* [[January 8]] – Sir [[Theophilus Shepstone]], British-born South African statesman (d. [[1893]])
* [[January 8]] – Sir [[Theophilus Shepstone]], British-born South African statesman (d. [[1893]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Francisco de Lersundi y Hormaechea]], Spanish noble and politician, [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (d. [[1874]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Francisco de Lersundi y Hormaechea]], Spanish noble and politician, [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (d. [[1874]])
* [[January 31]] – [[John Bachmann]], Swiss-American lithographer (d. [[1899]])
* [[February 17]] – [[Édouard Thilges]], 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. [[1904]])
* [[February 17]] – [[Édouard Thilges]], 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. [[1904]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Lewis Armistead]], American Confederate general (d. [[1863]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Lewis Armistead]], American Confederate general (d. [[1863]])
Calendar year
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1817 (MDCCCXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1817th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 817th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1810s decade. As of the start of 1817, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
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- January 8 – Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (d. 1893)
- January 28 – Francisco de Lersundi y Hormaechea, Spanish noble and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1874)
- January 31 – John Bachmann, Swiss-American lithographer (d. 1899)
- February 17 – Édouard Thilges, 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1904)
- February 18 – Lewis Armistead, American Confederate general (d. 1863)
- February 19 – King William III of the Netherlands (d. 1890)
- February 22 – Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
- February 24 – Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, French general (d. 1882)
- March 2 – János Arany, Hungarian poet, translator, teacher, secretary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (d. 1882)
- March 6 – Princess Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis Philippe I of France, mother of Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (d. 1907)
- March 9 – Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, Dominican independence activist and founding father of the Dominican Republic (d. 1861)
- March 22 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
- April 1 – Nissen Shonin, Japanese Buddhist priest Honmon Butsuryū-shū, Kyoto city (d. 1890)
- April 15 – Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol College, Oxford (d. 1893)
- April 24 – Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Swiss chemist (d. 1894)
- May 15 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (d. 1905)
- May 19 – Theodor August Heintzman, Canadian piano manufacturer (d. 1899)
- June 30 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (d. 1911)
- July 6 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss biologist, zoologist (d. 1905)
- July 12
- July 15
- July 24 – Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1905)
- July 29 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian painter (d. 1900)
- August 3 – Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general (d. 1895)
- August 4 – Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, 29th United States Secretary of State (d. 1885)
- August 14 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (d. 1874)
- August 24 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
- August 25 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French religious (d. 1898)
- September 6
- September 14 – Theodor Storm, German writer (d. 1888)
- October 10 – Christophorus Buys Ballot, Dutch chemist, meteorologist (d. 1890)
- October 17 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (Bahadaur), Indian founder of the Two Nation Theory for a future Pakistan (d. 1898)
- October 30 – Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp, German chemist (d. 1892)
- November 3 – Leonard Jerome, American entrepreneur, grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill (d. 1891)
- November 12 – Bahá’u’lláh, Persian founder of the Bahá’í Faith (d. 1892)
- November 17 – Benjamin Champney, American painter (d. 1907)
- November 30 – Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1903)
- December 8 – Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1896)
- December 10 – Alexander Wood (physician), Scottish inventor of the first true hypodermic syringe (d. 1884)
- December 23 – Warren Felt Evans, American writer (d. 1889)
- Sophia Wilkens, Swedish social reformer, pioneer in the education of the intellectually disabled (d. 1889)
- January 1 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist who discovered uranium (1789), zirconium (1789), and cerium (1803) (b. 1743)
- January 11 – Timothy Dwight IV, American educator, theologian (b. 1752)
- January 11 – Margherita Dalmet, Venetian dogaressa (b. 1739)
- January 12 – Juan Andrés, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1740)
- January 16 – Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman, financier (b. 1759)
- February 8 – Francis Horner, Scottish politician, economist (b. 1778)
- March 8 – Anna Maria Lenngren, Swedish writer (b. 1754)
- April 2 – Johann Heinrich Jung, German writer (b. 1740)
- April 4 – André Masséna, French marshal (b. 1758)
- April 12 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (b. 1730)
- April 20 – Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain, Spanish prince (b. 1755)
- June 2 – Clotilde Tambroni, Italian philologist, linguist (b. 1758)
- June 4 – George Farragut, American naval officer (b. 1755)
- June 9 – Théroigne de Méricourt, French revolutionary (b. 1762)
- June 13
- June 18 – Leonard Neale, American Catholic bishop (b. 1746)
- June 20 – Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, French diplomat (b. 1752)
- June 24 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1734)
- June 30 – Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist (b. 1750)
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- July 14 – Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, French writer (b. 1766)
- July 18 – Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
- July 19 – John Palmer, Bath architect (b. c. 1738)
- July 24 – Karađorđe Petrović, Serb leader of the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire, founder of the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty (b. 1768)
- August 7 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French politician (b. 1739)
- August 10 – Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1740)
- September 18 – David Hall, American judge (b. 1752)
- October 11 – Gertrudis Bocanegra, Mexican national heroine (b. 1765)
- October 13 – Julius Caesar Ibbetson, English artist (b. 1759)
- October 15 – Tadeusz Kościuszko, exiled Polish general, nationalist (b. 1746)
- October 16 – Manuel Piar, Venezuelan military leader (b. 1774)
- November 6 – Princess Charlotte of Wales, heir presumptive to the British throne (b. 1796)
- November 7 – Jean-André Deluc, Swiss geologist (b. 1727)
- November 11 – Francisco Javier Mina, Spanish military leader (b. 1789) (executed)
- November 14 – Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian spy, revolutionary who worked for the independence of Colombia (b. 1795)
- November 30 – Jean-Baptiste-Melchior Hertel de Rouville, Canadian politician (b. 1748)
- December 7 – William Bligh, British admiral (b. 1754)
- December 1 – Justin Heinrich Knecht, German composer, organist and music theorist (b. 1752)
- December 12 – Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. c. 1751)
- December 15
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