- Jan 12 Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish historian/poet (Natthimmelen)
- Jan 20 Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
- Jan 23 Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle], French writer (Le Rouge et de Noir, a Chartreuse de Parme), born in Grenoble, France (d. 1842)
- Jan 29 Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus) [NS=Feb 9]