Singapore (d. 1826) John D. Sloat, American naval officer (d. 1867) July 27 – Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1829) September 3 – Eugène de Beauharnais, French nobleman, son of Napoleon's wife Joséphine (d. 1824) September 5 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor and composer (d. 1858) October 5 – Bernard Bolzano, Czech philosopher and mathematician (d. 1848) November 1 – Joseph Karl Stieler, German painter (d. 1858) November 6 Lucy Aikin, English writer (d. 1864) Maha Bandula, Commander-in-chief of the Burmese military forces (d. 1825) November 20 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (d. 1854) November 29 – Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, teacher, philosopher, sociologist (d. 1865) November 30 – Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer, Australian pioneer (d. 1873) December 11 – Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist (d. 1868) date unknown Sanité Bélair, Haitian national heroine (d. 1802) Haji Shariatullah, Bengali Islamic scholar (d. 1840) William Williams of Wern, Welsh minister (d. 1840) Deaths January 12 – Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (b. 1691) January 15 – Mariana Victoria of Spain, Queen consort of Portugal (b. 1718) February 15 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author, philosopher (b. 1729) February 23 – George Taylor, Founding Father of the United States and signer of the Declaration of Independence March 17 – Johannes Ewald, Danish national dramatist and poet (b. 1743) March 18 – Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727) April 23 – James Abercrombie, British general (b. 1706) April 28 – Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723) May 3 – Charles Roe, English businessman (b. 1715) May 16 – Giacomo Puccini (senior), Italian composer (b. 1712) May 18 – Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian indigenous rebel leader (b. 1742) May 18 – Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua, Peruvian indigenous rebel leader (b. 1745) May 27 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (b. 1716) May 30 – John Conder, Independent English minister at Cambridge (b. 1714) July 18 – Padre Francisco Garcés, Spanish missionary (killed) (b. 1738) July 23 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (b. 1724) August 16 – Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719) September 7 – Lord Richard Cavendish (1752–1781), second son of William Cavendish (b. 1752) September 11 – Johann August Ernesti, German theologian and philologist (b. 1707) September 12 – Peter Scheemakers, Flemish sculptor (b. 1691) September 28 – William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford,