Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Apr 27 English writer and feminist (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman), mother of Mary Shelley, born in London
- May 1 Jacob Albright, German-American Christian leader, founder of Albright's People (Evangelical Association), born in Fox Mountain, Pennsylvania (d. 1808)
- May 6 François Andrieux, French playwright, born in Strasbourg, France (d. 1833)
- May 20 William Thornton, British-American architect (Capitol Building in Washington, D.C), born in Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands (d. 1828)
William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806)
May 28 British Prime Minister (Tory: 1783-1801, 1804-06), born in Hayes, Kent, England
- Jun 2 Jan Ekels, the Young, Dutch painter, born in Amsterdam (d. 1793)
- Jun 8 Thomas Dunham Whitaker, British topographer, born in Rainham, Norfolk (d. 1821)
- Jun 21 Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier, born in Kingston, Jamaica (d. 1817)
- Jul 19 Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint, born in Kursk, Russian Empire (d. 1833) [OS]
- Jul 24 Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21), born in Royal Palace of Turin, Italy (d. 1824)
William Wilberforce (1759-1833)
Aug 24 British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade, born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England
- Sep 19 William Kirby, English entomologist and original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, born in Witnesham, Suffolk, England (d. 1850)
- Sep 26 Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian Generalfeldmarschall, born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1830)
- Oct 4 Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (Du calcul des derivations), born in Mutzig, France (d. 1803)
- Oct 13 Ecco Epkema, Dutch classic linguist (Frisian, old-Frisian), born in Wirdum, Netherlands (d. 1832)
- Oct 20 Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815)
- Oct 25 Maria Feodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia, born in Stettin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1828)
William Grenville (1759-1834)
Oct 25 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Whig: 1806-07), born in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England
Georges Danton (1759-1794)
Oct 26 French politician and revolutionary (1st president of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution), born in Arcis-sur-Aube, France
