Roman Catholic leader (died 1852) 3 April – Anne Lister, landowner, diarist, mountaineer and traveller, "the first modern lesbian" (died 1840) 12 April – Provo Wallis, Admiral of the Fleet (died 1892) 17 April (bapt.) – William Cubitt, building and civil engineering contractor and politician (died 1863) 5 July – Samuel Bailey, philosopher and author (died 1870) 4 September – Robert Knox, Scottish-born surgeon, anatomist and zoologist (died 1862) 13 September – William Betty, child actor (died 1874) 22 September – Michael Faraday, scientist (died 1867) 29 October – John Elliotson, physician (died 1868) 26 December – Charles Babbage, mathematician and inventor (died 1871) Deaths 11 January – William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (born 1717) 25 January – George Augustus Selwyn, Member of Parliament (born 1719) 5 February – John Beard, operatic tenor and actor-manager (born c. 1716/17) 2 March – John Wesley, founder of Methodism (born 1703) 29 March – Elspeth Buchan, Scottish millenarian prophet (born c. 1738) 19 April – Richard Price, Welsh-born philosopher (born 1723) 5 June – Frederick Haldimand, colonial governor (born 1718 in Switzerland) 12 June – Francis Grose, antiquary and lexicographer (born c. 1730) 17 June – Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, Methodist leader (born 1707) 12 August – Isabella Young, operatic mezzo-soprano and organist 16 November – Edward Penny, portrait and historical painter (born 1714) 27 December – John Monro, physician of Bethlem Hospital (born 1716) References Years in Great Britain