January 11, 1801 John Lodge Ellerton, composer
January 21, 1801 Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer
January 29, 1801 Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer (Felix Meritis)
February 1, 1801 Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer
February 1, 1801 Thomas Cole, U.S., romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School)
February 7, 1801 John Rylands, England, merchant/philanthropist
February 21, 1801 Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, composer
February 21, 1801 John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author (Dream of Gerontius)
March 15, 1801 Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer
March 23, 1801 Peterus D Regout, Dutch industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht)
April 7, 1801 Henry Eagle, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
April 11, 1801 Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin)
April 12, 1801 Henry de Cock, Dutch reformed vicar/secession leader
April 12, 1801 Josef Franz Karl Lanner, Austria, composer/violist
May 6, 1801 George Sears Greene, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
May 9, 1801 Samuel Cousins, mezzotint engraver
May 16, 1801 William Henry Seward, Secretary of State (1861-69, buys Alaska at 2›/acre)
June 1, 1801 Brigham Young, painter/religious leader (Mormon church)/polygamist
June 3, 1801 Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer
June 4, 1801 James Pennethorne, architect
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