* 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 )

Josiah Willard Gibbs ( February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903 ) was an American scientist who made important theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics.

Josiah Gregg describes the Pueblo people in Commerce of the Prairies: or, The journal of a Santa Fé trader, 1831 – 1839 as follows:

* Josiah Willard Gibbs, Jr. ( 1839 – 1903 )— scientist, " Father of Thermodynamics "

< span id =" Charles George Cornwallis Eliot "> Charles George Cornwallis Eliot </ span >, ( 16 October 1839 – 22 May 1901 ), courtier and soldier, succeeded Alpin McGregor as a Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to Queen Victoria in 1899, married on 26 October 1865 Constance Rhiannon Guest, daughter of Sir John Josiah Guest, Bt and Lady Charlotte Guest.

* Josiah Willard Gibbs ( 1839 – 1903 ), American mathematical physicist and founder of physical chemistry.

Named after physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs ( 1839 – 1903 ).

* April 28 – Willard Gibbs, American physical chemist ( b. 1839 )

Marcus Peck ; 1831, William F. Averill ; 1832, Eleazer Flint ; 1833, Carpenter G. Conklin ; 1834, William L. Stewart ; 1835, Marcus Peck ; 1836, William F. Averill, Eleazer Flint ; 1837, William F. Averill ; 1838, Jacob Hegeman ; 1839, Marcus Peck, John Wood ; 1840, Jacob Wheeler, Ebenezer Barringer ; 1841, Rescome H. Wheeler, Ebenezer Barringer ; 1842, George Carnryck ; 1843, Marcus Peck ; 1844, Jacob Wheeler, Eleazer Wooster ; 1845, Eleazer Wooster ; 1846, George Carnryck ; 1847, Marcus Peck ; 1848, Jacob Wheeler, Willard Foster, Joseph Bly ; 1849, Cornelius Schermerhorn ; 1851, B. F. Foster, Adam Mott ; 1852, Jacob Boyce ; 1853, Cornelius Schermerhorn ; 1854, Lewis Sliter, William S. Stewart ; 1855, William Moul, John L. Lape, Thomas Brewer ; 1856, Jacob Wheeler ; 1857, Cornelius Schermerhorn ; 1858, William M. Horton ;: 859, Joel B. Peck, William Moul ; 1860, S. D. Seymour, Joshua Coons ; 1862, George Sliter ; 1863, William Moul ; 1864, B.

Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard ( September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898 ) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist.

Willard also published a book of poetry, The Fulfilment of a Promise ( 1831 ) with her most popular poem entitled “ Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep ,” which she reportedly wrote while on an ocean voyage in 1839.

* Willard Gibbs, 1839 – 1903

In 1839, Simon Willard retired.

* April 28-Willard Gibbs ( born 1839 ), physical chemist.

Gibbs was one of the key witnesses in the Amistad trial in 1839 – 1840.

Other references state that he visited in 1832, and again on August 14, 1839, in the whaler Gideon Howland, to bury an American seaman.

From 1839, larger American clipper ships started to be built beginning with the Akbar, 650 tons OM, in 1839, and including the 1844-built Houqua, 581 tons OM.

* 1839 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher ( d. 1906 )

* 1839 – Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician ( d. 1896 )

Among the most important figures of the federal era include the first democratically elected president in Honduras, Dionisio de Herrera, a lawyer, whose government, begun in 1824 established the first constitution, Gen. Francisco Morazán, Federal President 1830-1834 and 1835 – 1839, whose figure embodies the ideal American Unionist, and José Cecilio del Valle, editor of the Declaration of Independence signed in Guatemala on September 15, 1821 and Foreign Minister of Mexico in 1823.

Soon, social and economic differences between Honduras and its regional neighbors exacerbated harsh partisan strife among Central American leaders and brought the collapse of the Federation from 1838 to 1839.

* 1839 – Sam Watkins, American soldier and author ( d. 1901 )

* 1839 – William H. Seward, Jr., American general ( d. 1920 )

* 1839 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company ( d. 1937 )

* 1752 – Samuel Smith, American politician ( d. 1839 )

* 1902 – Almon Brown Strowger, American inventor ( b. 1839 )

* 1839 – Dudley Buck, American composer, organist, and writer ( d. 1909 )

* 1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.

* 1839 – Henry George, American economist ( d. 1897 )

* 1839 – Isaac K. Funk, American minister and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls ( d. 1912 )

* 1839 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher, mathematician, and scientist ( d. 1914 )

* October 2 – Winfield Scott Schley, American admiral ( b. 1839 )

* April 19 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American businessman and newswriter ( born 1839 )