1809

Events 

 Births 
 January 4 – Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind (d. 1852).
 January 15 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1864)
 January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe, American  writer (d. 1849)
 February 3 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
 February 12 – Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States (d. 1865)
 February 12 –  Charles Darwin, British naturalist (d. 1882)
 February 15 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)
 March 31 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (d. 1852)
 April 15 – Hermann Gunter Grassmann, Prussian mathematician (d. 1877)
 June 4 – Columbus Delano, American statesman  (d. 1896)
 June 4 – John Henry Pratt, English clergyman and mathematician (d. 1871)
 June 8 – Richard Wigginton Thompson, American politician (d. 1900)
 August 6 – Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (d. 1892)
 August 8 – Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (d. 1872)
 August 27 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, fifteenth Vice President of the United States (d. 1891)
 August 29 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
 October 22 – Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
 December 24 – Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)
 December 29 – William Ewart Gladstone, British politician (d. 1898)

 Deaths