architect, engineer (d. 1884) Heinrich Geißler, German physicist (d. 1879) May 30 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876) June 21– Paweł Bryliński, Polish sculptor (d. 1890) July–December July 3 – Ferdinand Didrichsen, Danish botanist, physicist (d. 1887) July 11 – Louis Melsens, Belgian chemist and physicist (d. 1886) July 19 Samuel Colt, American gun maker (d. 1862) Ludwig von Gablenz, Austrian general (d. 1874) August 8 – Esther Morris, American suffragist, judge (d. 1902) August 10 – Henri Nestlé, German-born Swiss chocolate magnate (d. 1890) August 13 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874) August 23 – James Roosevelt Bayley, American bishop (d. 1877) August 28 – Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873) September 2 – Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist, historian (d. 1896) September 3 – James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician (d. 1897) September 6 – George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian lawyer, politician (d. 1873) September 7 – William Butterfield, British architect (d. 1900) September 8 – Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer, historian (d. 1874) September 27 – Daniel Kirkwood, American astronomer (d. 1895) October 1 – Josefina Deland, Swedish women's rights activist (d. 1890) October 4 – Jean-François Millet, French painter (d. 1875) October 7 – Susanna Dickinson, survivor of the Alamo (d. 1883) October 15 – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer (d. 1841) November 6 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian musical instrument maker, inventor (d. 1894) November 13 – Joseph Hooker, American general (d. 1879) November 22 – Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893) November 25 – Julius von Mayer, German physician, physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics (d. 1878) November 26 – Luise Aston, German author, feminist (d. 1871) December 12 – Juan Prim, 1st Marquis of los Castillejos, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1870) December 13 – Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse, matron of nursing in that country (d. 1880) December 18 – Sarah T. Bolton, née Sarah Tittle Barrett, American poet (d. 1893) Date unknown Táhirih, Persian Bahá'í heroine (d. 1852) Pavlos Kalligas, Greek jurist, politician (d. 1896) Antoinette Nording, Swedish perfume entrepreneur (d. 1887) Deaths January–June January 7 – Ira Allen, founder of Vermont, leader of the Green Mountain Boys (b. 1751) January 16 – Friedrich Karl Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe, Austrian general (b. 1752) January 26 – Manuel do Cenáculo, Portuguese prelate and antiquarian (b. 1724) January 27 Philip Astley, English circus promoter (b. 1742) Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b.