Hungary (d. 1890) March 14 – Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891) March 18 – Antoine Chanzy, French general and colonial governor (d. 1883) April 1 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, American soldier, politician and Confederate soldier (d. 1914) April 3 – William M. Tweed, American political boss (d. 1878) April 4 – Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German engineer (d. 1883) April 24 – Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, 27th President of Mexico (d. 1889) April 25 – Abdülmecid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861) May 2 – Emma Hardinge Britten (b. Emma Floyd), English-born spiritualist (d. 1899) May 9 – Sir Frederick Weld, 6th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1891) May 15 Youssef Bey Karam, Lebanese nationalist leader (d. 1889) Thomas Lake Harris, American poet (d. 1906) May 17 – Henry Eckford, British horticulturist (d. 1905) May 22 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889) May 26 – William Pryor Letchworth, American businessman, philanthropist, founder of Letchworth State Park, New York July 6 – Sophie Adlersparre, Swedish feminist (d. 1895) June 21 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873) July–December July 9 (date uncertain) – Phineas Gage, improbable American head injury survivor (d. 1860) July 18 Félix du Temple de la Croix, French Army Captain, aviation pioneer (d. 1890) Leonard Fulton Ross, American Civil War general (d. 1901) July 23 – Coventry Patmore, English poet (d. 1896) August 3 – Thomas Francis Meagher, American Civil War general (d. 1867) August 4 – Oliver P. Morton, American politician (d. 1877) August 5 – Eliza Tibbets, mother of the California orange industry (d. 1898) August 10 Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (d. 1886) Charles Keene, English artist, illustrator (d. 1891) August 11 – Charlotte Mary Yonge, English author (d. 1901) August 13 – Goldwin Smith, English historian (d. 1910) August 14 – Karel Miry, Belgian composer (d. 1889) August 15 – Orris S. Ferry, American Civil War general and politician (d. 1875) August 23 – Nil Izvorov, Bulgarian Orthodox priest and venerable (d. 1905) September 16 – Ludwik Teichmann, Polish anatomist (d. 1895) September 28 - Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (d. 1889) November 1 – Lascăr Catargiu, 4-time prime minister of Romania (d. 1899) November 8 – Joseph Monier, French inventor (d. 1906) November 16 – Henry G. Davis, American politician (d. 1916) November 18 – Charles H. Bell, American politician (d. 1893) November 21 – Andrzej Jerzy Mniszech, Polish painter (d. 1905)