Deaths
- January 6 - Louis Braille (born 1809), French inventor.
- August 15 - Johan Gadolin (born 1760), Finnish chemist.
- November 10 - Gideon Mantell (born 1790), English paleontologist.
- November 27 - Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace (born 1815), English computing pioneer.
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