November 5 – Luís Carlos Martins Pena, Brazilian playwright (d. 1848) November 12 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (d. 1902) November 20 – Maria Cederschiöld, Swedish deaconess (d. 1892) December 2 – Juan Javier Espinosa, 9th President of Ecuador (d. 1870) December 8 – Adolph Menzel, German artist, painter (d. 1905) December 10 – Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace, English computer pioneer, daughter of Lord Byron (d. 1852) December 13 – Pálné Veres, Hungarian educator, women's rights activist (d. 1895) December 21 – Thomas Couture, French painter (d. 1879) December 30 – Joseph Toynbee, English otologist (d. 1866) December 31 – George Meade, American general (d. 1872) Date unknown William Farquharson Burnett, British commodore (d. 1863) Deaths January–June January 8 – Edward Pakenham, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1778) January 16 – Emma, Lady Hamilton, politically active British courtesan, lover of Horatio Nelson (b. 1765) January 24 – Sir Charles Malet, 1st Baronet, British East India Company official (b. 1752) February 9 – Ellen Hutchins, Irish botanist (b. 1785) February 22 – Smithson Tennant, English chemist, discovered the elements iridium and osmium (b. 1761) February 24 – Robert Fulton, American inventor (b. 1765) February 26 – Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Austrian general (b. 1737) March 4 – Frances Abington, English actress (b. 1737) March 5 – Franz Mesmer, German developer of animal magnetism (b. 1734) April 3 – José de Córdoba y Ramos, Spanish explorer and naval commander (b. 1732) April 21 – Joseph Winston, American patriot, Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1746) May 11 – Aletta Haniel, German business person (b. 1742) May 25 – Domenico Puccini, Italian composer (b. 1772) June 1 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b. 1753) June 16 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German noble, general (killed in battle) (b. 1771) June 17 Louis-Michel Letort de Lorville, French general (b. 1773) June 18 (killed at the Battle of Waterloo): Jean-Jacques Desvaux de Saint-Maurice, French general (b. 1775) Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766) Sir Alexander Gordon, British staff officer (b. 1786) Claude-Étienne Michel, French general (b. 1772) Sir Thomas Picton, British general (b. 1758) Sir William Ponsonby, British general (b. 1772) Jean Baptiste van Merlen, Dutch-Belgian general (b. 1773) June 26 – William Howe De Lancey, British quartermaster-general (mortally wounded at Waterloo) (b. 1778) June 27 – Jean-Baptiste Girard, French general (mortally wounded at Ligny) (b.