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[[File:Hambacher Fest 1832.jpg|thumb|right|[[May 27]]: start of the [[Hambach Festival]]]]

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== Events ==

=== January–March ===
* [[January 6]] – Abolitionist [[William Lloyd Garrison]] founds the [[New-England Anti-Slavery Society]]. 
* [[January 13]] – The [[Baptist war|Christmas Rebellion]] of slaves is brought to an end in [[Jamaica]], after the island's white planters organize militias and the British Army sends companies of the 84th regiment to enforce martial law.  More than 300 of the slave rebels will be publicly hanged for their part in the destruction.<ref>{{cite book|first=Andre C.|last=Drainville|title=A History of World Order and Resistance: The Making and Unmaking of Global Subjects|publisher=Routledge|year=2013}}</ref>
* [[February 6]] – The [[Swan River Colony]] is renamed [[Western Australia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://poi-australia.com.au/swan-river-colony-proclaimed/|title=Swan River Colony Proclaimed|date=May 2, 1829|publisher=POI Australia|language=English|accessdate=13 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://statelibrarynsw.tumblr.com/post/156855938896/on-this-day-6th-february-1832-the-swan-river|title=On this day, 6th February 1832|publisher=State Library of New South Wales|language=English|accessdate=13 February 2021}}</ref>
* [[February 9]] – The [[Florida]] Legislative Council grants a city charter for [[Jacksonville, Florida]].
* [[February 12]]
** [[Ecuador]] annexes the [[Galápagos Islands]].
** A [[cholera]] [[epidemic]] in London claims at least 3,000 lives; the contagion spreads to France and North America later this year.<!-- maybe also other countries, but these were the only ones mentioned in different places in this article -->
* [[February 28]] – [[Charles Darwin]] and the crew of {{HMS|Beagle}} arrive at [[South America]] for the first time.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Adrian|last1=Desmond|first2=James|last2=Moore|title=Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|year=1994|page=119}}</ref>
* [[March 24]] – In [[Hiram, Ohio]], a group of men beat, [[tar and feather]] [[Mormon]] leader [[Joseph Smith]].

=== April–June ===
* [[April 6]] – The [[Black Hawk War]] begins in the United States.
* [[May 7]] – The [[Treaty of London, 1832|Treaty of London]] creates an independent [[Kingdom of Greece (Wittelsbach)|Kingdom of Greece]]. [[Otto of Greece|Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria]], is chosen King; thus begins the [[history of modern Greece]].
* [[May 10]] – The [[Egyptians]], aided by [[Maronites]], seize [[Acre, Israel|Acre]] from the [[Ottoman Empire]] after a 7-month [[siege]].
* [[May 11]] – Greece is recognized as a sovereign nation; the [[Treaty of Constantinople (1832)|Treaty of Constantinople]] ends the [[Greek War of Independence]] in [[July]].
* [[May 16]] – [[Juan Godoy]] discovers the rich silver outcrops of [[Chañarcillo]] sparking the [[Chilean silver rush]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Mitos de Chile: Enciclopedia de seres, apariciones y encantos|last=Montecino Aguirre|first=Sonia|publisher=[[Catalonia (publisher)|Catalonia]] |year=2015|isbn=978-956-324-375-8 |pages=47–48|chapter=Alicanto |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Historia de Chile|language=es|trans-title=History of Chile|editor1-last=Villalobos Rivera|editor1-first=Sergio|editor-link1=Sergio Villalobos|editor2-last=Silva G.|editor2-first=Osvaldo|editor-link2=Osvaldo Silva|editor3-last=Silva V.|editor3-first=Fernando|editor4-last=Patricio|editor4-first=Estelle M.|year=1995|orig-year=1974|publisher=[[Editorial Universitaria]]|location=[[Santiago de Chile]]|pages=469–472}}</ref>
* [[May 30]]
** The [[Hambacher Fest]], a demonstration for [[civil liberties]] and national unity in Germany, ends with no result.
** The [[Rideau Canal]] in eastern [[Ontario]] (Canada) is opened.
* [[June 5]]–[[June 6|6]] – The [[June Rebellion]] in France, anti-[[monarchist]] riots led chiefly by students, breaks out in [[Paris]].
