(d. 1843) May 22 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883) June 2 – Daniel Pollen, 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1896) June 8 – David Dixon Porter, American admiral (d. 1891) June 24 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman, reformer (d. 1887) July–December July 15 – George Peter Alexander Healy, American portrait painter (d. 1894) July 19 – Samuel M. Kier, American industrialist (d. 1874) August 5 – Ivar Aasen, Norwegian philologist (d. 1896) August 21 – Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891) August 29 – Henry Bergh, American founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1888) September 17 – John Sedgwick, Union Army General, American Civil War (d. 1864) September 24 – Gerardo Barrios, President of El Salvador (d. 1865) October 10 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901) October 17 – Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837) November 13 Kreeta Haapasalo, Finnish kantele-player, singer and folk musician (d. 1893) Allen G. Thurman, American politician (d. 1895) November 19 – Augusta Schrumpf, Norwegian actor (d. 1900) November 25 – Marie Jules Dupré, French admiral and colonial governor (d. 1881) November 30 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888) December 19 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d.1885) December 29 – Alexander Parkes, English metallurgist and inventor (d. 1890) Date unknown Juan Diéguez Olaverri, Guatemalan writer (d. 1866) John Miley, American Methodist theologian (d. 1895) John Thomas, English Victorian sculptor (d. 1862) Deaths January–June January 1 –Gioacchino Navarro, Maltese priest and poet (b. 1748) January 6 –Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764) January 15 –Anton Bernolák, Slovak linguist (b. 1762) January 20 –Christoph Martin Wieland, German writer (b. 1733) January 24 –George Clymer, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1739) February 13 –Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725) February 26 –Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1746) March 23 – Princess Augusta of Great Britain, elder sibling of King George III (b. 1737) April 3 – Friederike Brion, first great love of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (b. 1752) April 10 –Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician (b. 1736) April 19 – Benjamin Rush, Founding Father of the United States (b. 1746) April 27 –Zebulon Pike, American general (b. 1779) April 28 –Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745) April 29 –John Andrews, American clergyman, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, considered America's first scholar (b. 1746)