Maryland (d. 1879) August 12 – Ion Ghica, 3-time prime minister of Romania (d. 1897) August 14 – Félix Douay, French general (d. 1879) August 16 – Charles John Vaughan, English scholar (d. 1897) August 21 – Jeanette Berglind, Swedish sign language pedagogue (d. 1903) September 6 – Henri Jules Bataille, French general (d. 1882) September 11 – Carl Zeiss, German maker of optical instruments (d. 1888) October 11 – William B. Renshaw, United States Navy officer (d. 1863) October 22 – Prince Yamashina Akira of Japan (d. 1891) November 3 – Jubal Early, American Confederate general (d. 1894) November 4 – Stephen Johnson Field, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1899) November 17 – August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876) November 29 – Morrison Waite, American politician and Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1888) December 10 – August Karl von Goeben, Prussian general (d. 1880) December 13 – Werner von Siemens, German inventor, industrialist (d. 1892) December 14 – Abraham Hochmuth, Hungarian rabbi (d. 1889) December 29 – Carl Ludwig, German physician, physiologist (d. 1895) date unknown Wazir Akbar Khan, Afghan prince, general (d. 1845) Deaths January–June January 2 – Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, French chemist, politician (b. 1737) January 5 – George Prévost, British general, colonial administrator (b. 1767) January 27 – Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (b. 1724) February 6 – Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744) February 22 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher, historian (b. 1723) March 3 – Johann August von Starck, German pastor (b. 1741) March 19 – Philip Mazzei, Italian physician, friend of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1730) March 20 – Queen Maria I of Portugal (b. 1734) March 31 – Francis Asbury, American Methodist bishop (b. 1745) May 4 – Samuel Dexter, American lawyer, politician, 4th United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761) June 5 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1751) June 12 – Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France, duc de Castiglione (b. 1757) July–December July 5 – Dorothea Jordan, Irish-born actress, mistress of King William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1761) July 7 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish-born playwright, politician (b. 1751) July 14 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (b. 1750) July 27 – Olof Tempelman, Swedish architect (b. 1745) August 9 – Johann August Apel, German writer, jurist (b. 1771)