of France (d. 1874) November 4 – Edmund Kean, English actor (d. 1833) November 7 Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (d. 1854) Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Serbian linguist, major reformer of the Serbian language (d. 1864) November 18 – Louis Daguerre, French artist, chemist (d. 1851) November 21 – Samuel Cunard, Canadian business, prominent Nova Scotian, founder of the Cunard Line (d. 1865) November 25 – Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian composer (d. 1863) December 10 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851) December 11 – Macacha Güemes, Argentine heroine (d. 1866) December 16 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist (d. 1855) December 17 – Jan Evangelista Purkyne, Czech anatomist, botanist (d. 1869) Date unknown Juana Galán, Spanish heroine (d. 1812) Shaka, Zulu king (d. 1828) Deaths January 1 – Arthur Middleton, American politician (b. 1742) January 4 – Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen, German prince (b. 1702) February 2 – Ignác Raab, Czech artist (b. 1715) February 5 – Hugh Farmer, British theologian (b. 1714) February 4 – Pompeo Batoni, Italian painter (b. 1708) February 13 Rudjer Boscovich, Croatian scientist, diplomat (b. 1711) Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman, diplomat (b. 1717) February 21 – Antonio Rodríguez de Hita, Spanish composer (b. 1722) February 28 – Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel, German princess (b. 1722) March 8 – Samuel Graves, British Royal Navy admiral (b. 1713) March 22 – Charles de Fitz-James, Marshal of France (b. 1712) April 2 – Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719) May 10 – William Watson, English physician, scientist (b. 1715) May 26 – Lord John Murray, British politician (b. 1711) May 28 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719) May 31 – Felix of Nicosia, Cypriot Catholic saint (b. 1715) June 10 – La Caramba (Maria Antonia Fernandez), Spanish flamenco singer and dancer (b. 1751) June 14 – Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun, German scientist (b. 1714) June 17 – José de Gálvez, Spanish politician (b. 1720) June 20 – Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (b. 1723) July 4 – Charles, Prince of Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715) July 25 – Arthur Devis, British artist (b. 1712) August 1 – Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptorist Order (b. 1696) August 7 – Francis Blackburne, English Anglican churchman, activist (b. 1705) August 13 – Marc Antoine René de Voyer, French noble (b. 1722) August 16 – John Ponsonby