Thomas Girtin, English painter and etcher (d. 1802) February 19 John Bibby, founder of the British Bibby Line shipping company (d. 1840) Giovanni Battista Comolli, Italian sculptor (d. 1831) February 20 Guy-Victor Duperré, French naval officer and Admiral of France (d. 1846) Israel Gregg, first captain of the historic American steamboat Enterprise (1814) (d. 1847) John Starr, merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia (d. 1827) February 21 Jean-Baptiste Girard, French soldier (d. 1815) Claudius Herrick, American educator and minister (d. 1831) February 22 William Seymour, United States Representative from New York (d. 1848) February 24 Claudius Hunter, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1851) Matěj Kopecký, Czech puppeteer (d. 1847) Edward St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset, English landowner and amateur mathematician (d. 1855) February 25 – John Caldwell, businessman and politician in Lower Canada (d. 1842) February 26 – Adolf Stieler, German cartographer and lawyer (d. 1836) February 28 – Sophie Tieck, German poet (d. 1833) March 3 – Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley, British politician (d. 1854) March 4 – Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger, Austrian portrait painter (d. 1837) March 5 Charlotte Richardson, English poet (d. 1825) Adam Elias von Siebold, German gynecologist (d. 1828) March 9 Jean Kickx, Belgian botanist and mineralogist (d. 1831) Constance Mayer, French painter (d. 1821) March 10 Marc-Antoine Jullien de Paris, French journalist (d. 1848) Sir David Wedderburn, 1st Baronet, Scottish businessman and politician (d. 1858) March 11 Nils Landmark, Norwegian politician (d. 1859) Pierre Jean François Turpin, French botanist and illustrator (d. 1840) March 12 Joseph Chitty, English lawyer and legal writer (d. 1841) Henry Eckford, Scottish-born American shipbuilder, naval architect, industrial engineer, entrepreneur (d. 1832) Michel Grendahl, Norwegian politician (d. 1849) James Welsh, English officer in the Madras Army of the East India Company (d. 1861) March 14 – Samuel Street Jr., businessman in Upper Canada (d. 1844) March 15 – Juan Bautista Arismendi, Venezuelan patriot and general of the Venezuelan War of Independence (d. 1841) March 17 – Ninian Edwards, founding political figure of the state of Illinois (d. 1833) March 19 – Ramsay Richard Reinagle, English painter (d. 1862) March 22 Johan Collett, Norwegian politician and public administrator (d. 1827) Jack Crawford, British Royal Navy sailor, "Hero of Camperdown" (d. 1831) Armand Gouffé, French poet (d. 1845) March 23 – William Haseldine Pepys, English physical scientist (d. 1856) March 24 Pauline Auzou, French painter and art