Tassé, Canadian politician (d. 1832) August 12 Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie, historian from France (d. 1857) Hannah Kilham, Methodist missionary (d. 1832) Stephen Peter Rigaud, English mathematical historian and astronomer (d. 1839) Robert Southey, English romantic poet (d. 1843) August 13 Hipólito da Costa, Brazilian journalist and diplomat (d. 1823) John Wilson, Scottish landscape and marine painter (d. 1855) August 15 – François-Joseph-Marie Fayolle, French musicologist, man of letters and mathematician (d. 1852) August 17 George E. Blake, American music publisher (d. 1871) Stephan von Breuning, German librettist and author (d. 1827) August 18 Gaspard Laurent Bayle, French physician (d. 1816) Meriwether Lewis, American explorer, soldier and public administrator (d. 1809) August 19 – Denis-Benjamin Viger, Lower Canadian politician (d. 1861) August 20 Ludvig Frederik Brock, Norwegian military officer (d. 1853) Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara, Governor of Tamaulipas (d. 1841) August 22 François Aregnaudeau, French privateer captain (d. 1812) Bartholomäus Herder, German publisher (d. 1839) August 23 Pierre David de Colbert-Chabanais, French general (d. 1853) Jacob Crocheron, American politician (d. 1849) Mary Moody Emerson, American writer (d. 1863) William Plunkett Maclay, American politician (d. 1842) August 24 – Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn, German physician (d. 1848) August 25 – Samuel William Manthey, Norwegian politician (d. 1815) August 26 – Sir John Lubbock, 2nd Baronet, English banker, politician (d. 1840) August 28 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, co-founder of Mount St. Mary's University in the United States, founder of the Sisters of Charity (d. 1821) August 30 – Henri Van Assche, painter (d. 1841) August 31 – Charles Turner, English engraver (d. 1857) September September 1 George Platt, Canadian politician (d. 1816) Jane Stewart, Countess of Galloway, British noble (d. 1842) September 5 Enos Collins, Canadian businessman (d. 1871) Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (d. 1840) September 7 Johann Jakob Bernhardi, German physician and botanist (d. 1850) Colin Halkett, British Army general (d. 1856) September 8 Richard Ashley, English viola player (d. 1836) Anne Catherine Emmerich, German Augustinian Canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist (d. 1824) September 9 – Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Austrian banker and businessman (d. 1855) September 14 Lord William Bentinck, First Governor General of India British soldier and statesman (d. 1839) Georges Boisot, Minister of Interior of the Helvetic Republic (d. 1853) Henry Ridgely Warfield, American politician (d. 1839) September 15 Robert Hastings Hunkins, American politician (d. 1853) María Nicolasa de Iturbide, princess of Iturbide (d.