- Jan 3 Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898)
- Jan 3 Feliks Ostrowski, Polish pianist and composer, born in Kraśnik, Russian Empire (d. 1860)
- Jan 6 Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian writer (Gramatica), born in Târgoviște, Romania (d. 1872)
- Jan 13 Eduard von Bauernfeld, Austrian comedic playwright, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1890)
- Jan 19 Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belgian foreign minister to Britain, born in Louvain, Belgium (d. 1874)
- Jan 22 Richard Upjohn, English-born American gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, NY), born in Shaftesbury, England (d. 1878)
- Jan 31 Jan van Speyk, Dutch naval hero (blew up own gunboat to avoid capture during Belgian Revolution), born in Amsterdam (d. 1831)