Births
- January - James Meadows Rendel, English civil engineer (died 1856)
- May 21 - Mary Anning, English paleontologist (died 1847)
- June 18 - Prosper Ménière, French physician (died 1862)
- September 8 - James Bowman Lindsay, Scottish inventor (died 1862)
- December 20 - Nicholas Callan, Irish physicist (died 1864)
- December 30 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist (died 1834)
- December (prob.) - Maria Ann Sherwood, English-born horticulturalist (died 1870)
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