German-Lithuanian chemist (d. 1822) February 8 – Martín Miguel de Güemes Argentine military leader (d. 1821) February 10 – Claude-Louis Navier, French engineer, physicist (d. 1836) February 26 – Anna Sundström, Swedish chemist (d. 1871) March 11 John McLean, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1861) Eleonore Prochaska, German heroine soldier (d. 1805) March 17 – Ellen Hutchins, Irish botanist (d. 1815) March 27 – Louis XVII of France (d. 1795) April 4 – Bettina von Arnim, German poet (d. 1859) April 26 – John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, illustrator (d. 1851) April 29 – Karl Drais, German inventor, creator of a precursor to the bicycle (d. 1851) May 18 – John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854) May 20 – Marcellin Champagnat, French Catholic saint (d. 1840) May 22 – John Hindmarsh, English naval officer, first Governor of South Australia (d. 1860) July 6 – William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865) July 20 – Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1839) August 15 – Thomas de Quincey, English writer (d. 1859) August 23 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819) August 27 – Agustín Gamarra, Peruvian general and politician, 10th and 14th President of Peru (d. 1841) September 27 – David Walker, African-American abolitionist (d. 1830) October 15 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general, founding father (d. 1821) October 17 – Gunatitanand Swami, born Mulji Sharma, Indian paramahamsa of the Hindu Swaminarayan Sampraday sect (d. 1867) October 18 – Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (d. 1866) October 20 – George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873) November 11 – Diponegoro, Javanese Prince (d. 1855) November 18 – David Wilkie, Scottish painter (d. 1841) November 21 – William Beaumont, American physician and surgeon (d. 1853) November 28 – Victor de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (d. 1870) December 17 – Dorothea Lieven, Latvian diplomat, politically active princess (d. 1857) December 23 – Christian Gobrecht, American engraver, designer of the United States Seated Liberty coinage (d. 1844) December 26 – Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, 1st Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1871) Deaths January 3 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706) January 6 – Haym Salomon, Polish-Jewish American financier of the American Revolution (b. 1740) January 19 – Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar, critic (b. 1713) January 23 – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717) February 24 – Sir Thomas Dyke Acland,