(d. 1817) May 8 – John Heath, U.S. Representative for Virginia (d. 1810) May 15 – Thomas Taylor, English neoplatonist translator (d. 1835) May 17 Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English fossil collector (d. 1839) Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco (d. 1819) June 19 – Raffaello Sanzio Morghen, Italian engraver (d. 1833) June 29 – Clotilde Tambroni, Italian philologist, linguist (d. 1817) July 25 – Elizabeth Hamilton, English writer (d. 1816) July 31 – Rosalie de Constant, Swiss naturalist (d. 1834) July 31 – Jeremiah Colegrove, U.S. farmer, manufacturer and soldier (d. 1836) August 5 – Emperor Go-Momozono of Japan (d. 1779) August 14 – Carle Vernet, French painter (d. 1835) August 24 Thomas Picton, British soldier, colonial governor (k. 1815) August 25 – Israel Pellew, English naval officer (d. 1832) September 9 – Alexander Nasmyth, Scottish portrait and landscape painter (d. 1840) September 10 – Hannah Webster Foster, U.S. novelist (d. 1840) September 18 – Louis Friant, French Napoleonic soldier (d. 1829) September 20 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, leader of the Haitian Revolution (d. 1806) September 21 Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, French linguist, orientalist (d. 1838) Christopher Gore, U.S. lawyer, politician (d. 1827) September 25 – Maria Anna Thekla Mozart called Marianne, known as Bäsle ("little cousin"), cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1841) September 26 – Cosme Argerich, Argentine Surgeon General (d. 1820) September 29 Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805) Fanny von Arnstein, Austrian salonnière (d. 1802) October 5 – Seymour Fleming, British noblewoman (d. 1818) October 6 – Watkin Tench, British Marine officer (d. 1833) October 11 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German astronomer (d. 1840) October 15 – Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, German sculptor (d. 1841) October 16 – Noah Webster, U.S. lexicographer (d. 1843) October 22/6 – Vincenzo Dandolo, Italian chemist, agriculturist (d. 1819) October 28 – John Sibthorp, English botanist (d. 1796) October 28 – Joseph-François-Louis-Charles de Damas, French general (d. 1829) October 31 – Thomas Gisborne, Anglican priest, abolitionist (d. 1846) November 5 – Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, French botanist (d. 1831) November 11 Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer (d. 1832) Caleb P. Bennett, U.S. soldier, politician (d. 1836) November 16 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author, philologist (d. 1841) December 5 – George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans (d. 1787) December 9 – Richard Colt Hoare, English antiquarian, archaeologist (d. 1838) December 21 – Jean Baptiste