- Mar 6 Jan Kops, Dutch agronomist/vicar
- Mar 7 Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833)
- Mar 18 David H Chasse, Dutch baron/general (fought Napoleon at Waterloo)
- Mar 21 Henry Fagel, Dutch/English baron/diplomat
- Mar 27 Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologist, born in Munich (d. 1841)
- Apr 1 Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (d. 1810)
- Apr 28 Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician, born in Paris (d. 1843)
- Jun 1 Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Jun 5 Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician, born in Simmozheim (d. 1831)
- Jun 6 Cornelis Loots, Dutch accountant and poet (Dwingelandij), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1834)
- Aug 21 William IV, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1830-37), born in Buckingham House, London (d. 1837)
- Sep 18 Gregory XVI [Bartolomeo Alberto Mauro Cappellari], Pope (1831-1846), born in Belluno, Venetia, Austrian Empire (d. 1846)
- Sep 22 Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician (d. 1822)
- Sep 30 José María Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815)
- Oct 8 Harman Blennerhassett, Irish lawyer, born in Hampshire, England (d. 1831)
- Nov 4 Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician and engineer (fluid mechanics), born in Caen, France (d. 1836)
Robert Fulton
Nov 14 Robert Fulton, American inventor and engineer (first commercial steamboat), born in Little Britain, Pennsylvania (d. 1815)
Robert Fulton
Eli Whitney
Dec 8 Eli Whitney, American inventor (Cotton Gin), born in Westborough, Massachusetts (d. 1825)
Eli Whitney