• 3 January –
Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, geographer (died
1897). • 10 March –
Samuel Ferguson,
poet,
barrister,
antiquarian,
artist and public servant (died
1886). • 3 June –
Robert Mallet, geologist, civil engineer and inventor (died
1881). • 3 September –
Paul Kane, painter in
Canada (died
1871). • 27 September –
Michael O'Connor, first Catholic Bishop of
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, first Catholic
Bishop of Erie,
Jesuit (died
1872). • ;Full date unknown • :*
Elliot Warburton, travel writer and novelist (died
1852). ==Deaths==