* [[June 7]] – The [[Reform Act 1832|Reform Act]] receives [[royal assent]] after passage by the British Parliament, reforming the electoral system and setting uniform law for voting rights in [[England]] and [[Wales]], though not in Scotland or Ireland.
* [[June 9]] – The [[Strasburg Rail Road]] is incorporated by the Pennsylvania State Legislature, making it the oldest continuously operating railroad in the Western Hemisphere.

=== July–September ===
* [[July 1]] – Global [[Conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]] [[Jardine Matheson]] is founded in Canton (modern day [[Guangzhou]]) in [[Qing dynasty]] China by Scottish merchants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jardines.com/the-group/history/1830-1869.html|title=Early Trading Years 1830–1869|access-date=2021-01-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110626110209/http://www.jardines.com/the-group/history/1870-1899.html|publisher=Jardines|archive-date=2011-06-26|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[July 2]] – [[André-Michel Guerry]] presents his ''Essay on moral statistics of France'' to the French Academy of Sciences, a significant step in the founding of empirical [[social science]].
* [[July 4]] – [[Durham University]] is founded in the north of England by an act of Parliament given royal assent by King William IV.<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of Durham {{!}} Science Museum Group Collection |url=https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/ap20254/university-of-durham |access-date=2025-07-17 |website=collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 9]] – The [[Commissioner of Indian Affairs]] post is created within the [[United States Department of War]].
* [[July 10]] – The [[United States Coast and Geodetic Survey|United States Survey of the Coast]] is revived within the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Department of the Treasury]].
* [[August 2]] – The [[Bad Axe Massacre]] ends the last major Native American rebellion east of the Mississippi in the United States.
* [[August 7]] – [[William Howley]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], has his coach attacked by an angry mob on his first official visit to [[Canterbury]] because of his opposition to the Reform Act in the United Kingdom.
* [[August 9]] – [[Leopold I of Belgium]] marries the daughter of the French king [[Louise of Orléans]] in a [[dynastic marriage]] at the [[Château de Compiègne]]
* [[August 27]] – [[Black Hawk (Sauk leader)]] surrenders to the United States authorities, ending the [[Black Hawk War]].
* [[September 22]] – [[Qasim al-Ahmad]] is appointed as the new Ottoman Governor (''[[mutasallim]]'') of [[Jerusalem]] (Kudüs), after Sultan [[Mahmud II]] dismisses Muhammad Said Agha.<ref>{{cite book|first=Judith Mendelsohn|last=Rood|title=Sacred Law In The Holy City: The Khedival Challenge To The Ottomans As Seen From Jerusalem, 1829-1841|publisher=Brill|year=2004|page=92}}</ref>

=== October–December ===
* [[October 4]] – [[Otto of Greece|Prince Otto of Bavaria]], the second oldest son of [[Ludwig I of Bavaria|King Ludwig I]], is selected by Europe's major powers to become Othon, the first [[King of Greece]], after the Hellenic nation's reacquisition of independence.<ref>{{cite book|first=Carl|last=Schmitt|title=Constitutional Theory|publisher=Duke University Press|year=2008|page=396}}</ref>
* [[October 20]] – Principal Chief [[Levi Colbert]] (''Itawamba Mingo'') and other leaders of the [[Chickasaw Nation]] of American Indians sign the [[Treaty of Pontotoc Creek]] with the United States, ceding their remaining 9,400 square miles of land to the U.S., in return for a promise that they will receive all proceeds of sales of the land by the federal government to private owners, along with expenses for relocation and food and supplies for one year.  The area ceded includes the entire northern one-sixth of the state of Mississippi.<ref>{{cite book| first=Westley F. Jr. |last=Busbee|title=Mississippi: A History|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2014|page=84}}</ref>
*[[October 29]] - [[Alpha Delta Phi]], the fifth-oldest<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oldest.org/culture/fraternities-north-america/ |title=10 Oldest College Fraternities|date=17 March 2025 |accessdate=2025-08-01}}</ref> college fraternity, is founded as a literary society by [[Samuel Eells]] at [[Hamilton College]] in Clinton, New York.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.alphadeltaphi.org/history |title=HISTORY OF THE ALPHA DELTA PHI
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* [[November 21]] – [[Wabash College]], a small, private, liberal arts college for men, is founded.
