Editing 1796 (section)

=== April ===
* [[April 2]]
** [[Ana María Campos]], Venezuelan resistance fighter (d. [[1828]])
** [[Sébastien René Lenormand]], French phycologist (d. [[1871]])
** [[William Pickering (publisher)|William Pickering]], English publisher (d. [[1854]])
* [[April 3]]
** [[William Nairn Forbes]], British Army officer and civil engineer (d. [[1855]])
** [[Edward Livingston (speaker)|Edward Livingston]], American politician (d. [[1840]])
** [[Herbert Mayo]], British physiologist, anatomist and medical writer (d. [[1852]])
** [[Jean Ulveling]], Luxembourgian politician (d. [[1878]])
* [[April 6]]
** [[Isaac E. Holmes]], American politician (d. [[1867]])
** [[Alexander Nisbet (Royal Navy officer)|Alexander Nisbet]], British surgeon (d. [[1874]])
* [[April 8]]
** [[James Boggs (general)|James Boggs]], Virginia militia Confederate States Army Brigadier General (d. [[1862]])
** [[Alfred Bunn]], British businessman, librettist (d. [[1860]])
** [[Hygin-Auguste Cavé]], attorney, journalist, government official, amateur playwright (d. [[1852]])
** [[Frederik von Scholten]], Danish naval officer, customs inspector and amateur artist (d. [[1853]])
* [[April 9]]
** [[Date Chikamune]], daimyo (d. [[1812]])
** [[Elisha Huntington]], American physician and politician (d. [[1865]])
** [[Thomas Thynne, Viscount Weymouth]], British Member of Parliament (d. [[1837]])
* [[April 10]]
** [[James Bowie]], American pioneer, soldier, smuggler, slave trader, and land speculator (d. [[1836]])
** [[Thomas Burns (minister, born 1796)|Thomas Burns]], New Zealand minister (d. [[1871]])
** [[Thomas Fitzgerald (American politician)|Thomas Fitzgerald]], American politician (d. [[1855]])
* [[April 12]]
** [[George N. Briggs]], Massachusetts Governor and Congressman (d. [[1861]])
** [[William J. McCluney]], United States Navy officer (d. [[1864]])
** [[Baron du Potet]], French mesmerist (d. [[1881]])
* [[April 13]]
** [[Rosa Campuzano]], activist in the struggle for the independence of Peru (d. [[1851]])
** [[Andreas Gottlieb Hoffmann]], German academic (d. [[1864]])
* [[April 14]]
** [[Benjamin Bonneville]], Union Army General (d. [[1878]])
** [[Ramond de la Croisette]], French playwright (d. [[1849]])
** [[Frederik Due]], Norwegian Prime minister (d. [[1873]])
** [[Robert Lynam (writer)|Robert Lynam]], English cleric, schoolteacher, writer and editor (d. [[1845]])
* [[April 15]]
** [[John Sill Rogers]], politician (d. [[1860]])
** [[Marie-Alfred de Suin]], French admiral (d. [[1861]])
* [[April 17]]
** [[Richard Fish Cadle]], American Episcopalian priest (d. [[1857]])
** [[Dominique-Augustin Dufêtre]], French bishop (d. [[1860]])
** [[Stanisław Jachowicz]], Polish poet (d. [[1857]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Gloud Wilson McLelan]], Canadian politician (d. [[1858]])
* [[April 19]]
** [[Bernhard von Beskow]], Swedish dramatist and historian (d. [[1868]])
** [[Johann Baptist Friedreich]], German forensic pathologist and psychiatrist (d. [[1862]])
** [[Franz Anton von Gerstner]], Czech surveyor (d. [[1840]])
* [[April 20]]
** [[Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook]], British politician (d. [[1866]])
** [[Charles Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson]], French archaeologist (d. [[1862]])
** [[George Gleig (priest)|George Gleig]], Scottish soldier, military writer, and priest (d. [[1888]])
* [[April 21]]
** [[Thomas Earle (American politician)|Thomas Earle]], American journalist (d. [[1849]])
** [[Frederik Faber]], Danish zoologist (d. [[1828]])
** [[Richard Ford (English writer)|Richard Ford]], English writer (d. [[1858]])
** [[Frederick A. Kaye]], American politician (d. [[1866]])
** [[Horatio Needham]], American politician (d. [[1863]])
* [[April 23]] – [[William Baird (MP)|William Baird]], Scottish politician (d. [[1864]])
* [[April 24]]
** [[Karl Immermann]], German writer (d. [[1840]])
** [[Giorgio Pallavicino Trivulzio]], Italian politician (d. [[1878]])
* [[April 25]]
** [[Peter Greenall (politician)|Peter Greenall]], brewer (d. [[1845]])
** [[Giuseppe Giacinto Moris]], Italian botanist (d. [[1869]])
* [[April 26]] – [[Edouard Mary]], Belgian politician and lawyer (d. [[1853]])
* [[April 27]]
** [[Johann F. C. Hessel]], German scientist (d. [[1872]])
** [[Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony]], German princess (d. [[1865]])
* [[April 29]]
** [[Solomon Yeomans Chesley]], Canadian politician (d. [[1880]])
** [[Walter Henry Medhurst]], missionary in China (d. [[1857]])
* [[April 30]] – [[Adolphe Crémieux]], French-Jewish politician, abolitionist (d. [[1880]])