Year (''' MDCCCIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Friday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- January 4 - Louis Braille , French teacher, inventor of braille (d. 1852 )
- January 15 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , French anarchist (d. 1864 )
- January 19 - Edgar Allan Poe , American writer and poet (d. 1849 )
- February 3 - Felix Mendelssohn , German composer (d. 1847 )
- February 12
- --- Abraham Lincoln , 16th President Of The United States (d. 1865 )
- --- Charles Darwin , British naturalist (d. 1882 )
- February 15 - Cyrus McCormick , American inventor (d. 1884 )
- March 24 - Joseph Liouville , French mathematician (d. 1882 )
- March 31 - Nikolai Gogol , Russian writer (d. 1852 )
- April 15 - Hermann Gunter Grassmann , Prussian mathematician (d. 1877 )
- June 4
- --- Columbus Delano , American statesman (d. 1896 )
- --- John Henry Pratt , English clergyman and mathematician (d. 1871 )
- June 8 - Richard Wigginton Thompson , American politician (d. 1900 )
- June 20 - Isaak August Dorner , German theologian (d. 1884 )
- August 6 - Alfred Lord Tennyson , British poet (d. 1892 )
- August 8 - Heinrich Abeken , German theologian (d. 1872 )
- August 27 - Hannibal Hamlin , American politician (d. 1891 )
- August 29 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. , American physician and writer (d. 1894 )
- October 22 - Volney E. Howard , American politician (d. 1889 )
- September 27 - Raphael Semmes , Officer in the USN and the CSN (d. 1877 )
- November 27 - Fanny Kemble , British-born American actress and writer (d. 1893 )
- December 24 - Kit Carson , American frontiersman (d. 1868 )
- December 29 - William Ewart Gladstone , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1898 )
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- January 16 - John Moore , British general (killed in battle) (b. 1761 )
- February 25 - John Murray , 4th Earl of Dunmore ( Lord Dunmore )
- March 7 - Johann Georg Albrechtsberger , Austrian composer (b. 1736 )
- March 11 - Hannah Cowley , English dramatist and poet (b. 1743 )
- March 25 - Anna Seward , English writer (b. 1747 )
- March 27 - Joseph-Marie Vien , French painter (b. 1716 )
- May 13 - Beilby Porteus , English bishop and abolitionist (b. 1731 )
- May 17 - Leopold Auenbrugger , Austrian physician (b. 1722 )
- May 31
- --- Joseph Haydn , Austrian composer (b. 1732 )
- --- Jean Lannes , French marshal (mortally wounded in battle (b. 1769 )
- July 6 - Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle , French cavalry general (killed in battle) (b. 1775 )
- June 4 - Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard , Danish painter (b. 1743 )
- June 8 - Thomas Paine , American revolutionary writer (b. 1737 )
- August 8 - Ueda Akinari , Japanese author and scholar (b. 1734 )
- August 18 - Matthew Boulton , English manufacturer and engineer (b. 1728 )
- October 8 - James Elphinston , Scottish philologist (b. 1721 )
- October 11 - Meriwether Lewis , American explorer (suicide) (b. 1774 )
- October 30 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke Of Portland , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (b. 1738 )
- November 9 - Paul Sandby , English cartographer and painter (b. 1725 )
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