* [[November 24]] – [[Nullification Crisis]]: The U.S. state of [[South Carolina]] passes the [[Ordinance of Nullification]], challenging the power of the U.S. federal government, by declaring that it will not enforce national tariffs signed into law in [[1828]] and 1832. 
* [[December 3]] – [[1832 United States presidential election]]: [[Andrew Jackson]] is re-elected president.
* [[December 4]] – [[Siege of Antwerp (1832)|Siege of Antwerp]]: The last remaining [[Netherlands|Dutch]] stronghold, [[Antwerp Citadel]], comes under French attack in the aftermath of the [[Belgian Revolution]].
* [[December 10]] – U.S. President [[Andrew Jackson]] responds to the [[Nullification Crisis]] by threatening to send the U.S. Army and Navy into South Carolina if it does not comply.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Smith, Courtney|title=American History through its Greatest Speeches: A Documentary History of the United States|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2016|page=32}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] – [[Battle of Konya]]: The [[Egypt]]ians defeat the main [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] army in central [[Anatolia]].
* [[December 23]] – The [[Siege of Antwerp (1832)|Siege of Antwerp]] ends with the Dutch garrison losing the citadel.
* [[December 28]] – [[John C. Calhoun]] becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.

=== Date unknown ===
* [[George Catlin]] starts to live among the [[Sioux]] in the [[Dakota Territory]].
* The first [[Baedeker]] guidebook, ''Voyage du Rhin de Mayence à Cologne'', is published in [[Koblenz]].
* Publication begins (posthumously) of [[Carl von Clausewitz]]'s ''Vom Kriege'' ("''[[On War]]''").
* The [[Buffalo, New York|City of Buffalo]] in New York is incorporated.
* The [[Cumberland and Oxford Canal]] connects the largest lakes of southern [[Maine]] with the seaport of [[Portland, Maine]].<ref>{{cite book|title=My First Sixty Years in Harrison, Maine|last=Ward|first=Ernest E.|publisher=Cardinal Printing|year=1967|page=7}}</ref>
* Global [[watch]] brand [[Longines]] is founded in [[Switzerland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.longines.com/company/history/19th/1832|title=1832|work=History|publisher=Longines|access-date=2021-01-10}}</ref>
* The first commutator DC [[electric motor]], capable of turning machinery, is demonstrated by [[William Sturgeon]] in London.

