politician), U.S. Representative (d. 1840) March 13 – Charles Lot Church, Nova Scotia politician (d. 1864) March 17 Patrick Brontë, Irish Anglican curate and writer; father of writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë (d. 1861) Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1864) March 19 – José María Bustamante, Mexican composer (d. 1861) March 28 – Antoine Germain Labarraque, French chemist (d. 1850) April–June April 11 – William Addams, United States Congressman (d. 1858) April 12 – Henry Clay, American politician (d. 1852) April 16 – John Alexander (Ohio politician), U.S. Representative (d. 1848) April 30 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer and physicist (d. 1855) May 4 – Richard Bourke, Australian governor (d. 1855) May 8 – Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar, Finnish-Karelian folksinger (d. 1846) May 11 – Samuel Bridger, English cricketer May 12 – Mary Reibey, Australian businessperson (d. 1855) May 18 – John George Children, British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (d. 1852) June 1 – Fernando Errázuriz Aldunate, president of Chile (d. 1841) June 12 – Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837) June 14 – Heman Allen (of Milton), U.S. Representative (d. 1844) June 15 – David Daniel Davis, British physician (d. 1841) June 22 Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz, Polish-born Catholic archbishop of Prague (d. 1838) William Brown (admiral), Irish-born first admiral of Argentina (d. 1857) June 23 – Frederick Bates, American politician (d. 1825) July–September July – Thomas Clayton, American lawyer, politician (d. 1854) July 9 Henry Hallam, English historian (d. 1859) Paavo Ruotsalainen, Finnish farmer and lay preacher (d. 1852) July 23 – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810) July 26 – Robert Hamilton Bishop, Scottish-American educator, minister (d. 1855) July 27 Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes, German physicist (d. 1834) Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (d. 1844) Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, British peer, soldier (d. 1853) July 31 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman, priest (d. 1849) August 11 – Giuseppe Bossi, Italian painter (d. 1815) August 12 – George Wolf, American politician (d. 1840) August 14 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (d. 1851) August 23 – Princess Adélaïde of Orléans, French princess (d. 1847) August 29 – Nikita Bichurin (Hyacinth), Russian monk (d. 1853) August 31 – Alexander Bashilov, Russian general (d. 1847) September 9 – James Carr (Massachusetts politician), U.S. Congressman (d. 1818) September 12 – Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, French zoologist, anatomist (d. 1850)