French painter (d. 1875) July 22 – Carlo Pepoli, Italian politician, journalist (d. 1881) July 23 – Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868) August 15 – John Torrey, American botanist (d. 1873) August 25 – James Lick, American land speculator (d. 1876) September 4 – Karl Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld, Prussian field marshal (d. 1884) September 10 – Eugénie Niboyet, French author, feminist (d. 1883) September 19 – Hartley Coleridge, British poet (d. 1849) September 22 – David Canabarro, Brazilian Gaúcho revolutionary (d. 1867) September 25 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875) October 23 – Stefano Franscini, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1857) November 25 – Andreas von Ettingshausen, German mathematician, physicist (d. 1878) November 30 – Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869) December 17 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian author (d. 1865) December 19 – Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (d. 1873) December 27 Mirza Ghalib, Persian poet of Urdu (d. 1869) Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877) Date unknown Du Bois Agett, early settler of Western Australia (d. 1866) Edwin Beard Budding, English engineer and inventor of the lawnmower (d. 1846) Mirza Shafi Vazeh, Azeri poet (d. 1852) Deaths January–March January 1 Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde French musician and chemist (b. 1735) Giambattista Vasco, Italian economist (b. 1733) January 5 – Samuel Huntington, Connecticut jurist (b. 1731) January 5 – Anna Barbara Reinhart, Swiss mathematician (b. 1730) January 13 – John Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726) February 7 – Sir Francis Geary, 1st Baronet, officer of the British Royal Navy (b. 1709) February 14 – Samuel Pegge, English antiquary (b. 1704) February 15 – John Caesar Australian bushranger of African descent (b. 1763) February 17 – James Macpherson, Scottish writer (b. 1736) February 25 – Jean-Nicolas Stofflet, French royalist general (executed) (b. 1751) February 28 – Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, German violinist (b. 1739) March 1 – Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Swedish architect and civil servant (b. 1716) March 3 – Pierre-René Rogue, French Catholic priest, member of the Congregation of the Mission (b. 1758) March 6 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer, man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment (b. 1713) March 10 William Chambers, Scottish-Swedish architect (b. 1723) John Forbes, British Royal Navy officer (b. 1714) March 12 – Franz Töpsl, Augustinian Canon Regular (b. 1711) March 16 – Joseph Gerrald, Scottish political reformer (b. 1763) March 19