Births
- April 13 - Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer and inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse (died 1868).
- December 26 - Mary Somerville, British scientific writer (died 1872).
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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