1801

Events 
 Great Britain is united with Ireland to make the United Kingdom.

 Deaths 
 February 7 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)
 March 21 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (b. 1741)
 March 23 – Tsar Paul of Russia (b. 1754)
 March 25 – Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)
 March 28 – Ralph Abercromby, British general (b. 1734)
 April 2 – Thomas Dadford Junior, British engineer
 April 7 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (b. 1724)
 May 17 – William Heberden, English doctor (b. 1710)
 June 4 – Frederick Muhlenberg, first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1750)
 June 14 – Benedict Arnold, American Revolution hero and traitor (b. 1741)
 September 19 – Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (b. 1745)
 October 3 – Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (b. 1724)
 November 4 – William Shippen, American physician and Continental Congressman (b. 1536)
 November 5 – Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philologist and scholar (b. 1730)
 November 24 – Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)

 Births 
 January 3 – Gijsbert Haan, Dutch-American religious leader (d. 1874)
 February 1 – Thomas Cole, American artist (d. 1848)
 towards February 13 – János Kardos Hungarian Slovenes evangelic priest, teacher and writer (d. 1875)
 February 21 – John Henry Newman, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1890)
 May 11 – Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)
 June 1 – Brigham Young, American religious leader and colonizer (d. 1877)
 June 4 – James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
 June 14 – Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
 June 30 – Frederic Bastiat, French philosopher (d. 1850)
 July 5 – David Farragut, American naval commander (d.1870)
 July 29 – George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
 October 12 – Friedrich Frey-Herosé, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1873)
 November 3 – Karl Baedeker, German writer and publisher (d. 1859)
 November 3 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
 November 10 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
 December 11 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (d. 1836)