Editing 1782 (section)

=== May ===
* [[May 1]] – [[Yevgeny Golovin]], Russian general (d. [[1858]])
* [[May 4]]
** [[James Bathurst]], British Army officer (d. [[1850]])
** [[Friedrich Philipp Ritterich]], German ophthalmologist (d. [[1866]])
** [[John R. Williams]], American politician (d. [[1854]])
* [[May 5]] – [[Edward Richard Stewart]], British politician (d. [[1851]])
* [[May 6]]
** [[Charles-René Laitié]], French sculptor (d. [[1862]])
** [[Edward Charles Whinyates]], English army officer (d. [[1865]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Ivan Paskevich]], military leader of Ukrainian descent (d. [[1856]])
* [[May 9]]
** [[Virgil Horace Barber]], American Jesuit (d. [[1847]])
** [[Marcia Van Ness]], founded Washington Orphan Asylum in 1815 (d. [[1832]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Louis-René Villermé]], French economist (d. [[1863]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Lippmann Moses Büschenthal]], German poet (d. [[1818]])
* [[May 13]]
** [[Henry A. P. Muhlenberg]], American politician (d. [[1844]])
** [[Johan Gustaf Sandberg]], Swedish artist (d. [[1854]])
** [[Ferdinand de Bertier de Sauvigny]], French politician (d. [[1864]])
* [[May 14]]
** [[John McElroy (Jesuit)|John McElroy]], Jesuit Priest (d. [[1877]])
** [[Antoine-Marie Roederer]], French politician (d. [[1865]])
* [[May 16]] – [[John Sell Cotman]], British artist (d. [[1842]])
* [[May 18]]
** [[John Ferneley]], English painter (d. [[1860]])
** [[Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow]], Prussian lieutenant-general (d. [[1834]])
** [[Valerian Madatov]], Russian general (d. [[1829]])
** [[Gilbert C. Russell]], American military officer (d. [[1861]])
* [[May 19]]
** [[Rowland Stephenson (banker)|Rowland Stephenson]], British politician (d. [[1856]])
** [[Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov]], Russian prince and Field Marshal (d. [[1856]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Hirose Tansō]], Japanese poet and writer (d. [[1856]])
* [[May 23]]
** [[Christopher Crackenthorp Askew]], British Royal Navy officer, captain in 1822 (d. [[1848]])
** [[Charles Fothergill]], Canadian politician (d. [[1840]])
* [[May 26]]
** [[Medora Gordon Byron]], British Romantic novelist (d. [[1858]])
** [[Joseph Drechsler]], Czech conductor, music educator, composer and organist (d. [[1852]])
** [[Erasmo Seguín]], head postmaster of San Antonio, Texas (d. [[1857]])
** [[George Small (piano maker)|George Small]], Scottish piano manufacturer (d. [[1861]])
** [[Sir George Strickland, 7th Baronet]], British politician (d. [[1874]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Antoni Jan Ostrowski]], Polish general (d. [[1845]])
* [[May 28]]
** [[Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, 1st Baronet]], British surgeon (d. [[1857]])
** [[Johann Rombauer]], painter from Hungary (d. [[1849]])
** [[Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk]], painter from the Northern Netherlands, 1782–1810 (d. [[1810]])
* [[May 29]] – [[James Murray, 1st Baron Glenlyon]], British Army general (d. [[1837]])
* [[May 30]] – [[John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer]], British politician (d. [[1845]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Thomas Courtenay (British politician)|Thomas Courtenay]], British politician (d. [[1841]])