Louis Braille
Jan 6 Louis Braille, French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for the blind, dies of tuberculosis at 43

Louis Braille
- Jan 22 George Rodwell, English composer, dies at 51
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
Jan 25 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer who discovered the continent of Antarctica dies at 72