5 – Stanisław Moniuszko, Polish composer (d. 1872) May 24 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901) May 27 George V of Hanover (d. 1878) Julia Ward Howe, American abolitionist and poet (d. 1910) May 31 Walt Whitman, American poet (d. 1892) William Worrall Mayo, English-American physician, chemist (d. 1911) June 5 – John Couch Adams, English astronomer (d. 1892) June 10 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877) June 12 – Charles Kingsley, English clergyman, historian, and novelist (d. 1875) June 20 – Jacques Offenbach, German-born French composer (d. 1880) June 29 – Nicolae Bălcescu, Wallachian revolutionary (d. 1852) July–December July 8 – Francis Leopold McClintock, Irish explorer and admiral in British Royal Navy (d. 1907) July 9 – Elias Howe, American inventor, sewing machine pioneer (d. 1867) July 19 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (d. 1890) July 26 – Justin Holland, American musician, civil rights activist (d. 1887) August 1 Richard Dadd, British painter (d. 1886) Herman Melville, American novelist (d. 1891) August 7 – Ion Emanuel Florescu, Romanian general and politician, two-time Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1893) August 9 – William Thomas Green Morton, American dentist who first administered ether (d.1868) August 13 – Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Irish mathematician, physicist (d. 1903) August 19 – Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1894) August 25 – Allan Pinkerton, American detective (d. 1884) August 26 – Prince Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (d. 1861) September 13 – Clara Schumann, German composer, pianist (d. 1896) September 17 – Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, 1st President of the South African Republic (d. 1901) September 18 – Léon Foucault, French physicist (d. 1868) September 20 – Théodore Chassériau, French painter (d. 1856) September 22 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897) September 23 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896) September 26 – Edward Watkin, English railway pioneer, politician (d. 1901) September 28 – Narcís Monturiol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer (d. 1885) October 2 – Théonie Rivière Mignot, American restauranter and businesswoman (d. 1875) October 16 – Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886) October 20 – The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábi Faith (d. 1850) November 4 – Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers, American admiral (d. 1892) November 9 – Annibale de Gasparis, Italian astronomer (d. 1892) November 22 – George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880) November 24 –