Martino, prime minister of Sardinia (d. 1849) January 21 – William Machin Stairs, Canadian businessman, statesman (d. 1865) February 22 – René Edward De Russy, Brigadier General of the United States Army, Superintendent of the United States Military Academy and military engineer (d. 1865) March 16 – Georg Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854) April 15 – Diego Noboa, 4th President of Ecuador (d. 1870) April 22 – Manuel Gómez Pedraza, 6th President of Mexico (d. 1851) May 1 – George Fife Angas, English coachbuilder, businessman, and politician; founder of South Australia (d. 1879) May 24 – Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress June 8 – Queen Sunwon, Korean regent (d. 1857) June 30 – Horace Vernet, French painter (d. 1863) July 19 – John Martin, English painter (d. 1854) August 6 – Friedrich List, German journalist (d. 1846) August 21 – Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857) August 28 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860) September 3 – Hannah Flagg Gould, American poet (d. 1865) September 4 – Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré, French botanist (d. 1854) September 15 – James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (d. 1851) September 28 – Richard Bright, English physician, "Father of Nephrology" (d. 1858) October 8 – William John Swainson, English naturalist, artist (d. 1855) November 5 – William Bland, Australian politician (d. 1868) December 15 Edward B. Dudley, North Carolina governor (d. 1855) Carlos Soublette, two-time President of Venezuela (d. 1870) December 22 – Levi Woodbury, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1851) December 25 – Elizabeth Jesser Reid, English social reformer, founder of Bedford College (d. 1866) December 28 – Catharine Sedgwick, American writer (d. 1867) date unknown – Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq, Urdu poet (d. 1854) Deaths January 1 – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b. 1716) January 4 Johan Jacob Bruun, Danish artist (b. 1715) Thomas Nelson Jr., American signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Virginia (1781) (b. 1738) January 8 – Jack Broughton, English boxer (b. 1703) January 10 – James Mitchell Varnum, American brigadier general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman for Rhode Island (b. 1748) January 13 – Joseph Spencer, American major general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman for Connecticut (b. 1714) January 23 – Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724) January 25 – James Randolph Reid, American Continental Congressman for Connecticut (b. 1750)