* 1801 – Joseph Lanner, Austrian composer and conductor ( d. 1843 )

* 1872 – William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer ( b. 1843 )

* 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter ( d. 1843 )

* 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War ( d. 1926 )

* Haliotis semiplicata Menke, 1843 – the semiplicate abalone

* 1843 – The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated.

* 1843 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.

* 1774 – Robert Southey, English poet and biographer ( d. 1843 )

* 1843 – C. I. Scofield, American theologian, minister, and writer ( d. 1921 )

* 1843 – William Southam, Canadian publisher ( d. 1932 )

* 1843 – David B. Hill, American politician, 29th Governor of New York ( d. 1910 )

He validated his theory by converting carbon disulfide, in several steps, to acetic acid ( 1843 – 45 ).

* 1843 – Alice of the United Kingdom ( d. 1878 )

Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

* Charles Bill ( 1843 – 1915 ), British Conservative Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) Leek 1892 – 1906

#*** Charles Albert Edmond Bonaparte ( 1843 – 1847 )

Clausewitz, Hermann von Boyen ( 1771 – 1848 ) and Karl von Grolman ( 1777 – 1843 ) were Scharnhorst's primary allies in his efforts to reform the Prussian army between 1807 and 1814.

** Etty Darwin ( 1843 – 1929 ), daughter of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

* 1843 – Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1910 )

The Dominicans of the province of France furnished Lacordaire ( 1835 – 1836, 1843 – 1851 ), Jacques Monsabré ( 1869 – 1870, 1872 – 1890 ), Joseph Ollivier ( 1871, 1897 ), Thomas Etourneau ( 1898 – 1902 ).

* August 11 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet ( b. 1843 )

After the death of Moses Shepherd in 1832, Lydia remarried to widower Daniel Cruger ( December 22, 1780-July 12, 1843 ) on July 16, 1833 in Ohio County, West Virginia ( then Virginia ).

Reynolds was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, one of nine surviving children of John Reynolds ( 1787 – 1853 ) and Lydia Moore Reynolds ( 1794 – 1843 ).

William Estes was originally a shoemaker, but by the time Lydia was born in 1819 he had become wealthy through dealing in real estate and had risen to the status of " gentleman farmer " Lydia was educated at Lynn Academy and worked as a schoolteacher before her marriage in September 1843.

Isaac Pinkham was a 29-year-old shoe manufacturer when he married Lydia in 1843.

* Lydia ( 1843 )

*" Slavery's Pleasant Homes ", 1843 short story by Lydia Maria Child

Francis Scott Key ( August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843 ) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States ' national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

* 1843 – Frederic William Henry Myers, English poet and essayist ( d. 1901 )

* August 12 – Robert Southey, English poet and biographer ( d. 1843 )

** Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, French poet ( d. 1843 )

Frederic William Henry Myers ( 6 February 1843, Keswick, Cumberland – 17 January 1901, Rome ) was a poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research.

His teacher Gustav Adolf Leo Sachse ( 5 November 1843 – 1 September 1909 ), who was also a poet, played the most important role in determining Frege's future scientific career, encouraging him to continue his studies at the University of Jena.

Robert Southey ( or ; 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843 ) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called " Lake Poets ", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843.

Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843 ) was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism.

Peter Rosegger ( 31 July 1843 – 26 June 1918 ) was an Austrian poet from the province of Styria.

* August 12-Robert Southey, poet ( died 1843 )

He was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys ( 1843 – 1923 ), vicar of Montacute, Somerset, for 32 years, and Mary Cowper Johnson, a descendent of the poet William Cowper.

Powys was born in Dorchester, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys ( 1843 – 1923 ), who was vicar of Montacute, Somerset for thirty-two years, and Mary Cowper Johnson, a descendent of the poet William Cowper.

* April 4-Casimir Delavigne, poet ( died 1843 )

* August 1-Francis Scott Key, poet ( died 1843 )

In that year, Benjamin wrote about the 18th-century Romantic German poet Friedrich Hölderlin ( 1770 – 1843 ).

* Bernhard von Beskow ( 1796 – 1868 ), poet, playwright, courtier, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, created a baron in 1843

During this busy period he found leisure for literature, and published in 1843 a translation of the Manuscript of the Queen's Court, a collection of Czech medieval poetry, today considered as falses by Czech poet Václav Hanka.

Washington Allston ( November 5, 1779 – July 9, 1843 ) was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina.

Roscoe and his wife had seven sons and three daughters, including William Stanley Roscoe ( 1782 – 1843 ), a poet, Thomas Roscoe ( 1791 – 1871 ), translator from Italian, and Henry ( 1800 – 1836 ), a legal writer who wrote his father's biography.

Edward Dowden ( 3 May 1843 – 4 April 1913 ), was an Irish critic and poet.

Thomas Bracken ( 21 December 1843 – 16 February 1898 ) was a noted late 19th century poet.