diplomat (d. 1849) Peter Frederik Wulff, Danish naval officer (d. 1842) November 27 – John Howard Kyan, British inventor (d. 1850) November 28 Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (d. 1825) Sir Richard King, 2nd Baronet, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1834) Princess Maria Antonia of Parma, Italian princess (d. 1841) November 29 Carl Johan Fahlcrantz, painter (d. 1861) Johann Gottfried Gruber, German literary critic (d. 1851) December December 1 – Alexander Leith, British Army officer, died 1859 (d. 1859) December 2 François-André Baudin, French naval officer (d. 1842) François-René Boussen, Belgian priest (d. 1848) December 3 – Giuseppe Federico Palombini, military general (d. 1850) December 4 – John Weyland, British writer and politician; (d. 1854) December 5 – Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1835) December 10 – Nicolas Morice, French navy officer (d. 1848) December 11 – David Bowen, Felinfoel, Welsh Baptist minister from Felinfoel (d. 1853) December 12 – William Henry, English chemist (d. 1836) December 13 Eline Heger, Danish actress (d. 1842) Nathan F. Dixon I, American politician (d. 1842) December 15 – Michel Ange Lancret, Engineer with the French Corps of Bridges and Roads (d. 1807) December 16 – Caroline Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, British noble (d. 1835) December 17 Andrew Jukes, British surgeon (d. 1821) Littleton Waller Tazewell, American politician (d. 1860) December 20 John Pasco, English admiral (d. 1853) Charles Richard Vaughan, British diplomat (d. 1849) December 21 John Thomas Barber Beaumont, British artist (d. 1841) James Ingram, English academic (d. 1850) December 23 – Ludwig von Vincke, politician, writer and jurist (d. 1844) December 26 – Ferdinand Oechsle, German inventor (d. 1852) December 27 Brenton Halliburton, Canadian judge (d. 1860) Ephraim Hart, American politician (d. 1839) Johann Philipp Neumann, Austrian physicist, librarian and poet (d. 1849) December 28 Mary Birkett Card, poet, abolitionist and feminist (d. 1817) Thomas Moore Musgrave, English postmaster and translator (d. 1854) December 29 – Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry, British politician (d. 1849) December 31 – John Pringle, British Army officer (d. 1861) date unknown – Sergey Glinka, Russian author, brother of Fyodor Glinka (d. 1847) Deaths January January 1 Thomas Hollis, English political philosopher and author (b. 1720) Jan Jerzy Plersch, Polish sculptor (b. 1704) January 7 Antoine Clériadus de Choiseul-Beaupré, French archbishop (b. 1707) Józef Andrzej Załuski, Polish bishop (b. 1702) January 9 – Jacques-François Blondel, French architect (b. 1705) January 13 Shem Drowne, American