American bladesmith, creator of the original Bowie knife (d. 1870) May 4 – John McLeod Campbell, Scottish churchman (d. 1872) May 5 – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (d. 1864) May 6 – Roman Sanguszko, Polish noble (d. 1881) May 8 – Armand Carrel, French writer (d. 1836) May 9 John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859) Samuel Carter Hall, English journalist (d. 1889) May 30 – Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, German geometer (d. 1834) June 1 – Charles Fremantle, British Royal Navy officer (d. 1869) June 2 – Nicholas P. Trist, secretary to President Andrew Jackson of the U.S. (d. 1874) June 3 – Gustaw Potworowski, Polish activist (d. 1860) June 12 – Samuel Wright Mardis, American politician (d. 1836) June 17 – William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Irish astronomer (d. 1867) June 23 – Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician, social activist (d. 1846) June 30 – Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1873) July–December July 15 – Sidney Breese, American senator from Illinois, father of the Illinois Central Railroad (d. 1878) July 19 – Juan José Flores, 2-time President of Ecuador (d. 1864) July 21 – Constance Trotti, Belgian salonniére, culture patron (d. 1871) July 24 – Henry Shaw, American botanist (d. 1889) July 29 – George Bradshaw, English timetable publisher (d. 1853) July 31 – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (d. 1882) August 12 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist, writer and historian (d. 1864) August 20 – Bernhard Heine, German physician, bone specialist and inventor (d. 1846) August 22 Edward Bouverie Pusey, English churchman (d. 1882) Frank Stone, English painter (d. 1859) September 1 – Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli, Italian naturalist (d. 1874) September 22 – George Bentham, English botanist (d. 1884) October 14 – John Hogan, Irish sculptor (d. 1858) October 19 – Salome Sellers, American centenarian, last surviving person from the 18th century (d. 1909) October 23 – Henri Milne-Edwards, French zoologist (d. 1885) October 26 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (d. 1891) November 21 – Barney Aaron, English bare-knuckle boxer (d. 1850) December 3 – France Prešeren, Slovenian romantic poet (d. 1849) December 25 – John Phillips, English geologist (d. 1874) December 26 – Paul Curtis, American shipbuilder (d. nearly 1857) December 29 – Charles Goodyear, American inventor of the vulcanization process (d. 1860) Deaths January–June January 1 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (b. 1716) January 3 –