(d. 1867) April 12 – Beauchamp Seymour, British admiral (d. 1895) May 6 Edmund Colhoun, American admiral (d. 1897) Emilie Hammarskjöld, Swedish-American musician (d. 1854) May 8 – William Henry Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1885) May 16 – Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894) May 17 – Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopath (d. 1897) May 18 – Eduard von Pestel, Prussian military officer and German general (d. 1908) May 24 – Juan Bautista Topete, Spanish admiral and politician (d. 1885) June 2 – Ion C. Brătianu, 2-Time Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1891) June 16 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908) June 26 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine statesman, military figure, and author, 6th President of Argentina (d. 1906) July–December July 1 – Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, French archaeologist (d. 1904) July 2 – Sir Charles Tupper, 6th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915) July 6 – Edmund Pettus, American politician (d. 1907) July 9 George Cavendish-Bentinck, British Conservative politician (d. 1891) Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford, British parson (d. 1887) July 13 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate Civil War General, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 1877) July 16 – Mary Baker Eddy, American founder of Christian Science (d. 1910) July 17 – Friedrich Engelhorn, German industrialist and founder of BASF (d. 1902) July 18 – Lucy Smith Millikin, early Latter Day Saint and sister of Joseph Smith (d. 1882) July 18 – Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano, composer (d. 1910) July 24 – William Poole, infamous member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang (d. 1855) July 27 – George H. Cooper, United States Navy admiral (d. 1891) August 10 – Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905) August 16 – Arthur Cayley, English mathematician (d. 1895) August 21 – Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer (d. 1892) August 31 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (d. 1894) September 21 – Andrei Alexandrovich Popov, Russian admiral (d. 1898) September 28 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, African-American minister, politician (d. 1874) October 13 – Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician (d. 1902) November 7 – Andrea Debono, Maltese trader and explorer (d. 1871) November 11 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881) November 30 – Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902) December 1 – John M. B. Clitz, American admiral (d. 1897) December 12 – Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880) December 22 –