== Births ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:Édouard Manet-crop.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Édouard Manet]]]]
[[File:Wilhelm Busch.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Wilhelm Busch]]]]
[[File:Lucretia Garfield - Brady-Handy.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Lucretia Garfield]]]]
[[File:T._Muthuswamy_Iyer.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[T. Muthuswamy Iyer]]]]
* [[January 1]] 
** [[Tom Jeffords]], US Army scout and Indian agent (d. [[1914]])
** [[Charles N. Felton]], American banker and politician (d. [[1914]])
* [[January 4]]  
** [[George Tryon|Sir George Tryon]], British admiral (d. [[1893]])
** [[Antoine Chanzy]], French general and governor of [[French Algeria|Algeria]] (d. [[1883]])
* [[January 6]] – [[Gustave Doré]], French painter, sculptor (d. [[1883]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Horatio Alger, Jr.]], American Unitarian minister, author (d. [[1899]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Carl Hubert von Wendt]], German landowner and politician (d. [[1903]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Alonzo B. Cornell]], 27th Governor of New York (d. [[1904]])
* [[January 23]] 
** [[Édouard Manet]], French painter (d. [[1883]])
** [[Charlotte Pousette]], Swedish stage actress (d. [[1877]])
* [[January 24]] 
** [[Joseph Hodges Choate]], American lawyer and diplomat (d. 1917)
** [[Albert Arnz]], German landscape painter (d. [[1914]])
* [[January 25]]  
** [[Ivan Shishkin]], Russian landscape painter (d. [[1898]])
** [[Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff]], [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussian]] general and writer (d. [[1891]])
* [[January 26]] – [[George Shiras Jr.]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1924]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Lewis Carroll]], English author (d. [[1898]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Charles John Stanley Gough|Sir Charles Gough]], British general, Victoria Cross recipient (d. [[1912]])
* [[January 28]] 
** [[T. Muthuswamy Iyer]], Lawyer, first Indian Judge of the Madras high court (d. [[1895]])
** [[Franz Wüllner]], German composer and conductor (d. [[1902]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Wilhelm Böckmann]], German architect (d. [[1902]])
* [[January 30]] – [[Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain]], [[Duchess of Montpensier]] (d. [[1897]])
* [[February 6]] – [[John B. Gordon]], attorney, slaveholding [[Plantation|planter]], general in the [[Confederate States Army]], and politician (d. [[1904]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Adele Spitzeder]], German actress, folk singer and confidence trickster (d. [[1895]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Octave Chanute]], French-American engineer, aviation pioneer (d. [[1910]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Louis Maurer]], [[German Americans|German-American]] [[lithographer]], and the father of painter [[Alfred Henry Maurer]] (d. [[1932]])
* [[February 26]] – [[John George Nicolay]], German-American author, diplomat, and private secretary to [[Abraham Lincoln]] (d. [[1901]])
* [[March 4]] – [[Samuel Colman]], American painter, interior designer, and writer (d. [[1920]])
* [[March 7]] – [[Carl Neumann]], German [[mathematician]] (d. [[1925]])
* [[March 10]] – [[John Owen Dominis]], [[List of Hawaiian consorts|prince consort]] of the [[Kingdom of Hawai{{okina}}i]] as the husband of Queen [[Lili{{okina}}uokalani]] (d. [[1891]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Moncure D. Conway]], American [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]] minister and radical writer (d. [[1907]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Ármin Vámbéry]], Hungarian [[Turkology|Turkologist]] and traveler (d. [[1913]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Charles Altamont Doyle]], illustrator, watercolourist and civil servant (d. [[1893]])
* [[March 27]] – [[William Quiller Orchardson]], Scottish portraitist (d. [[1910]])
* [[April 3]] – [[James Sewall Reed]], American soldier (d. [[1864]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Fedor Flinzer]], German author, educator and illustrator (d. [[1911]])
* [[April 5]] – [[Jules Ferry]], French premier (d. [[1893]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Ferdinand Kittel]], German missionary, [[Lutheran]] priest and [[indologist]] (d. [[1903]])
