September 25 – Joseph Badeaux, Canadian politician (d. 1835) October–December October 1 – Zaro Aga, Turkish-Kurdish possible supercentenarian (claimed to have been born this year or 1774; d. 1934) October 5 – Guillaume Dupuytren, French anatomist, military surgeon (d. 1835) October 16 Levi Barber, American surveyor, court administrator, banker and legislator (d. 1833) Lorenzo Dow, American Methodist preacher (d. 1834) October 18 Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais, French general (d. 1809) Heinrich von Kleist, German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer (d. 1811) November 7 – Richard Bassett (clergyman), Welsh cleric (d. 1852) November 13 – Kunwar Singh, Leader during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (d. 1858) November 14 – Nathaniel Claiborne, American politician (d. 1859) November 24 – Samuel Butts, American militia officer (d. 1814) December 1 – Thomas Bradford, British Army officer (d. 1853) December 4 – Juliette Récamier, French writer (d. 1849) December 10 – William Conner, American trader, politician (d. 1855) December 14 – Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon, Irish peer, landlord and colonial administrator (d. 1839) December 15 – Agostino Aglio, Italian painter, decorator and engraver (d. 1857) December 16 – Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, French champagne producer (d. 1866) December 21 – John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, Scottish peer, Whig politician (d. 1847) December 23 – Emperor Alexander I of Russia, Russian officer (d. 1825) December 24 – Barbara Spooner Wilberforce, wife of English abolitionist William Wilberforce (d. 1847) Date unknown Suleiman al-Halabi, Syrian student, assassin (d. 1800) Carlos Anaya, Uruguayan politician (d. 1862) Charles James Apperley, English sportsman, sporting writer (d. 1843) Carlo Armellini, Italian politician, activist and jurist (d. 1863) Mevlana Halid-i Bagdadi, Ottoman mystic (d. 1826) Connell James Baldwin, Irish soldier, civil servant (d. 1861) Karl Friedrich Becker, German educator, historian (d. 1806) Vicente Benavides, Chilean soldier (d. 1822) John Bennett (Hampshire cricketer) (d. 1857) William Bellinger Bulloch, U.S. Senator (d. 1852) Sophia Campbell, Australian artist (d. 1833) Abiel Chandler, U.S. philanthropist (d. 1851) John Claiborne, U.S. politician (d. 1808) Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste de Clarac, French artist, scholar and archaeologist (d. 1847) Thomas Cochran (judge), Canadian judge (d. 1804) Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean political figure (d. 1833) Thomas Day, American judge (d. 1855) Benjamin D'Urban, British general, colonial administrator (d. 1849) Tu'i Malila, Malagasy-born tortoise, longest living animal on record (d. 1965) Deaths January–March January 10 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719) January 12 – Hugh