Kalevala (d. 1884) May 2 – Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist, physicist (d. 1870) May 26 – Karl Ferdinand Ranke, German educator (d. 1876) June 12 – Harriet Martineau, British social theorist, writer (d. 1876) July–December July 5 (June 23 O.S.) – Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855) July 24 – Alexandre Dumas, French author (d. 1870) July 26 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855) August 4 – Joseph Bonnell, hero of the Texas Revolution (d. 1840) August 5 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829) August 31 – Karl von Urban, Austrian field marshal (d. 1877) September 19 – Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian politician (d. 1894) September 30 – Antoine Jérôme Balard, French chemist (d. 1876) October 31 – Benoît Fourneyron, French engineer (d. 1867) November 9 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837) November 19 – Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866) December 15 – János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1860) December 23 – Sara Coleridge, British scholar (d. 1852) Date unknown Friedrich Hohe, German lithographer, painter (d. 1870) Emma Fürstenhoff, Swedish florist (d. 1871) Deaths January–June February 2 – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713) February 3 – Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes, Spanish statesman, writer (b. 1723) February 10 – Samuel Phillips, Jr., Massachusetts lieutenant governor (b. 1752) February 26 – Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (b. 1718) April 13 – Charles Moss, British bishop (b. 1711) April 18 – Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731) April 26 – Edmund Nelson (clergyman), English priest (b. 1722) May 9 – Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, Swedish ambassador (b. 1749) May 22 – Martha Washington, first First Lady of the United States (b. 1731) July–December July 6 – Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, Congressman from Virginia, and general (b. 1736) July 22 – Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and pathologist (b. 1771) July 24 – Joseph Ducreux, French noble, portrait painter, pastelist, miniaturist, and engraver (b. 1735) July 25 – Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, Archbishop of Mainz (b. 1719) August 10 – Franz Aepinus, German philosopher (b. 1724) August 12 – Louis Lebègue Duportail French military leader in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (b. 1743) September 19 – Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily (b. 1773) September 26 – Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and soldier (b. 1754) October 5 – Suzanne Bélair, Haitian national heroine (b.