1868) John Hill, United States Representative from North Carolina (d. 1861) April 12 – Zina Pitcher, American physician (d. 1872) April 13 – Stanislas Julien, French sinologist, Chair of Chinese at the Collège de France for over 40 years (d. 1873) April 15 Philip Dorsheimer, politician, New York State Treasurer (d. 1868) Michel Garicoïts, French Basque Roman Catholic priest, founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Bétharram (d. 1863) Adolphe Thiers, President of France and Prime Minister of France (d. 1877) April 17 William Beresford, British Conservative politician (d. 1883) John Ogilvie, Scottish lexicographer, editor of the Imperial Dictionary of the English Language (d. 1867) April 18 Thomas J. Drake, American lawyer, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (d. 1875) Richard Ryan, British biographer of Irish descent (d. 1849) April 19 Carlo Emanuele Muzzarelli, Italian clergyman (d. 1856) Jeronis de Soysa, pioneering Ceylonese entrepreneur, philanthropist (d. 1860) April 21 – George Stephen Benjamin Jarvis, Upper Canadian judge, political figure (d. 1878) April 23 Ranulph Dacre, New Zealand naval seaman (d. 1884) Giuseppe Ferlini, Italian combat medic turned explorer and treasure hunter (d. 1870) Penina Moise, United States poet (d. 1880) Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, German Romantic painter, illustrator (d. 1855) April 24 Henry Bliss, author, lawyer and provincial agent for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (d. 1873) Peter I. Borst, American politician, United States Representative from New York (d. 1848) April 26 – Albert Seerig, German surgeon, anatomist (d. 1862) April 27 Jean Victoire Audouin, French naturalist, entomologist, herpetologist, ornithologist, and malacologist (d. 1841) Eliphaz Fay, fourth president of Colby College (then called the Waterville College) in Maine (d. 1854) William B. Slaughter, United States politician (d. 1879) Linus Yale Sr., American inventor, manufacturer of locks (d. 1858) April 28 – John Richardson, Australian convict, accompanies several exploring expeditions as botanical collector (d. 1882) April 29 – Gideon Hard, American lawyer, politician (d. 1885) May 1 Pierre Nicolas Gerdy, French physician, native of Loches-sur-Ource (d. 1856) Johann Jakob Stähelin, Swiss theologian (d. 1875) May 2 Abraham Pineo Gesner, Canadian geologist and inventor (d. 1864) May 3 Heinrich Berghaus, German geographer (d. 1884) George Webster, English architect practising in Kendal (d. 1864) May 6 – Joseph Brackett, American religious leader, composer (d. 1882) May 7 Walter Colton, Chaplain for the United States Navy (d. 1851) Charles Frederick, Royal Navy officer, Third Naval Lord (d. 1875) Elizabeth Grant, British diarist (d.