Jurien de La Gravière, French admiral, naval historian, and biographer (d. 1892) December 6 – Ana María Martínez de Nisser, Colombian heroine, writer (d. 1872) December 8 – Henry Varnum Poor, American financial analyst (d. 1905) December 14 – Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, British Viceroy of India (d. 1862) December 17 – Vilhelm Petersen, Danish painter (d. 1880) December 24 – Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (d. 1894) Date unknown Louis du Couret, French explorer, military officer, and writer (d. 1867) Mohan Lal (Zutshi), Indian traveler (d. 1877) Deaths January 23 – Robert Craufurd, British general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1764) February 2 – Isaac Titsingh, Dutch scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador (b. 1745) March 7 – Isaac Swainson, English botanist (b. 1746) March 11 – Philip James de Loutherbourg, English artist (b. 1740) March 18 – John Horne Tooke, English politician and philologist (b. 1736) April 14 – William Nicholas (officer), English army officer, at the Siege of Badajoz (b. 1785) April 15 – Michael Atkins, Irish actor and theatre manager (b. 1746) April 20 – George Clinton, 4th Vice President of the United States (b. 1739) April 25 – Edmond Malone, Irish scholar (b. 1741) May 11 – Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762) May 12 – Martha Ballard, American diarist and midwife (b. 1734 or 1735) May 18 – John Bellingham, British assassin of Spencer Perceval (b. 1769) July 4 – Victurnien-Jean-Baptiste de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French general and politician (b. 1752) August 1 – Yakov Kulnev, one of the most popular Russian military leaders at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, general (b. 1763). August 12 Anna Strong, Patriot spy during the American Revolutionary War (b. 1740) William Booth, English farmer, hung for forgery (baptised 1776) August 30 – George Mathews, American army officer and politician (b. 1739) September 13 – Leonardo Bravo, Mexican general who fought in the Mexican War of Independence, father of Nicolas Bravo, executed (b. 1764) September 19 Auguste-Jean-Gabriel de Caulaincourt, French general (b. 1777) Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (b. 1744) September 21 – Emanuel Schikaneder, German dramatist, actor and singer (b. 1751) September 24 Pyotr Bagration, Russian general and prince of Georgian origin (b. 1765) Juana Galán, Spanish heroine (b. 1787) October 13 – Isaac Brock, British general (killed in action) (b. 1769) December 15 – Schneur Zalman, Polish rabbi and founder