Charles Grey
Mar 13 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Whig: 1830-34), born in Fallodon, Northumberland, England (d. 1845)
Charles Grey
- Apr 3 John Abernethy, English surgeon, born in London, England (d. 1831)
- Apr 12 Dirk van den Boetzelaer, Regent of Holland, born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 1819)
- Apr 13 Laurent, 1st Marquis of Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal, born in Toul, Three Bishoprics, France (d. 1830)
- May 1 Benjamin Henry Latrobe, American architect (completed U.S. Capitol), born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England (d. 1820)
- May 3 Élisabeth of France, princess of France, youngest sister of king Louis XVI, born in Versailles, France (d. 1794)
- May 5 Robert Craufurd, British general, born in Newark Castle, Ayrshire (d. 1812)
- May 20 J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/lithographer
- May 28 Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman, born in Columbia County, New York (d. 1836)
- Jun 19 John Barrow, 1st Baronet, English statesman and founder of the Royal Geographical Society, born in Ulverston, Lancashire, England (d. 1848)
- Jun 19 Jose Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan revolutionary leader and national hero who is regarded as the father of Uruguayan independence, born in Montevideo (d. 1850)
- Jun 21 Sidney Smith, British admiral, born in Westminster, London (d. 1840)
- Jul 9 Ann Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Romance of the Forest), born in London (d. 1823)
- Aug 13 Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general, born in Paris (d. 1816)
- Aug 20 Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies
- Aug 22 Charles Percier, French architect, born in Paris (d. 1838)
- Sep 17 John Goodricke, English deaf astronomer (first to notice that some variable stars were periodic), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1786)
- Sep 25 Fletcher Christian, English sailor who led the mutiny on the HMS Bounty, born in Eaglesfield, Cumberland, England (d. ~1790-93)
- Nov 5 Pieter Nieuwland, Dutch scientist and mathematician (known as "Dutch Isaac Newton"), born in Diemermeer (d. 1794)
- Nov 22 Barbara Juliane, baroness von Krüdener, Baltic German religious mystic, author, and Pietist Lutheran theologian, born in Riga, Latvia (d. 1824)
- Dec 3 Mary Lamb, British author (Tales from Shakespeare), born in London, England (d. 1847)
- Dec 7 Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, French marshal, born in Lamarche, France (d. 1841)