statesman from the Grand Duchy of Hesse (d. 1870) August 8 George Peck, American Methodist clergyman (d. 1876) Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French painter (d. 1890) George Rykert, Upper Canada businessman, surveyor and political figure (d. 1857) William Walker, Quebec lawyer, political figure (d. 1844) August 9 Charles Allen, United States Representative from Massachusetts (d. 1869) Charles Robert Malden, British naval officer (d. 1855) Christian Wilhelm Niedner, German church historian, theologian (d. 1865) Archibald Yell, American politician, Representative from Arkansas (d. 1847) August 10 Guillaume Louis Cottrau, French composer, music publisher (d. 1847) Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Finnish entomologist, governor of the Viipuri province in the Grand Duchy of Finland (d. 1854) John M. Patton, Virginia politician, lawyer (d. 1858) Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, German botanist (d. 1848) August 11 – George Shillibeer, English coachbuilder (d. 1866) August 12 – Manuel Aguilar Chacón, Costa Rican head of state (d. 1846) August 13 – Horatio Chriesman, American surveyor, politician in Mexican Texas and participant in the Texas Revolution (d. 1878) August 14 – Robert Radcliffe, English first-class cricketer associated with Cambridge University (d. 1832) August 15 – James Black, Scottish-born Canadian clergyman (d. 1886) August 17 – Peter Broun, first Colonial Secretary of Western Australia (d. 1846) August 18 – Antoine Claudet, French photographer, artist who produced daguerreotypes (d. 1867) August 20 Johan Frederik Møller, Danish painter, photographer (d. 1882) John Sinclair, Archdeacon of Middlesex (d. 1875) Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian priest, physicist (d. 1873) August 21 Chauncey J. Fox, American politician from New York (d. 1883) John Montagu, Indian-born Tasmanian colonial secretary (d. 1853) John Iltyd Nicholl, Welsh Member of Parliament (d. 1853) August 22 Augustin-Magloire Blanchet, French Canadian Catholic prelate in the Pacific Northwest (d. 1887) Thomas Dale, British priest in the Church of England, Dean of Rochester (d. 1870) August 23 – Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, French mechanic, mathematician (d. 1886) August 24 John Cobbold, British brewer, railway developer and Conservative Party politician (d. 1882) Laufilitonga, 39th and last Tuokinai of Tonga (d. 1865) August 25 John P. Bigelow, American politician (d. 1872) Henrik Hertz, Danish poet (d. 1870) August 26 Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest (d. 1879) Sheldon Peck, American folk artist (d. 1869) August 27 John Bathurst Deane, South African-born English clergyman, schoolmaster, antiquary and author (d. 1887) Edwin James, American botanist (d. 1861) August 28 Ferenc Duschek, Hungarian politician (d. 1872) Karl Otfried Müller, German scholar,