States Representative from Maine (d. 1841) December 10 – Raffaele Fidanza, Italian painter (d. 1846) December 11 Alfred Dockery, American Representative from North Carolina (d. 1875) Hiram Paulding, Rear Admiral in the United States Navy (d. 1878) December 12 Lucy Anderson, English pianist (d. 1878) Pierre Léonard Vander Linden, Belgian entomologist (d. 1831) December 13 – Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856) December 14 Antonio Maria Cagiano de Azevedo, Catholic Cardinal, holder of significant legal positions in the church (d. 1867) Emil Huschke, German anatomist, embryologist (d. 1858) December 15 Karl Friedrich Theodor Krause, German anatomist (d. 1868) Joseph Lecompte, United States Representative from Kentucky (d. 1851) Erik Røring Møinichen, Norwegian politician (d. 1875) Andrew Tracy, American politician (d. 1868) December 17 Richard Cheslyn, English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket (1825-1846) (d. 1858) Joseph Henry, American scientist (d. 1878) December 18 August Friedrich Wilhelm Forchhammer, jurist, historian from the Duchy of Schleswig (d. 1870) Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch jurist (d. 1845) December 19 – Antoine Louis Dugès, French obstetrician, naturalist (d. 1838) December 22 Charles Fox, English Quaker scientist (d. 1878) Thomas Manders, English actor-manager and low comedian (d. 1859) William Benjamin Robinson, Upper Canada fur trader and political figure (d. 1873) December 23 – Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1853) December 24 Robert Irwin Jr., American pioneer, territorial legislator (d. 1833) Lewis Jones, British Royal Navy officer (d. 1895) December 25 Bernard Donald Macdonald, second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (d. 1859) Joseph-Marie Quérard, French bibliographer (d. 1865) December 26 Enoch Cobb, Massachusetts farmer, businessman, philanthropist (d. 1876) Johann Gustav Heckscher, German politician (d. 1865) Thomas M. Pettit, United States lawyer (d. 1853) Hans Skramstad, Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 1839) December 27 Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos (d. 1867) Charles Hodge, Presbyterian theologian, principal of Princeton Theological Seminary (1851-1878) (d. 1878) Manuela Sáenz, Colombian national heroine (d. 1856) December 28 Rodolphus Dickinson, United States Representative from Ohio (d. 1849) John Marshall, English politician (d. 1836) December 29 – François Leuret, French anatomist, psychiatrist (d. 1851) approximate date – Sojourner Truth, African-American abolitionist, women's rights activist (d. 1883) Deaths January–March January 11 – Francis Lightfoot Lee, member of the House of Burgesses in the Colony of Virginia (b. 1734) January 13 – Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, queen consort of Prussia (b. 1715) January 19 – David Graeme, British Army general