September 9 – Osgood Johnson, 5th Principal of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (d. 1837) September 11 – Francisca Zubiaga y Bernales, first lady of Peru, controversial socialite (d. 1835) September 27 – Samuel Francis Du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865) September 28 – Prosper Mérimée, French writer (d. 1870) September 29 – Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (d. 1872) September 30 – Gustav von Alvensleben, Prussian general (d. 1881) October 5 – Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, Danish-German painter (d. 1844) October 16 – Robert Stephenson, English civil engineer (d. 1859) November 11 – Adolf von Bonin, Prussian general (d. 1872) November 14 – Jacob Abbott, American writer (d. 1879) November 29 Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician (d. 1853) Gottfried Semper, German architect (d. 1879) December 5 – Fyodor Tyutchev, great Russian Romantic poet (d. 1873) December 6 – Susanna Moodie, English writer (d. 1885) December 11 – Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869) Date unknown Barbarita Nieves, Venezuelan mistress of José Antonio Páez (d. 1847) Deaths January–June January 1 – James Woodforde, English clergyman, diarist (b. 1740) January 18 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743) January 23 – Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725) February 1 – Anders Chydenius, Finnish priest, politician (b. 1729) February 3 – María Isidra de Guzmán y de la Cerda, Spanish scholar (b. 1768) February 9 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716) February 11 – Jean-François de La Harpe, French critic (b. 1739) February 18 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (b. 1719) February 20 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (b. 1713) February 22 – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, French Father of the American Revolution (b. 1726) February 23 – Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova, Russian serf actress, opera soprano (b. 1768) February 21 – Edward Despard, British revolutionary (b. 1751) March 14 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (b. 1724) March 28 – Peter Du Cane, Sr., British businessman (b. 1713) April 2 – Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, Scottish politician, judge (b. 1721) April 6 – William Hamilton, British diplomat, antiquary (b. 1730) April 7 Antoine de Bosc de la Calmette, Danish statesman, landscape architect (b. 1752) Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haitian revolutionary (b. 1743) April 14 – Christoph Anton Migazzi, Austrian Catholic bishop (b. 1714) April 24 – Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, French portrait painter (b. 1749) May 29 – Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, French writer (b. 1719) June 24 – Matthew Thornton, American signer of the