16 January – William Marsden, surgeon (born 1796) 27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist (born 1802) 22 May – Edward Hodges Baily, sculptor (born 1788) 4 August – William Crawshay II, industrialist (born 1788) 25 August – Michael Faraday, chemist and physicist (born 1791) 1 December – William Thomas, guardian of Aboriginal Australians (born 1793)