November 28 – John Lloyd Stephens, American traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist (d. 1852) December 2 – Cicero Price, American commodore (d. 1888) December 10 – William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist (d. 1879) December 12 – Henry Wells, American businessman, founder of Wells Fargo (d. 1878) December 22 – John Obadiah Westwood, English entomologist (d. 1893) December 23 – Joseph Smith, American religious leader, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement (d. 1844) December 31 – Jeanne Deroin, French socialist and feminist (d. 1894) Undated Maiden of Ludmir, Jewish religious leader (d. 1888) James Pratt, last of two men to be executed in UK for homosexuality (d. 1835) Cochise, Indigenous American (Apache) leader (d. 1874) Jesse Chisholm, Indigenous American (Cherokee) fur trader and merchant (d. 1868) Deaths January–June January 7 – Ebenezer Sproat, American Continental Army officer, pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1752) January 9 – Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723) January 17 – Paschen von Cossel, German lawyer (b. 1714) January 18 – John Moore (archbishop of Canterbury) (b. 1730) January 23 – Claude Chappe, French telecommunication pioneer (b. 1763) February 2 – Thomas Banks, English sculptor and artist (b. 1735) February 11 – Queen Jeongsun, Korean regent (b. 1745) February 20 – Justus Claproth, German jurist, inventor of the de-inking process of recycled paper (b. 1728) February 25 – Thomas Pownall, English colonial statesman (b. 1722) March 4 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725) May 7 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737) May 9 – Friedrich Schiller, German playwright (b. 1759) May 12 – Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim, 71st Grandmaster of the Order of Malta (b. 1744) May 25 William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743) Anna Maria Rückerschöld, Swedish author (d. 1725) May 28 – Luigi Boccherini, Tuscan-born composer (b. 1743) June 3 – Princess Louise of Saxe-Meiningen, Landgravine of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (b. 1752) June 18 – Arthur Murphy, Irish writer (b. 1727) June 19 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724) July–December July 31 – Dheeran Chinnamalai, Tamil king (b. 1756) August 3 – Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724) August 28 Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722) Christopher Gadsden, American statesman (b. 1724) September 27 – William Moultrie, American general (b. 1730) September 28 – Christoph Franz von Buseck, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (b. 1724) October 5 Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis,