July 26 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer, pianist (d. 1844) September 5 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864) September 21 – István Széchenyi, Hungarian politician, writer (d. 1860) September 22 – Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867) September 23 Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865) Theodor Körner, German author, soldier (d. 1813) September 26 – Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824) October 29 – John Elliotson, British physician (d. 1868) November 11 – Josef Munzinger, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1855) December 7 – Ferenc Novák, Hungarian Slovene song collector and priest (d. 1836) December 26 – Charles Babbage, British mathematician, inventor (d. 1871) approximate date – Enriqueta Favez, Swiss-born physician, surgeon (d. 1856) Deaths January 11 – William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717) January 23 – Johann Phillip Fabricius, German missionary (b. 1711) March 2 – John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703) March 10 – William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1722–1791), England (b. 1722) March 14 – Johann Salomo Semler, German historian, Bible commentator (b. 1725) March 31 – Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney of Ireland (b. 1714) April 2 – Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French revolutionary leader (b. 1749) April 19 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723) April 24 – Benjamin Harrison V, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1726) May 9 – Francis Hopkinson, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1737) June 5 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718) June 10 – Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720) June 17 – Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Methodist leader (b. 1707) June 30 – Jean-Baptiste Descamps, Flemish painter and art historian (b. 1714) July 9 – Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu, French engraver (b. 1716) July 17 – Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717) July 25 – Isaac Low, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1735) August 22 – Johann David Michaelis, German biblical scholar and teacher (b. 1717) September 25 – William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719) October 7 – Mary Frances of the Five Wounds, Italian Franciscan saint (b. 1715) October 12 Anna Louisa Karsch, German poet (b. 1722) Peter Oliver, Massachusetts colonial judge (b. 1713) October 16 – Grigory Potemkin, Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman and favourite of Catherine the Great (b. 1739) November 4 – Richard Butler, American soldier