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Hugh Lawson White
American politician (1773-1840)
Pierre Jean François Turpin
French artist and botanist (1775-1840)
François Fulgis Chevallier
French botanist (1796-1840)
Julius Hermann Schultes
Austrian botanist (1804-1840)
Kizbech Tughuzhuqo
circassian military commander
Joseph Jacotot
French teacher and educational philosopher (1770-1840)
Jan Damel
Polish painter and caricaturist (1780–1840)
Népomucène Lemercier
French poet (1771-1840)
Charles Follen
German-American educator
Hannah Webster Foster
novelist
Hermann Ernst Freund
German-born Danish sculptor
Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann
German astronomer (1796-1840)
John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden
British politician (1759–1840)
Franz Anton von Gerstner
Austro-bohemian surveyor and railway engineer
George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough
British politician (1766-1840)
Charles Alten
Hanoverian and British soldier (1764-1840)
Alexander Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian general (1753-1840)
Luis Fernández de Córdova
Spanish general and diplomat (1798-1840)
Tani Bunchō
Japanese artist (1763-1841)
André-Jean-François-Marie Brochant de Villiers
French scientist (1772-1840)
Blas Parera
Spanish musician
Ratu Udre Udre
Most prolific cannibal, reportedly ate between 872 and 999 people
Diodata Saluzzo Roero
Italian writer and poet
William Garrow
British barrister, politician and judge (1760–1840)
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland
English politician (1773-1840)
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria
Austrian Archduchess (1835–1840)
Thomas Drummond
British engineer (1797-1840)
Domenico Viviani
Italian botanist (1772-1840)
Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov
Russian nobleman (1798-1840)
Jeanne-Philiberte Ledoux
French painter (1767–1840)
Leonard Gyllenhaal
Swedish military officer and entomologist (1752 – 1840)
Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff
Dutch physicist (1759-1840)
Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg
Norwegian count and politician (1779-1840)
Giuditta Grisi
singer (1805-1840)
Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein
Prussian politician (1770-1840)

Robert Seppings
Surveyor of the Royal Navy; British naval architect

Armand-Charles Guilleminot
French general during the Napoleonic wars (1774-1840)

Karl Ferdinand von Graefe
German surgeon
Eduard Joseph d'Alton
German engraver and naturalist (1772-1840)

Jakob Sigismund Beck
German philosopher

Vasilisa Kozhina
Russian guerilla leader during the French invasion of 1812
Hippolyte Cloquet
French physician, anatomist and naturalist
Empress Xiaoquancheng
Qing Dynasty empress (1808–1840)
William Maclure
geologist, cartographer, social theorist (1763-1840)
Ivan Kozlov
Russian poet
Peter van Bohlen
German orientalist and indologist (1796–1840)
Gerald Griffin
Irish-born novelist, poet and playwright (1803 – 1840), author of the novel The Collegians
John S. Spence
American politician (1788-1840)
Giocondo Albertolli
architect, painter, sculptor (1743-1839)

Étienne Bobillier
French mathematician (1798-1840)
José María Narváez
Spanish naval officer, explorer, and navigator

Smail-aga Čengić
army general
Kunitomo Ikkansai
gunsmith

Christopher Grant Champlin
American politician (1768–1840)
Nachman Krochmal
Austrian-Jewish scholar (1785-1840)
Thomas Daniell
English landscape painter (1749-1840)
Jean-Louis Taberd
French missionary
Emma Roberts
English travel writer and poet (1791-1840)
Claude-Emmanuel de Pastoret
French politician (1755-1840)
Christopher Ellery
American politician (1768-1840)