the rest of his life. Births January–June January 12 – Johann Arfvedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841) February 10 – Frederick Marryat (Captain Marryat), English novelist and naval officer (d. 1848) February 17 – Karl Ernst von Baer, German naturalist (d. 1876) February 29 – Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer (d. 1868) March 3 – Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler, German church historian (d. 1854) March 4 Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist and publisher (d. 1886) Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861) March 7 – John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871) April 1 – Karl Gottlob Zumpt, German scholar (d. 1849) April 2 – Francisco de Paula Santander, President of Colombia (d. 1840) April 4 – Thaddeus Stevens, American politician (d. 1868) April 23 – Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer, physicist (d. 1882) April 25 – John Keble, English churchman, poet (d. 1866) May 10 – Willie Person Mangum, American politician (d. 1861) May 13 – Pope Pius IX (b. Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti), Italian churchman (d. 1878) May 15 – James Mayer de Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1868) May 17 – Anne Isabella Milbanke, English wife of Lord Byron (d. 1860) May 18 – Margaret Ann Neve, Guernesiaise supercentenarian (d. 1903) May 21 – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French engineer, scientist (d. 1843) June 13 – William Austin Burt, American inventor (Father of the typewriter), (d. 1858) June 16 – John Linnell, English painter (d. 1882) June 21 – Ferdinand Christian Baur, German theologian (d. 1860) July–December July 7 – William Henry Smith, British businessman (d. 1865) July 10 Captain Frederick Marryat, British author (d. 1848) July 27 – Maria Quitéria, Brazilian national heroine (d. 1853) August 4 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822) August 13 – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849) August 18 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878) August 22 – John Church Hamilton, American historian (d. 1882) August 26 – Manuel Oribe, 2nd President of Uruguay (d. 1857) September 2 – Vicente Ramón Roca, 3rd President of Ecuador (d. 1858) September 19 – William Backhouse Astor, Sr., American business tycoon (d. 1875) September 26 – William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand (d. 1842) October 29 – Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, explorer, Surveyor-General of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1855) November 4 – Carlos Antonio López, president of Paraguay (d. 1862) November 10 –