Year (''' MDCCCXXIV ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 8 - Wilkie Collins , British novelist (d. 1889 )
- January 15 - Marie Duplessis , French courtesan
- January 21 - Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson , American Confederate general (d. 1863 )
- February 7 - William Huggins , British astronomer (d. 1910 )
- February 16 - Peter Kozler , Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879 )
- March 2 - Bedřich Smetana , Czech composer (d. 1885 )
- March 9 - Amasa Leland Stanford , Governor of California (d. 1893 )
- March 12 - Gustav Kirchhoff , German physicist (d. 1887 )
- March 19 - William Allingham , Irish author (d. 1889 )
- March 25 - Clinton L. Merriam , American politician (d. 1900 )
- May 6 - Tokugawa Iesada , Japanese shogun (d. 1858 )
- May 16 - Levi P. Morton , 22nd Vice President Of The United States (d. 1920 )
- May 23 - Ambrose Burnside , American Civil War general (d. 1881 )
- June 26 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin , Irish-born physicist and engineer (d. 1907 )
- June 28 - Paul Broca , French anthropologist (d. 1880 )
- July 12 - Eugène Boudin , French painter (d. 1898 )
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- January 21 - Jean Baptiste Drouet , French revolutionary (b. 1765 )
- January 26 - Théodore Géricault , French painter (b. 1791 )
- February 21 - Eugène De Beauharnais , son of Josephine De Beauharnais (b. 1781 )
- April 19 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron , English poet (b. 1788 )
- May 15 - Johann Philipp Stadion, Count Von Warthausen , statesman (b. 1763 )
- May 26 - Capel Lofft , English writer (b. 1751 )
- June 16 - Charles-François Lebrun, Duc De Plaisance , Third Consul of France (b. 1739 )
- June 18 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke Of Tuscany (b. 1769 )
- June 21 - Étienne Aignan , French writer (b. 1773 )
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