islands his summer residence. Births January 20 – Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist, composer (d. 1860) January 23 – Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842) February 8 – Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont, French general, governor-general of French Algeria (d. 1837) February 16 – Stephen Cassin, United States Navy officer (d. 1857) March 8 – Hannah Van Buren, née Hoes, American wife of Martin Van Buren (d. 1819) April 3 – Washington Irving, American author (d. 1859) April 21 – Reginald Heber, English priest (d. 1821) ; re-printed 2015 by Facsimile Publisher and distributed by Gyan Books, New Delhi. May 1 – Vicente Rocafuerte, Ecuadorian politician, 2nd president of Ecuador (d. 1847) May 3 – José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st president of Peru and 2nd president of North Peru (d. 1858) May 25 – Philip P. Barbour, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1841) May 27 – John Crawfurd, Scottish physician, colonial administrator, diplomat and author. Last British Resident of Singapore (d. 1868) June 19 – Friedrich Sertürner, German pharmacist who discovered morphine in 1804 (d. 1841) June 21 – Theodosia Burr, First Lady of South Carolina during War of 1812, daughter of Aaron Burr (d. 1813) July 24 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan patriot, revolutionary leader and statesman (d. 1830) July 28 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, German army officer and writer (d. 1860) August 7 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, member of the British Royal Family (d. 1810) August 26 – Federigo Zuccari, astronomer, director of the Astronomical Observatory of Naples (d. 1817) September 17 Samuel Prout, English painter (d. 1852) Nadezhda Durova, first female Russian army officer (d. 1866) October 31 – Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner, German chemist (d. 1857) Date unknown: The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal, sufferer from the rare condition Craniopagus parasiticus (d. 1787) Mary Anne Whitby, English scientist (d. 1850) Deaths January 2 – Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss author (b. 1698) January 7 – William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1706) January 15 – William Alexander, Lord Stirling, American major-general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (b. 1726) January 18 – Jeanne Quinault, French actress, playwright (b. 1699) February 6 – Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716) February 10 – James Nares, English composer of mostly sacred vocal works (b. 1715) March 2 – Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor (b. 1707) March