– Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk (born 1771) 27 April – Herbert Spencer, philosopher, political theorist and civil engineer (died 1903) 4 May – Joseph Whitaker, publisher (died 1895) 12 May – Florence Nightingale, nurse (died 1910) 22 May – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 6th Baronet, politician (died 1885) 21 June – James Halliwell-Phillipps, bibliophile (died 1889) 22 June – Charles Lowder, Anglo-Catholic priest (died 1880) 5 July – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist (died 1872) 9 July – John Wright Oakes, landscape painter (died 1887) 25 July – Henry Doulton, potter (died 1897) 6 August – Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, Scottish-born entrepreneur, statesman and philanthropist (died 1914 in Canada) 13 August – George Grove, musicologist, Biblical scholar and civil engineer (died 1900) 23 November – Isaac Todhunter, mathematician (died 1884) 3 December – John Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice (died 1894) 10 December – Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (died 1821) Deaths 23 January – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (born 1767) 29 January – King George III of the United Kingdom (born 1738) 5 February – William Drennan, Irish political radical, poet and physician (born 1754) 11 March – Benjamin West, painter (born 1738 in the Province of Pennsylvania) 2 April – Thomas Brown, philosopher and poet (born 1778) 1 May – Arthur Thistlewood, conspirator (born 1774) 30 May – William Bradley, Britain's tallest ever man (born 1787) 19 June – Sir Joseph Banks, naturalist and botanist (born 1743) 3 September – Benjamin Henry Latrobe, architect in the United States (born 1764) 4 September – Timothy Brown, banker, merchant and radical (born 1743/4) 11 October – James Keir, Scottish geologist, chemist and industrialist (born 1735) See also 1820 in Scotland References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom