politician and diplomat (d. 1886) September 2 – Fredrika Runeberg, Finnish writer (d. 1879) September 7 – Henry Sewell, 1st Premier of New Zealand (d. 1879) September 16 – John Lenthall, American naval architect and shipbuilder (d. 1882) October 8 – Harriet Taylor, English philosophical writer (d. 1858) October 19 – Edward Bigge, English cleric, 1st Archdeacon of Lindisfarne (d. 1844). October 26 – Barbu Catargiu, 1st Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1862) October 29 – Anđeo Kraljević, Herzegovinian Catholic bishop (d. 1879) October 30 — Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln (d. 1885) November 15 – William McKinley, Sr., American ironmaster and politician, father of William McKinley (d. 1892) November 16 – Eduard von Fransecky, Prussian general (d. 1890) December 8 – Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (d. 1893) December 17 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American Quaker poet and abolitionist, abolitionist (d. 1892) Deaths January–June February 1 – Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet, British admiral (b. ca. 1758) February 5 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot, military leader (b. 1725) February 27 – Louise du Pierry, French astronomer (b. 1746) March 10 – Jean Thurel, French soldier (b. 1698) April 4 – Jérôme Lalande, French astronomer (b. 1732) April 10 – Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, regent of Weimar and Eisenach (b. 1739) May 10 – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725) May 13 – Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman, judge (b. 1721) May 17 – John Gunby, Maryland soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745) May 18 – John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop, man of letters (b. 1721) June 9 – Andrew Sterett, American naval officer (b. 1778) July–December July 13 – Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian-born cardinal, Jacobite claimant to the British throne (b. 1725) September 14 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (b. 1724) October 22 – Jean-François Houbigant, French perfumer (b. 1752) November 2 – Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Prime Minister of King Louis XVI of France (b. 1730) November 5 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss painter (b. 1741) November 8 Darejan Dadiani, Georgian queen consort (b. 1738) Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait, French engineer, hydrographer, politician, and Minister of the Navy (1799-1801) (b. 1752) November 23 – Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (b. 1747) November 26 – Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745) December 19 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)