Births
- February 12 - Heinrich Lenz, physicist (died 1865)
- February 18 - Baron Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian pathologist (died 1878)
- March 8 - Alvan Clark, American telescope manufacturer (died 1887)
- April 5 - Matthias Schleiden, biologist (died 1881)
- May 9 - Hewett Watson, English biologist (died 1881)
- June 5 - Robert Schomburgk, explorer (died 1865)
- July 20 - Richard Owen, anatomist and paleontologist (died 1892)
- September 14 - John Gould, zoologist (died 1881)
- September 16 - Squire Whipple, civil engineer (died 1888)
- October 1 - William Stokes, physician (died 1878)
- October 24 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, physicist (died 1891)
- December 10 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, mathematician (died 1851)
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