Tissandier, French chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor (d. 1899) November 22 – Albert Huntington Chester, American geologist (d. 1903) November 24 – Ekaterina Junge, Russian painter (d. 1913) November 25 – Henry Ware Eliot, American industrialist (d. 1919) November 27 – Edwin C. Burleigh, American politician, 42nd governor of Maine (d. 1916) November 28 – Émile Bernard (composer), French composer (d. 1902) November 29 Gertrude Jekyll, English garden designer, writer and artist (d. 1932) Peter Birch-Reichenwald, Norwegian politician (d. 1898) November 30 – Martha Ripley, American physician (d. 1912) December December 3 – Sir William Gatacre, British general (d. 1906) December 11 – Robert Koch, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1910) December 24 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (d. 1886) December 28 – Prentiss Ingraham, American author of dime fiction (d. 1904) December 29 – Elisabeth of Wied, Queen consort of Romania (d. 1916) Date unknown – Adelaida Lukanina, Russian chemist (d. 1908) Deaths January–June January 11 Antoine Bournonville, French ballet dancer, choreographer (b. 1760) Francis Scott Key, American songwriter of The Star-Spangled Banner (b. 1779) February 13 – Nathaniel Chipman, United States federal judge (b. 1752) February 26 – Sir John Thomas Jones, British army general (b. 1783) March 3 – David Porter, American naval officer (b. 1780) March 21 Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (b. 1786) Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774) March 25 – Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish clergyman (b. 1813) March 27 – Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769) April 17 – Samuel Morey, American inventor (b. 1762) May 23 – Pierre Lorillard II, American businessman (b. 1764) May 28 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758) June 1 – William Abbot, English actor (b. 1798) June 7 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (b. 1770) July–December July 2 – Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755) July 7 – John Holmes, American politician (b. 1773) July 14 – Miguel de Álava, Spanish soldier, statesman (b. 1770) August – Sequoyah, Native American silversmith, creator of the Cherokee syllabary (b. c. 1767) July 22 – Marie-Madeleine Lachenais, Haitian de facto politician (b. 1778) July 25 – Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor of a waterproof fabric (b. 1766) September 4 – Howqua, Chinese merchant, "richest man in the world" (b. 1769) September 11 – Joseph Nicollet, French geographer (b. 1786) September 16 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur, politician