Uruguayan politician (d. 1842) Antonio Villavicencio, statesman and soldier of New Granada (d. 1816) January 10 – James Sewall Morsell, United States federal judge (d. 1870) January 13 – Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski, Polish noble (d. 1856) January 15 – Giosuè Sangiovanni, Italian zoologist (d. 1849) January 18 Pedro Moreno, Mexican soldier (d. 1817) Evelyn Pierrepont, British Member of Parliament (d. 1801) January 19 Hudson Gurney, English antiquary and verse-writer (d. 1864) George Pyke, Canadian politician (d. 1851) January 20 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1836) January 22 Manuel García, Spanish singer, teacher and composer (d. 1832) January 23 Pietro Colletta, Neapolitan general and historian (d. 1831) José Fernández Salvador, Ecuadorian politician and jurist (d. 1853) John Rubens Smith, London-born painter (d. 1849) January 27 – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (d. 1854) January 28 Lady Charlotte Bury, English novelist (d. 1861) James Brown Mason, American physician and legislator (d. 1819) January 30 – Walter Savage Landor, English writer and poet (d. 1864) January 31 Giordano Bianchi Dottula, Italian writer and politician (d. 1846) John Richard Farre, English physician (d. 1862) February 1 Philippe de Girard, French engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame in 1810 (d. 1845) Jochum Nicolay Müller, Norwegian naval officer who (d. 1848) February 2 – Gurun Princess Hexiao of the Manchu dynasty (d. 1823) February 3 Maximilien Sébastien Foy, French military leader (d. 1825) Louis-François Lejeune, French general, painter and printmaker (d. 1848) February 8 Jacob Liv Borch Sverdrup, Norwegian educator (d. 1841) Antonio Bertoloni, Italian botanist who made extensive studies of Italian plants (d. 1869) Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth, British politician (d. 1855) February 9 Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1856) Theodor Hell, pseudonym of Karl Gottfried Theodor Winkler, German man of letters (d. 1856) February 10 Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 1834) James Wilkes Maurice, British Royal Navy officer during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (d. 1857) Ádám Récsey, Prime Minister of Hungary (October 3–7, 1848) (d. 1852) February 11 – William Hall, American politician (d. 1856) February 12 – Charles Lloyd, English poet (d. 1839) February 14 – William Clift, English medical illustrator and conservator (d. 1849) February 15 Paul Allen, American author and editor (d. 1826) Miguel Ramos Arizpe, Mexican priest (d. 1843) February 17 Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath, German portrait painter (d. 1844) Frederick Garling, English attorney and solicitor (d. 1848) February 18 –