instructor (d. 1835) Pierre Berthezène, French Army general (d. 1847) Muthuswami Dikshitar, South Indian poet and composer (d. 1835) March 25 – John Johnston, United States Indian agent (d. 1861) March 26 – Thomas Monteagle Bayly, Virginian politician, lawyer and planter (d. 1834) March 27 – Nicolai Abraham Holten, Danish civil servant and director of Øresund Custom House (d. 1850) March 28 – Johann Heinrich Gossler, Hamburg banker and grand burgher (d. 1842) March 30 – Hieronymus Karl Graf von Colloredo-Mansfeld, Austrian corps commander during the Napoleonic Wars (d. 1822) April–June April 2 John Higton, English animal painter (d. 1827) Calvin Jones, American politician (d. 1846) Moses Walton, Virginia farmer serving in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly (d. 1847) April 4 – Dutch Sam, British boxer (d. 1816) April 5 – Johann Nepomuk Rust, Austrian surgeon (d. 1840) April 6 – Edward Wynne-Pendarves, English politician (d. 1853) April 7 Eliza Jumel, American socialite (d. 1865) Francis Cabot Lowell, American businessman (d. 1817) Louis Barbe Charles Sérurier, French diplomat (d. 1860) April 8 Antoine Charles Cazenove, Swiss-American businessman and diplomat (d. 1852) Adam Albert von Neipperg, Austrian general and statesman (d. 1829) Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford, British peer (d. 1825) April 9 – Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada, Brazilian politician, leader in Brazil's independence and government (d. 1844) April 10 – Carl Wigand Maximilian Jacobi, German psychiatrist (d. 1858) April 12 Christian Samuel Theodor Bernd, German linguist and heraldist (d. 1854) Vito Nunziante, Italian general (d. 1836) April 13 – Adolph Henke, German physician (d. 1843) April 14 Karl Becker, German philologist (d. 1849) John Philip, Scottish-born missionary in South Africa (d. 1851) April 16 Sylvester Maxwell, American lawyer and legislator (d. 1858) Charles Stewart, English Anglican bishop in Lower Canada (d. 1837) April 21 Alexander Anderson, American physician and illustrator (d. 1870) Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, British politician (d. 1851) April 22 Georg Hermes, German Roman Catholic theologian (d. 1831) Henry Ryan, US-Canadian Methodist minister (d. 1833) April 23 – J. M. W. Turner, English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker (d. 1851) April 25 William Warren Baldwin, Canadian politician (d. 1844) Alexander Johnston, Sri Lankan judge (d. 1849) Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Queen consort of Portugal (d. 1830) April 27 – Pietro Ostini, Catholic cardinal (d. 1849) April 28 William Capel, English sportsman and clergyman (d. 1854) Loftus William Otway, British Napoleonic Wars general