* [[April 8]] 
** [[Howell Edmunds Jackson]], American politician, [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1895]])
** [[Alfred von Waldersee]], German [[field marshal]] (d. [[1904]])
* [[April 14]]
** [[Wilhelm Busch]], German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter (d. [[1908]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.archion.de/de/news/magazin/persoenlichkeiten/wilhelm-busch/|title="Dieses war der erste Streich, Doch der zweite folgt sogleich" - Wilhelm Busch|date=14 April 2022|publisher=Archion|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Wann hatte Wilhelm Busch wirklich Geburtstag?|first=Carol|last=Galway|journal=Germanic Notes and Reviews|year=2000|volume=31|number=1|issn=0016-8882|pages=14–18|trans-title=When was Wilhelm Busch's birthday, really?}}</ref>
** [[James H. Ledlie]], civil engineer for [[United States|American]] railroads and a general in the [[Union Army]] (d. [[1882]])
* [[April 15]] – [[John Irwin (admiral)|John Irwin]], American admiral (d. [[1901]])
* [[April 17]] – [[Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage|Robert Loyd-Lindsay]], British soldier, politician, and philanthropist (d. [[1901]])
* [[April 19]]
** [[José Echegaray]], Spanish writer, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1916]])
** [[Lucretia Garfield]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1918]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Heinrich Julius Holtzmann]], German Protestant theologian (d. [[1910]])
* [[May 14]] 
** [[Charles Peace]], English criminal (d. [[1879]])
** [[Rudolf Lipschitz]], German mathematician (d. [[1903]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Garretson W. Gibson]], 14th [[president of Liberia]] (d. [[1910]])
* [[May 21]] 
** [[Hudson Taylor]], English founder of the [[China Inland Mission]] (d. [[1905]])
** [[Edwin Warren Moïse (born 1832)|Edwin Warren Moïse]], Jewish-American lawyer, Confederate officer, and Adjutant-General from [[South Carolina]] (d. [[1902]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Laura Gundersen]], Norwegian actor (d. [[1898]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Michel Bréal]], French [[philologist]] (d. [[1915]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Alexandr Aksakov]], Russian writer (d. [[1903]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line|Heinrich XIV]], Prince Reuss Younger Line from 1867 to 1913 (d. [[1913]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Martha Waldron Janes]], American minister, suffragist, columnist (d. unknown)
* [[June 10]] – [[Nicolaus Otto]], German engineer (d. [[1891]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Jules Vallès]], French journalist, author, and left-wing political activist (d. [[1885]])
* [[June 12]] – [[Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal]], Haitian politician, 12th [[President of Haiti]] (d. [[1905]])
* [[June 17]] – Sir [[William Crookes]], English chemist, physicist (d. [[1919]])
* [[June 21]] 
** [[Louise Rayner]], British [[Watercolour painting|watercolour]] [[artist]] (d. [[1924]])
** [[Joseph Rainey]], American politician, first [[black person]] in the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] (d. [[1887]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Gustav Jäger (naturalist)|Gustav Jäger]], German [[Natural history|naturalist]] and [[hygienist]] (d. [[1917]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès|Rafqa Pietra Chobok]], [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] [[Maronite Church|Maronite]] nun who was [[Canonization|canonized]] (d. [[1914]])

=== July–December ===
[[File:Caroline Harrison.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Caroline Harrison]]]]
[[File:Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld by Axel Jungstedt 1902.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld]]]]
* [[July 1]] – [[Karl Binz]], German physician and [[pharmacologist]] (d. [[1913]])
* [[July 5]] – [[Pavel Chistyakov]], Russian painter and art teacher (d. [[1919]])
* [[July 6]] – Emperor [[Maximilian I of Mexico]] (d. [[1867]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Alvan Graham Clark]], American [[astronomer]] and [[telescope]]-maker (d. [[1897]])
* [[July 11]] – [[Charilaos Trikoupis]], 7-time [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (d. [[1896]])
