* 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 )

* 1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club ( d. 1900 )

* 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 ).

* June 21 – Sidney Smith, British admiral ( d. 1840 )

* Sir Sidney Smith ( Royal Navy officer ) ( William Sidney Smith, 1764 – 1840 ), British admiral

* Sir William Sidney Smith ( 1764 – 1840 ), British admiral, always known as Sir Sidney Smith

Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, KCB, GCTE ( 21 June 1764 – 26 May 1840 ) was a British naval officer.

* Joseph Smith, Sr. ( 1771 – 1840 ), father of Joseph Smith, and first Presiding Patriarch in the Latter Day Saint movement

* William Smith ( South Carolina senator ) ( 1762 – 1840 ), U. S. senator from South Carolina ( 1815 – 1830 )

The town was originally named Marysville after the wives of the two founders, John Smith ( a grocer ) and Isaac Meneley ( a blacksmith ), who started businesses here in 1840.

* Oberlin Smith ( 1840 – 1926 ), engineer and inventor.

Meaning literally " beautiful of pleasant place ," New Jersey's Nauvoo might well have been named by Smith, as he visited Monmouth County in 1840.

In 1840, John Smith leased his coal beds to his son, Francis J. Smith, his stepson, Samuel French, and his sons-in-law, Draper Smith and William C. Reynolds.

* George Smith ( assyriologist ) ( 1840 – 1876 ), English, first modern translator of the Epic of Gilgamesh

In 1840, with the third edition of the Book of Mormon, the wording was changed to " a pure and a delightsome people " by Joseph Smith, Jr., who claimed to be the translator of the book.

In 1840, Smith taught that Adam is the one " through whom Christ has been revealed from heaven, and will continue to be revealed from henceforth.

“ Rocky Mountain Rendezvous: A History of The Fur Trade 1825 – 1840 .” Gibbs M. Smith, Layton, Utah 2005.

Among the earlier of such designs are the illustrations to the Comic English and Latin Grammars ( 1840 ), to Written Caricatures ( 1841 ), to Hood's Comic Annual, ( 1842 ), and to Albert Smith's Wassail Bowl ( 1843 ), subjects mainly of a small vignette size, transcribed with the best skill of such woodcutters as Orrin Smith, and not, like the larger and later Punch illustrations, cut at speed by several engravers working at once on the subdivided block.

The species was first described in 1840 by the Scottish naturalist Andrew Smith based on a specimen collected at the Cape of Good Hope.

Greenwich's handsome station building was designed by George Smith in 1840, making it one of the oldest station buildings in the world.

On May 17, 1840, he married Mary Smith Jones.

Before Joseph, Sr. died on September 14, 1840, he ordained his eldest living son Hyrum Smith to succeed him as Patriarch to the Church.

: Note in particular that this George Smith is to be distinguished from George Smith ( assyriologist ) ( 1840 – 1876 ) who researched in some overlapping areas.