German composer (d. 1847) February 12 Charles Darwin, British naturalist (d. 1882) Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865) February 15 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884) February 23 – William Sprague, American minister and politician from Michigan (d. 1868) February 24 – Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1885) March 2 – Abel Douay, French general (d. 1870) March 15 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 2-time President of Liberia (d. 1876) March 24 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (d. 1882) March 27 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French civic planner (d. 1891) March 29 – Bettino Ricasoli, Italian statesman (d. 1880) April 1 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (d. 1852) April 15 – Hermann Grassmann, Prussian mathematician (d. 1877) April 20 – James David Forbes, Scottish physicist, geologist, inventor (d. 1868) May 20 – Albert Newsam, American artist (d. 1864) May 22 – Constantin A. Crețulescu, 7th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1884) May 23 – Hugo von Kirchbach, Prussian general (d. 1887) June 4 Columbus Delano, American statesman (d. 1896) John Henry Pratt, English clergyman and mathematician (d. 1871) June 8 – Richard Wigginton Thompson, American politician (d. 1900) June 11 – Juan Antonio Pezet, Peruvian general and politician, President of Peru (d. 1879) June 18 – Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch, American minister, hymn writer (d 1870) June 20 – Isaak August Dorner, German theologian (d. 1884) June 27 – François Certain de Canrobert, French general, Marshal of France (d. 1895) July–December July 2 – John R. Goldsborough, United States Navy commodore (d. 1877) July 9 – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German-Jewish anatomist, physician (d. 1885) July 16 – Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz, Prussian general (d. 1877) July 31 – Francis Walker, English entomologist (d. 1874) August 6 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British poet (d. 1892) August 8 – Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (d. 1872) August 29 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician, writer (d. 1894) September 4 – Manuel Montt, 5th President of Chile (d. 1880) September 12 – Julius von Bose, Prussian general (d. 1894) September 27 – Raphael Semmes, American and Confederate naval officer (d. 1877) October 22 – Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889) November 4 – Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1874) November 10 – David Einhorn (rabbi), German-American abolitionist (d. 1879) November 20 – Gustav Koerner, German-born revolutionary, journalist,