Year (''' MDCCCXI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 9 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett , English writer (d. 1856 )
- January 17 - Joshua Abraham Norton , self-declared Emperor Norton I of the United States (d. 1880 )
- February 3 - Horace Greeley , American journalist, editor, and publisher (d. 1872 )
- February 6 - Henry George Liddell , English clergyman (d. 1898 )
- March 20 - Napoleon II Of France (d. 1832 )
- March 21 - Nathaniel Woodard , English eeducationalist (d. 1891 )
- March 30 - Robert Bunsen , German chemist and inventor (d. 1899 )
- May 11 - Chang And Eng Bunker , Siamese Twins and Sideshow performers.
- May 11 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel , member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1893 )
- June 14 - Harriet Beecher Stowe , American author (d. 1896 )
- July 18 - William Makepeace Thackeray , British novelist (d. 1863 )
- August 31 - Theophile Gautier , French writer (d. 1872 )
- September 19 - Orson Pratt , American religious leader (d. 1881 )
- October 22 - Franz Liszt , Hungarian composer and pianist (d. 1886 )
- October 25 - Évariste Galois , French mathematician (d. 1832 )
- October 27 - Stevens Thomson Mason , first governor of Michigan (d. 1843 )
- November 21 - Zeng Guofan , Chinese official and military leader (d. 1872 )
- November 21 - Ludwig Preiss , Botanical collector (d 1883 )
- December - The Ratclife Highway Murders
- November 24 - Ulrich Ochsenbein , Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1890 )
- December 21 - Archibald Campbell Tait , Archbishop Of Canterbury (d. 1882 )
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