Births
- March 12 - Joseph Prestwich, English geologist (died 1896)
- March 20 - Charles Vincent Walker, English telegraph engineer (died 1882)
- March 24 - Robert Gordon Latham, English ethnologist and philologist (died 1888)
- May 10 - William Henry Barlow, English railway civil engineer (died 1902)
- June 9 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (died 1910)
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