Births February 14 – Hanne Tott, Danish circus artist, circus manager (d. 1826) March 16 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (d. 1835) March 20 – Heinrich Clauren, German author (d. 1854) March 25 – Germanos III of Old Patras, Greek Metropolitan Bishop of Patras (d. 1826) April 3 – Hans Nielsen Hauge, Norwegian revivalist, entrepreneur (d. 1824) April 13 – Richard Trevithick, English inventor (d. 1833) April 18 – Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820) April 27 – Jean Rapp, French general (d. 1821) May 1 – Cajsa Wahllund, Finnish restaurateur (d. 1843) May 11 – Laskarina Bouboulina, Greek independence heroine (d. 1825) May 14 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858) May 16 – Louis Henri Loison, French general (d. 1816) June 5 – Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (d. 1851) June 24 – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French-American chemist, industrialist (d. 1834) August 15 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, poet (d. 1832) September 5 – Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general, statesman (d. 1847) September 11 – Mungo Park, Scottish explorer (d. 1806) September 17 – Johann August Apel, German writer, jurist (d. 1816) September 23 – Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (d. 1840) October 9 – Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1815) October 23 – Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813) November 14 – Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and pathologist (d. 1802) December 14 – Regina von Siebold, German physician and obstetrician (d. 1849) December 27 – William Johnson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1834) Unknown – William Lloyd, Welsh Anglican priest turned schoolteacher and Methodist preacher (d. 1841) Deaths January 5 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (b. 1710) January 11 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (b. 1704) January 23 – Jean Charles de Saint-Nectaire, French general (b. 1685) February 12 – Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (b. 1710) February 20 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (b. 1678) March 8 – Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688) March 20 – Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter (b. 1707) May 21 – Christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722) May 27 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury, English philanthropist (b. 1711) June 5 – Samuel Phillips (reverend), colonial American minister, 1st Pastor of the South Church in Andover (b. 1690) June 8 – George Montagu-Dunk,