* [[July 19]] – [[Julius von Verdy du Vernois]], German [[General officer|general]] and staff officer (d. [[1910]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Colin Archer]], Norwegian [[Naval architecture|naval architect]] and [[Shipbuilding|shipbuilder]] (d. [[1921]])
* [[July 26]] – [[Joseph P. Fyffe]], American admiral (d. [[1896]])
* [[July 29]] – [[Luigi Palma di Cesnola]], Italian-American soldier, diplomat and archaeologist (d. [[1904]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Henry Steel Olcott]], American officer (d. [[1907]])
* [[August 3]] – [[Edward Wilmot Blyden]], [[Americo-Liberian]] educator, writer, diplomat, and politician (d. [[1912]])
* [[August 7]] – [[Max Lange]], German chess player and [[Chess problem|problem composer]] (d. [[1899]])
* [[August 8]] – [[George, King of Saxony]] (d. [[1904]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Alexander von Monts]], officer in the [[Prussian Navy]] and later the [[German Imperial Navy]] (d. [[1889]])
* [[August 13]] – [[George F. Robinson]], American soldier (d. [[1907]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Wilhelm Wundt]], German physiologist, philosopher, and professor, and pioneer of modern psychology (d. [[1920]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Thaddeus S. C. Lowe]], American aeronaut, scientist and inventor (d. [[1913]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Charles DeRudio]], [[Italian people|Italian]] aristocrat and [[U.S. Army]] officer (d. [[1910]])
* [[September 1]] – [[Hermann Steudner]], botanist and an explorer of Africa (d.[[1863]])
* [[September 10]] – [[Randall L. Gibson]], American politician and general in the [[Confederate States Army|Confederate Army]] (d. [[1892]])
* [[September 14]] – [[Henry Steers (1832)|Henry Steers]], son of [[James Rich Steers]], nephew of [[George Steers]], proprietor of Henry Steers' Ship Yard (d. [[1903]])
* [[September 20]] – [[Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau]] (d. [[1905]])
* [[September 21]] – [[Louis Paul Cailletet]], French [[physicist]] and inventor (d. [[1913]])
* [[September 22]] – [[John Smith (nephew of Joseph Smith)|John Smith]], nephew of [[Joseph Smith]], the founder of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]] and the fifth [[Presiding Patriarch]] of LDS Church (d. [[1911]])
* [[September 25]] – [[William Le Baron Jenney]], American [[architect]] and [[engineer]](d. [[1907]])
* [[September 30]] – [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts]], British Victorian era general (d. [[1914]])
* [[October 1]] 
** [[Caroline Harrison]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1892]])
** [[Henry Clay Work]], [[Americans|American]] [[composer]] and [[songwriter]] (d. [[1884]])
* [[October 2]] 
** [[Edward Burnett Tylor|Sir Edward Tylor]], English anthropologist (d. [[1917]])
** [[Julius von Sachs]], German [[botanist]] (d. [[1897]])
* [[October 3]] – [[Richard Meade, 4th Earl of Clanwilliam|Richard Meade, Lord Gilford]], British admiral (d. [[1907]])
* [[October 4]] – [[Thorborg Rappe]], Swedish social reformer (d. [[1902]])
* [[October 6]]
** [[August Eisenlohr]], German egyptologist (d. [[1902 in Germany|1902]])
** [[Christian Mali]], German painter and art professor (d. [[1906 in Germany|1906]])
* [[October 7]] – [[William Thomas Blanford]], English geologist and naturalist (d. [[1905]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Joe Cain]], American parade organizer for [[Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama]] (d. [[1904]])
* [[October 15]] - [[Hugh Ryves Baker]], Church of England priest and founder of [[Jubilee Temple|St Michael's Woolwich]] (d. [[1898]])
* [[October 16]] – [[George Crockett Strong]], [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] [[Brigadier general (United States)|brigadier general]] in the [[American Civil War]](d. [[1863]])
* [[October 21]] – [[Gustav Langenscheidt]], German publisher (died [[1895 in Germany|1895]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Robert Eitner]], German musicologist, researcher and bibliographer (died [[1905 in Germany|1905]])
* [[October 23]]
