Year (''' MDCCCXVIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- July 18 - Celadon Leeds Daboll , American merchant and inventor (d. 1866 )
- July 22 - J. Gregory Smith , Vermont governor (d. 1891 )
- July 30 - Emily Brontë , British novelist (d. 1848 )
- September 27 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe , German chemist (d. 1884 )
- October 8 - John Henninger Reagan , American Confederate politician (d. 1905 )
- October 18 - Edward Ord , U.S. Army officer (d. 1883 )
- November 9 ( October 28 (O.S.)) - Ivan Turgenev , Russian writer (d. 1883 )
- November 29 - George Brown , Canadian politician (d. 1880 )
- December 13 - Mary Todd Lincoln , First Lady Of The United States (d. 1882 )
- December 24 - James Prescott Joule , British physicist (d. 1889 )
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