Births
- Benzion Judah Berkowitz (d. 1879), Hebrew scholar
- Miron Cherepanov (d. 1849), engineer and inventor
- Alexander Grigorievich Fischer von Waldheim (d. 1884), botanist
- Aleksander Gurilyov (d. 1858), pianist, violinist, and composer
- Gregor von Helmersen (d. 1885), Baltic German geologist
- Evgeniya Maykova (d. 1880), writer and poet
- Vladimir Odoyevsky (d. 1869), philosopher, writer, and music critic
- Nikolai Pavlov (d. 1864), writer, publisher, and editor
- Aleksander Pisarev (d. 1828), playwright and theatre critic
- Serge Poltoratzky (d. 1884), literary scholar and bibliophile
- Yevfimiy Putyatin (d. 1883), admiral
- Vassili Samarsky-Bykhovets (d. 1870), mining engineer
- Yuliya Samoylova (d. 1875), countess
- Gregory Shchurovsky (d. 1884), geologist
- Dmitri Sheremetev (d. 1871), aristocrat
- Dmitry Sontsov (d. 1875), numismatist
- Fyodor Tyutchev (d. 1873), poet and diplomat
- Stepan Vasiliyevich Voyevodsky (d. 1884), admiral, governor of Russian America and Astrakhan
- Nikolay Yazykov (d. 1846), poet
