Year 1839 (MDCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1839 [edit] January–March [edit] April–June [edit] July–September [edit] October–December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing events [edit] Births [edit] January–June - January 19 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
- February 11 – Josiah Willard Gibbs, American physicist and chemist (d. 1903)
- February 22 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
- March 9 – Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908)
- March 15 – Daniel Ridgway Knight, American artist (d. 1924)
- March 16 – John Butler Yeats, Irish artist (d. 1922)
- March 21 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (d. 1881)
- April 12 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (d. 1888)
- April 30 – Floriano Peixoto, Brazilian president (d.1895)
- June 17 – Arthur Tooth, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (d. 1931)
- June 21 – Machado de Assis, Brazilian author (d. 1908)
[edit] July–December [edit] Deaths [edit] January–June [edit] July–December - July 1 – Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan
- July 8 – Fernando Sor, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1778)
- July 15 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English politician and poet (b. 1802)
- August 10 – Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
- August 22 – Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist (b. 1789)
- August 28 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (b. 1769)
- October – William Light, British Army colonel and the first Surveyor-General of South Australia (b. 1786)
- November 15 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (b. 1754)
- December 3 – Frederick VI, King of Denmark, ex-King of Norway (b. 1768)
- December 15 – Ignaz Aurelius Fessler, court councillor and minister to Alexander I (b. 1756)
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