June 21 – José María Pinedo, Argentinian naval commander (d. 1885) June 24 – Ernst Heinrich Weber, German physician, psychologist (d. 1878) July 5 – Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe, German pharmacist, botanist and bryologist (d. 1880) July 7 – Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria, Bavarian field marshal (d. 1875) August 25 – Luis José de Orbegoso, Peruvian general and politician, 11th and 12th President of Peru (d. 1847) August 27 – Giorgio Mitrovich, Maltese politician (d. 1885) September 1 – James Gordon Bennett, American newspaper publisher (d. 1872) September 6 – Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers, Marshal of France (d. 1878) September 7 – John William Polidori, English writer and physician (d. 1821) September 16 – Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer (d. 1870) September 18 – Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet, Decembrist (d. 1826) October 13 – James McDowell, American politician (d. 1851) October 15 – King Frederick William IV of Prussia (d. 1861) October 16 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman, author (d. 1876) October 26 – Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (d. 1872) October 31 – John Keats, English poet (d. 1821) November 2 – James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849) November 12 – Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (d. 1856) December 2 – Guillermo (William) Miller, English-born military leader in Peru (d. 1861) December 3 – Rowland Hill, English teacher, inventor and social reformer (d. 1879) December 4 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer, historian (d. 1881) December 10 – Matthias W. Baldwin, American locomotive manufacturer (d. 1866) December 21 – Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886) date unknown – Chief Oshkosh, Menominee chief (d. 1858) Deaths January–March January 3 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, entrepreneur (b. 1730) January 5 Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 6th Duke of Liria and Jérica, second surviving son of the Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart (b. 1792) Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch, German Prince-Bishop (b. 1716) January 10 – David Blackburn, Royal Navy officer (b. 1753) January 19 – Thomas Balguy, English churchman (b. 1716) January 21 – Samuel Wallis, English navigator January 22 – Richard Clinton, officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution (b. 1741) January 23 – John Sullivan, American General in the American Revolutionary War, delegate in the Continental Congress (b. 1740) January 25 – Morgan Edwards, British historian and minister (b. 1722) January 26 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German harpsichordist, composer (b. 1732) February 3 – Richard Edwards, naval