May 13 – Per Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad, Swedo-Finnish treasurer of Tavastia province, manor host, and paternal grandfather of President P. E. Svinhufvud (d. 1866) May 16 – Elizabeth Peabody, Transcendental activist, educator (d. 1894) June 1 Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857) George Sand, French writer (d. 1876) June 24 – Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854) July–December July 4 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. 1864) July 6 – Jerónimo Carrión, 8th President of Ecuador (d. 1873) July 14 – Ludwig von Benedek, Austrian general (d. 1881) July 20 – Richard Owen, English anatomist, paleontologist, and zoologist (d. 1892) July 23 – Jane Irwin Harrison, de facto First Lady of the United States (d. 1846) July 28 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872) September 5 – William Alexander Graham, United States Senator from North Carolina (1840–1843), Confederate States Senator (1864–1865) (d. 1875) September 8 – Eduard Mörike, German poet (d. 1875) September 11 – Mercedes Marín del Solar, international Chilean poet and reform educator (d. 1866) September 14 Louis Désiré Maigret, Roman Catholic bishop of Honolulu (d. 1882) John Gould, English ornithologist (d. 1881) October 18 – Mongkut, Rama IV, King of Siam (d. 1868) October 24 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891) November 18 – Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, Italian general and statesman (d. 1878) November 23 – Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869) December 7 – Noah Haynes Swayne, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1884) December 10 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851) December 13 – Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (d. 1873) December 16 – Viktor Bunyakovsky, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician (d. 1889) December 21 – Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881) December 23 – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (d. 1869) Date unknown Isaac Aaron, English-born physician, owner of the Australian Medical Journal and secretary of the Australian Medical Association (d. 1877) James Fannin, colonel in Army of the Republic of Texas and slave trader (executed 1836) Hortense Globensky-Prévost, Canadian heroine (d. 1873) Anne Hill, British-Canadian dancer and actor (d. 1896) Chō Kōran, Japanese poet and painter (d. 1879) Eugénie Luce, French educator (d. 1882) James Mackay, Scottish-born New Zealand politician (d. 1875) Deaths January–June January 4 – Charlotte Ramsey Lennox, British author and poet (b. 1727) January 15 – Dru Drury, English entomologist (b.