** [[Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia]], fourth son and seventh child of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia (d. [[1909]])
** [[Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg]], Finnish priest and father of [[Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg|K. J. Ståhlberg]], the first [[President of Finland]] (d. [[1873]])<ref>[http://www.kirjastovirma.fi/henkilogalleria/St%C3%A5hlberg_Johan_Gabriel Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg – KirjastoVirma] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624160714/https://www.kirjastovirma.fi/henkilogalleria/St%C3%A5hlberg_Johan_Gabriel |date=June 24, 2021 }} (in Finnish)</ref>
** [[William Hulbert]], American [[professional baseball]] executive who was one of the founders of the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] (d. [[1882]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Grand duke|Grand Duke]] [[Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia|Michael Nikolaevich of Russia]], Russian noble, child of Emperor [[Nicholas I of Russia|Nicholas I]] and [[Charlotte of Prussia]] (d. [[1909]])
* [[October 29]] – [[Narcisa de Jesús]], Ecuadorian-born philanthropist, lay hermit, sainted (d. [[1869]])
* [[November 1]] – [[Gyula Szapáry]], Hungarian politician, 10th [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (d. [[1905]])
* [[November 3]] – [[Hubert de Burgh-Canning, 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde]] (d. [[1916]])
* [[November 7]] – [[Andrew Dickson White]], American historian, diplomat and co-founder of [[Cornell University]] (d. [[1918]])
* [[November 9]] – [[Émile Gaboriau]], French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of [[detective fiction]] (d. [[1873]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Samuel McKee (born 1832)|Samuel McKee]], Colonel for the [[Union Army]] and served in the [[Third Kentucky Volunteer Infantry]] (d. [[1862]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Nancy Edberg]], Swedish pioneer of women's swimming (d. [[1892]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Hermann Ottomar Herzog]], German-American painter (d. [[1932]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld]], Finnish-Swedish geologist and explorer (d. [[1901]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Mary Edwards Walker]], American physician (d. [[1919]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Leslie Stephen|Sir Leslie Stephen]], English writer, critic (d. [[1904]])
* [[November 29]] – [[Louisa May Alcott]], American author (d. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Louisa May Alcott {{!}} Biography, Childhood, Family, Books, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louisa-May-Alcott |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=26 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 4]] – [[Jonathan (tortoise)]], British tortoise
* [[December 6]] – [[Thaddeus C. Pound]], American businessman and politician (d. [[1914]])
* [[December 8]] 
** [[Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson]], Norwegian author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1910]])
** [[G. A. Henty]], English novelist and [[war correspondent]] (d. [[1902]])
* [[December 11]] – [[Nancy Edberg]], Swedish swimmer, swimming instructor and [[Public bathing|bath house]] manager (d. [[1892]])
* [[December 13]] – [[Alexander Milton Ross]], Canadian abolitionist (d. [[1897]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Ana Betancourt]], Cuban national heroine (d. [[1901]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Gustave Eiffel]], French engineer (d. [[1923]])
* [[December 21]] – [[John H. Ketcham]], American politician (d. [[1906]])
* [[December 27]] – [[Thomas Blakiston]], [[England|English]] [[List of explorers|explorer]], zoologist, and [[Natural history|naturalist]]. (d. [[1891]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Margaret Morton Bibb]], American quilter (d. [[1900]]/[[1910]])
* [[Naimuddin]], Bengali writer and Islamic scholar (d. [[1907]])<ref>{{cite Banglapedia|author=[[Wakil Ahmed]]|article=Naimuddin, Mohammad}}</ref>
* [[Turki bin Said]], former [[Sultan]] of [[Muscat and Oman]] (d. [[1888]])
* [[Nikiforos Lytras]], Greek painter (d. [[1904]])
* [[James James]], Welsh harpist and musician (d. [[1902]])
* [[Mary Fields]], American mail carrier who was the first [[Black women|Black woman]] to be employed as a [[Star routes|star route]] [[Mail carrier|postwoman]] in the United States (d. [[1914]])
* [[Jonathan (tortoise)]], world's oldest living land animal.

