* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

* 1840 – Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.

* 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )

* 1840 – John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician ( d. 1929 )

* 1840 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist ( d. 1902 )

* 1840 – Ferdinand Hamer, Dutch missionary and bishop ( d. 1900 )

* 1840 – Émile Zola, French novelist and critic ( d. 1902 )

* 1798 – Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician ( d. 1840 )

Archery, romance and elite culture in England and Wales, c. 1780 – 1840, 89, 193 – 208.

François-Auguste-René Rodin ( 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917 ), known as Auguste Rodin ( ; ), was a French sculptor.

* 1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.

It is named after Ernst Abbe ( 1840 – 1905 ), the German physicist who defined it.

# Lucien Bonaparte ( 1775 – 1840 )

#*** Bathilde Aloïse Léonie Bonaparte ( 1840 – 1861 )

* 12 June 1814 – 3 October 1814 José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco ( 2nd time ); he stayed on as " supreme dictator " 3 October 1814 – 20 September 1840 ( from 6 June 1816 styled " perpetual supreme dictator ")

Soldiers of the Dragon: Chinese Armies 1500 BC – AD 1840.

* George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough ( 1766 – 1840 ), elder son of the 4th Duke

* 1888 – Namık Kemal, Turkish poet ( b. 1840 )

* 1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian ( b. 1840 )

The Shihab leadership continued until the middle of the 19th century and culminated in the illustrious governorship of Amir Bashir Shihab II ( 1788 – 1840 ) who, after Fakhr-al-Din, was the most powerful feudal lord Lebanon produced.

The Maronite-Druze conflict in 1840 – 60 was an outgrowth of the Maronite Christian independence movement, directed against the Druze, Druze feudalism, and the Ottoman-Turks.

: Minorities in the Middle East: Druze Communities 1840 – 1974, 4 volumes, Slough: Archive Editions ( 2006 ).

Topelius became a student at the Imperial Alexander University of Finland in 1833, received his master's degree degree in 1840, the Licentiate degree in 1844 and was made a doctor of philosophy in 1847, having defended a dissertation titled De modo matrimonia jungendi apud fennos quondam vigente (" About the custom of marriage among the ancient Finns ").

* September 9 – Alexander Nasmyth, Scottish portrait and landscape painter ( d. 1840 )

* James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie ( 1784 – 1843 ) 1840 – 1843

In 1840 Alexander von Humboldt accompanied Prussian King Frederick William IV on the way to Königsberg, and Humboldt received an honorary membership in the Society.

In 1840, State Geologist John Henry Alexander was the first to put Kingsville on a map.

It was named for William Alexander Graham, United States Senator from North Carolina ( 1840 – 1843 ) and Governor of North Carolina ( 1845 – 1849 ).

Samuel Andrew Jackson Cockayne married Hannah Jane Alexander ( 1840 – 1917 ) in 1863.

** Alexander O. Anderson ( D ), from February 26, 1840

In it, he attempted to whip up fever for a war between the United States and Britain over the issue of Alexander McLeod, a Canadian who had been arrested in New York State in November 1840 for his role in the Caroline incident.

Alexander Nasmyth ( 9 September 1758 – 10 April 1840 ) was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter, often called the " father of Scottish landscape painting ".

Alexandra's father was Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife ( 1840 – 1912 ), the son of the 5th Earl of Fife ( 1814 – 1879 ) and his wife, the former Lady Agnes Hay.

Alexander Maconochie, a Scottish geographer and captain in the Royal Navy, introduced the modern idea of parole when, in 1840, he was appointed superintendent of the British penal colonies in Norfolk Island, Australia.

* Lewis Alexander Grant-Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Seafield ( 1767 – 1840 )

* Alexander Charles Hamilton, 10th Lord Belhaven and Stenton ( 1840 – 1920 )

William Alexander Graham ( September 5, 1804August 11, 1875 ) was a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, a Senator in the Confederate Senate from 1864 to 1865, the 30th Governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852.

* 1840 – 1843: James Alexander Stewart Mackenzie

He was the author of two books on vertebrates: Fauna der Wirbelthiere Deutschlands ( 1857 ), ( Vertebrates of Europe ), and Die wirbelthiere Europa's ( 1840 ) ( with Alexander Keyserling ).

Anderson's son, Alexander Outlaw Anderson, served as a U. S. Senator from Tennessee from 1840 to 1841, and helped organize the government of the State of California in the early 1850s.

Parsons moved to Talladega, Alabama, in 1840, and practiced law with Alexander White.

* 1894-1896 Alexander John Finlaison CB ( 1840 – 1900 )

* Alexander Rimsky-Korsakov ( 1753 – 1840 ), infantry general

Alexander Loyd ( also Alexander Lloyd ) ( August 19, 1805 – May 7, 1872 ))) served one term as mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1840 until 1841 for the Democratic Party.

Denver's most illustrious native son was William Alexander Graham ( September 5, 1804 – August 11, 1875 ) who was a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, Governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852.