– Stephanos Skouloudis, 34th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1928) December 3 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916) December 3 – Octavia Hill, British social reformer (d. 1912) December 19 – Darinka Petrovic, Princess consort of Montenegro (d. 1892) December 20 – Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian, author (d. 1926) December 30 – Émile Loubet, 8th President of France (d. 1929) Date unknown Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Islamic teacher, writer (d. 1897) Bass Reeves, American lawman and first black deputy U.S. marshall (d. 1910) Deaths January–June January 3 – Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (b. 1759) January 5 – Anthony Van Egmond, leader in Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 (d. in jail) (b. 1778) January 12 – Joshua Humphreys, American naval architect (b. 1751) January 13 – John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1751) February 21 – Silvestre de Sacy, French linguist (b. 1758) February 24 – Christoph Johann von Medem, German courtier (b. 1763) March 7 – Robert Townsend (spy), American member of the Culper Spy Ring (b. 1753) March 13 – Poul Martin Møller, Danish philosopher (b. 1794) March 16 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician (b. 1773) March 23 – Michael Anckarsvärd, Swedish politician (b. 1742) April 3 – François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (b. 1780) April 6 – José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, Brazilian statesman, naturalist (b. 1763) April 9 – Piet Uys, Voortrekker leader (in battle) (b. 1797) May – Francisco Gómez, President of El Salvador (b. 1796) May 17 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French politician (b. 1754) May 19 – Sir Richard Hoare, English archaeologist (b. 1758) May 23 – Jan Willem Janssens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1762) June 14 – Maximilian von Montgelas, Bavarian statesman (b. 1759) July–December July 19 – Christmas Evans, Welsh preacher (b. 1766) August 1 – John Rodgers, American naval officer (b. 1772) August 17 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist for Mozart (b. 1749) August 21 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781) September 1 – William Clark, American explorer (b. 1770) September 15 – Alexandra Branitskaya, Russian political activist, courtier and businessperson (b. 1754) September 18 – Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington (b. 1752) September 27 – Bernard Courtois, French chemist (b. 1777) October 1 – Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist, industrialist (b. 1768) October 3 – Black Hawk, Sauk Indian chief, autobiographer (b. 1767) October 5 –