the Breslov Hasidic movement (d. 1810) April 5 – Domenico Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1815) April 7 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837) April 18 – David Ricardo, British economist (d. 1823) April 30 – Karl Gustav Himly, German surgeon, ophthalmologist (d. 1837) May 2 – Novalis, German poet (d. 1801) May 20 – William Congreve, British rocket pioneer (d. 1828) May 22 – Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu religious and social reformer (d. 1833) June 7 – Aurora Liljenroth, Swedish scholar (d. 1836) July 11 – John Rodgers, American naval officer (d. 1838) August 2 – Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien (d. 1804) August 15 – Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, German inventor (d. 1838) August 24 – King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1843) September 7 – Mark Newman, 3rd Principal of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts (d. 1859) September 27 – Martha Jefferson Randolph, Acting First Lady of the United States (1801-1809) (d. 1836) October 6 – Anna Maria Rüttimann-Meyer von Schauensee, politically active Swiss salonist (d. 1856) October 21 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and philosopher (d. 1834) October 25 – Géraud Duroc, French general (d. 1813) November 5 – Pierre Roch Jurien de La Gravière, French admiral (d. 1849) November 8 – William Wirt, 9th United States Attorney General (d. 1834) November 18 – Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (d. 1806) date unknown – Tuanku Imam Bonjol, Indonesian religious and military leader (d. 1864) approximate date Charlotte Dacre, English Gothic novelist (d. 1825) Lalon, Bengali philosopher, Baul saint, mystic, songwriter, social reformer and thinker (d. 1890) Deaths February 4 – Princess Victoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (b. 1715) February 8 – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (b. 1719) February 11 – Caterina Sagredo Barbarigo, Venetian aristocrat and salon holder (b. 1715) February 18 – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712) February 20 – Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein (b. 1694) March 21 – Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703) March 22 – John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718) March 26 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704) March 27 – Taylor White, British judge (b. 1701) March 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688) April 28 – Johann Friedrich Struensee, Danish royal physician (b. 1737) May 1 – Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (b. 1719) May 22 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b.