Births
- February 6 - Charles Wheatstone, inventor (died 1875)
- August 5 - Niels Henrik Abel, mathematician (died 1829)
- October 10 - Hugh Miller, geologist (died 1856)
- December 15 - János Bolyai, mathematician (died 1860)
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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.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)