German physicist (d. 1887) March 19 – William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889) March 22 – Charles Pfizer, German-American chemist, co-founder of Pfizer (d. 1906) March 25 – Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900) March 26 – Julie-Victoire Daubié, French journalist (d. 1874) March 27 – Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, German physicist (d. 1914) April 6 – George Waterhouse, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906) April 13 – William Alexander, Anglican bishop, Primate of All Ireland (d. 1911) May 6 – Tokugawa Iesada, 13th shōgun of Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (d. 1858) May 9 – Jacob ben Moses Bachrach, noted Polish-born apologist of Rabbinic Judaism (d. 1896) May 23 – Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general, inventor, politician from Rhode Island (d. 1881) June 7 – Bernhard von Gudden, German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist (d. 1886) June 8 – Arthur von Mohrenheim, Russian diplomat (d. 1906) June 20 – George Edmund Street, British architect (d. 1881) June 26 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist, engineer (d. 1907) June 27 – Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney, American writer, reformer, philanthropist (d. 1904) June 28 – Paul Broca, French physician, anthropologist (d. 1880) July–December July 1 – Casto Méndez Núñez, Spanish admiral (d. 1869) July 12 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898) July 21 – Stanley Matthews, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1889) July 27 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (d. 1895) August 3 – William Burnham Woods, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1887) August 7 – Gideon T. Stewart, American temperance movement leader (d. 1907) September 4 Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (d. 1896) Phoebe Cary, American poet, sister to Alice Cary (1820–1871) (d. 1871) September 27 – Benjamin Apthorp Gould, American astronomer (d. 1896) October 2 – Henry C. Lord, American railroad executive (d. 1884) October 5 – Henry Chadwick, English-born American baseball writer, historian (d. 1908) October 18 – Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Spanish author (d. 1905) October 26 – Edward Cooper, 83rd Mayor of New York City (d. 1905) October 27 – Edward Maitland, British writer (d. 1897) November 24 – Frederick Miller, German-born American brewer, businessman (d. 1888) December 10 – George MacDonald, Scottish writer (d. 1905) December 11 – Jonathan Letterman, American surgeon, "Father of Battlefield Medicine" (d. 1872) December 14 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)