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Common Year Starting On Friday (see link for calendar).
- February 8 - John Ruskin , English writer, artist, and social critic (d. 1900 )
- February 11 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman , American composer (d. 1890 )
- February 14 - Joshua A. Norton , self-proclaimed " Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico " (d. 1880 )
- February 20 - Alfred Escher , Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882 )
- February 22 - James Russell Lowell , American poet and essayist (d. 1891 )
- March 3 - Gustave De Molinari , Belgian economist (d. 1912 )
- March 31 - Prince Chlodwig Zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1901 )
- April 4 - Queen Maria II Of Portugal (d. 1853 )
- April 9 - Annibale De Gasparis , Italian astronomer (d. 1892 )
- April 11 - Charles Hallé , German pianist and conductor (d. 1895 )
- April 18 - Franz Von Suppé , Austrian composer (d. 1895 )
- April 28 - Ezra Abbot , American Biblical scholar (d. 1884 )
- May 5 - Stanisław Moniuszko , Polish composer (d. 1872 )
- May 24 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901 )
- May 31 - Walt Whitman , American poet (d. 1892 )
- June 5 - John Couch Adams , English astronomer (d. 1892 )
- June 10 - Gustave Courbet , French painter (d. 1877 )
- June 20 - Jacques Offenbach , German-born composer (d. 1880 )
- July 19 - Gottfried Keller , Swiss writer (d. 1890 )
- August 1 - Richard Dadd , British painter (d. 1886 )
- August 1 - Herman Melville , American novelist (d. 1891 )
- August 13 - Sir George Gabriel Stokes , Irish mathematician and physicist (d. 1903 )
- August 25 - Allan Pinkerton , American detective (d. 1884 )
- August 26 - Prince Albert Of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha , Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (d. 1861 )
- September 7 - Thomas Hendricks , Vice President Of The United States (d. 1885 )
- September 13 - Clara Schumann , German composer and pianist (d. 1896 )
- September 22 - Wilhelm Wattenbach , German historian (d. 1897 )
- October 20 - The Báb , Persian founder of the Bábi Faith and the first of the three Central Figures of the Baha'i Faith (d. 1850 )
- November 22 - George Eliot , British novelist (d. 1880 )
- December 30 - Theodor Fontane , German writer (d. 1898 )
- Felice Orsini , Italian revolutionary (d. 1858 )
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