- Jan 20 André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Jan 27 Friedrich von Schelling, German philosopher (Views on Christianity), born in Leonberg, Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1854)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Jan 30 Walter Savage Landor, English poet and writer (Imaginary Conversations), born in Warwick, England (d. 1864)
- Feb 5 Margaretha J de Neufville, author (Small Pligten)
- Feb 9 Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (parallel axiom)
- Feb 10 Charles Lamb, British critic/poet/essayist (Essays of Elia), born in London, England (d. 1834)
- Feb 12 Louisa Adams, US First Lady (1825-29), born in London (d. 1852)
- Feb 18 Thomas Girtin, artist/watercolorist, born in London, England
- Apr 7 Francis C Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
- Apr 8 Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general/Napoleon's wife Marie lover
- Apr 21 Alexander Anderson, American engraver/illustrator (Shakespeare)
- Apr 22 Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen)
- Apr 23 J. M. W. Turner, English landscape painter (Shipwreck), born in Covent Garden, London, England (d. 1851)
- May 10 Robert Gray, Sea Captain (d. 1806)
- May 21 Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano
- Jun 12 Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal, born in Halle, Germany (d. 1851)
- Jul 9 Matthew Lewis, English novelist (The Monk), born in London (d. 1818)
- Jul 23 Francois-Eugene Vidocq, French criminal and police detective
- Jul 23 Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)
- Jul 25 Anna Symmes Harrison, 9th 1st lady (1841), born in Morristown, New Jersey (d. 1864)
- Aug 6 Louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme/General of France
- Aug 6 Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847)
- Aug 26 William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)
- Sep 5 Juan Martín Díez, El Empecinado (The Undaunted), Spanish guerrillero, born in Valladolid, Spain (d. 1825)
Laura Secord
Sep 13 Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine, born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts Bay (d. 1868)
Laura Secord
- Oct 12 Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader, born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1863)
- Nov 27 Joachim G le Sage ten Broek, Dutch notary/catholic foreman/publicist
- Dec 14 Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (d. 1852)
- Dec 14 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (d. 1860)
Jane Austen
Dec 16 Jane Austen, English novelist (Pride and Prejudice), born in Steventon, England (d. 1817)
Jane Austen