Births
- March 11 - Urbain Le Verrier, French astronomer (died 1877)
- March 30 - Robert Bunsen, German chemist (died 1899)
- July 13 - James Young, Scottish chemist (died 1883)
- October 25 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (died 1832)
- John Waterston, Scottish physicist and civil engineer (died 1883)
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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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