== Deaths ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:Goethe (Stieler 1828).jpg|110px|thumb|right|[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]]]
[[File:Jean-François Champollion, by Léon Cogniet.jpg|110px|thumb|right|[[Jean-François Champollion]]]]
* [[January 24]] – [[Daniel Sykes]], English politician (b. [[1766]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Alexander Cochrane]], British admiral (b. [[1758]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Andrew Bell (educationalist)|Andrew Bell]], Scottish educationalist, founder of [[Madras College]], India (b. [[1753]])
* [[February 2]] – [[Ignacio López Rayón]], leader of the [[Mexican War of Independence]] (b. [[1773]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://relatosehistorias.mx/nuestras-historias/ignacio-lopez-rayon|title=Ignacio López Rayón|last=Arroyo Tafolla|first=Natalia|language=es|access-date=May 30, 2019|publisher=Relatos e Historias.mx}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] – [[George Crabbe]], English poet and naturalist (b. [[1754]])
* [[March 4]] – [[Jean-François Champollion]], French Egyptologist (b. [[1790]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Muzio Clementi]], Italian composer and pianist (b. [[1752]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Otto Wilhelm Masing]], Estonian linguist (b. [[1763]])
* [[March 22]] – [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], German writer (b. [[1749]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia]] (b. [[1773]])
* [[April 3]] – [[Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac]], Prime Minister of France (b. [[1778]])
* [[April 12]] – [[Shadrach Bond]], American politician and the first [[governor of Illinois]] (b. [[1773]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet]], French painter (b. [[1761]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Georges Cuvier]], French zoologist (b. [[1769]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Sir William Grant|William Grant]], British lawyer, politician and judge (b. [[1752]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Nicolas Bergasse]], French lawyer (b. [[1750]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Évariste Galois]], French mathematician (b. [[1811]])
* [[June 1]] – [[Jean Maximilien Lamarque]], French general and politician (b. [[1770]])
* [[June 5]] – [[Ka{{okina}}ahumanu]], queen consort of Hawaii (b. [[1768]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Jeremy Bentham]], English philosopher (b. [[1748]])
* [[June 10]] – [[Joseph Hiester]], American politician (b. [[1752]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt]] (b. [[1754]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet|James Hall]], Scottish geologist (b. [[1761]])

=== July–December ===
[[File:Le duc de Reichstadt.jpg|110px|thumb|right|[[Napoleon II of France]]]]
[[File:Sir Henry Raeburn - Portrait of Sir Walter Scott.jpg|110px|thumb|right|[[Walter Scott]]]]
* [[July 22]] – [[Napoleon II of France]] (b. [[1811]])
* [[July 31]] – [[Edward Abbott (jurist)|Edward Abbott]], Australian soldier, politician and judge (b. [[1766]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot]], French military engineer and physicist (b. [[1796]])
* [[September 1]] – [[Joseph Kinghorn]], Particular Baptist Minister (b. [[1766]])
* [[September 2]] – [[Franz Xaver von Zach]], Austrian scientific editor and astronomer (b. [[1754]])
* [[September 21]] – Sir [[Walter Scott]], Scottish poet and novelist (b. [[1771]])
* [[September 27]] – [[Karl Christian Friedrich Krause]], German philosopher (b. [[1781]])
* [[October 11]] – [[Thomas Hardy (political reformer)|Thomas Hardy]], British political reformer (b. [[1752]])
* [[October 31]] – [[Antonio Scarpa]], Italian anatomist (b. [[1752]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Marie-Jeanne de Lalande]], French [[astronomer]] and mathematician (b. [[1768]])
* [[November 12]]
** [[Henry Eckford (shipbuilder)|Henry Eckford]], Scottish-born American shipbuilder, naval architect, industrial engineer, and entrepreneur (b. [[1775]])
** [[Barnaba Oriani]], Italian priest (b. [[1752]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Charles Carroll of Carrollton]], signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] and U.S. Senator (b. [[1737]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Say]], French economist, originator of [[Say's law]] (b. [[1767]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Philip Freneau]], American poet and journalist (b. [[1752]])
* [[December 29]] – [[James Hillhouse]], American politician and congressman from [[Connecticut]], 1791 until 1810 (b. [[1754]])
* ''undated'' – [[Birgithe Kühle]], Norwegian journalist (b. [[1762]])

== References ==
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