* 1839 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer ( d. 1888 )

* 1839 – Benjamin Pierce, American politician ( b. 1757 )

* 1839 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist ( b. 1763 )

* 1839 – Nelson Miles, American general ( d. 1925 )

* 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift " free to the world ".

* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )

* 1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China.

* 1839 – Gulstan Ropert, French prelate ( d. 1903 )

On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.

* 1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.

* 1839 – Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist ( d. 1896 )

* 1839 – Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English politician ( b. 1758 )

* 1839 – Walter Pater, English essayist and critic ( d. 1894 )

He married Helen Leech ( 1839 – 1932 ), the daughter of another wealthy cotton merchant and shipbuilder from Stalybridge, at Gee Cross on 8 August 1863.

#* Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte ( 1802 – 1839 )

#*** Léonie Stéphanie Elise Bonaparte ( 1833 – 1839 )

#*** Napoléon Charles Grégoire Jacques Philippe Bonaparte ( 1839 – 1899 )

# Maria Annunziata Caroline Bonaparte ( 1782 – 1839 ) married Joachim Murat, Marshal of France

Portales brought the military under civilian control by rewarding loyal generals, cashiering troublemakers, and promoting a victorious war against the Peru-Bolivia Confederation ( 1836 – 1839 ).

September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914 ) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, sometimes known as " the father of pragmatism ".

A census was taken in the Ottoman Empire 1831-38 by Sultan Mahmud II ( 1808 – 1839 ) as a part of the reform movement Tanzimat.

** William Erasmus Darwin ( 1839 – 1914 ), eldest son of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

It was Rochet d ' Hericourt's exploration into Shoa ( 1839 – 42 ) that marked the beginning of French interest in the Djiboutian coast of the Red Sea.

* 1839 – George Armstrong Custer, American general ( d. 1876 )

In late 1839, the Whigs held their first national convention and nominated William Henry Harrison as their presidential candidate.

His uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen ( 1787 – 1862 ), was Attorney General of New Jersey from 1817 to 1829, was a U. S. Senator from New Jersey from 1829 to 1835, was the Whig candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Henry Clay ticket in the 1844 Presidential election, and was Chancellor of New York University from 1839 until 1850 and president of Rutgers College from 1850 to 1862.

The Afan was diverted and a dock was opened in 1839 named for the Talbot family, local landowners who were related to the pioneer photographer, William Henry Fox Talbot.

In 1839, the Hope Diamond appeared in a published catalog of the gem collection of Henry Philip Hope who was a member of the prominent Anglo-Dutch banking family.

Henry Philip Hope died in 1839, the same year as the publication of his collection catalog.

* Cavendish, Henry ( 1839 ).

They were the parents of one son, Henry Wood Bache, born in 1839 and died on November 7, 1878 at Bristol, Long Island, New York.

* William Henry Seward, Jr. ( 1839 – 1920 )

Between 1839 and 1856 the newsagent and future First Lord of the Admiralty William Henry Smith lived in a house to the west of Kilburn High Road.

With the Charter petition rejected by Parliament and another prominent Chartist, Henry Vincent, arrested in the summer of 1839 for making inflammatory speeches, the physical force Chartists started organising.

In 1839 James Pollock placed a small stock of goods in the log cabin built by Henry Simmons, where he did business for about a year.

The painter Henry Bacon ( 1839 – 1912 ) was born in Haverhill.

In 1839, Henry Hurd had the town renamed Henrietta, after his home town of Henrietta, New York.

* Whittington Henry Landon 1795 – 1839

Henry George ( September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897 ) was an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the " single tax " on land.

Corpus Christi was founded in 1839 by Colonel Henry Lawrence Kinney as Kinney's Trading Post, or Kinney's Ranch.

Edmund Henry Barker ( 1788 – 21 March 1839 ) was an English classical scholar.

Francis and Emma had other children: Captain John Brooke Johnson ( 1823 – 1868 ) ( later Brooke Brooke ), Mary Anna Johnson ( b. 1824 ), Harriet Helena Johnson ( b. 1826 ), Charlotte Frances Johnson ( b. 1828 ), Captain ( William ) Frederic Johnson ( b. 1830 ), Emma Lucy Johnson ( b. 1832 ), Margaret Henrietta Johnson ( 1834 – 1845 ), Georgianna Brooke Johnson ( 1836 – 1854 ), James Stuart Johnson ( 1839 – 1840 ), and Henry Stuart Johnson ( b. 1841 ).

** Henry Hart, entertainer and composer ( b. 1839 )

* Admiral Sir Henry Trollope ( 1756 – 1839 ) English.

Captain Henry Miller Shreve began clearing the log jam in 1839.

Henry Nettleship ( 5 May 1839 – 10 July 1893 ) was an English classical scholar.

* Henry Hitchcock ( 1792 – 1839 ), first Attorney General of Alabama

The Transit was lost in 1839, the Arfestone the following year, and the Henry Catherine in 1866.