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=== August ===
* [[August 1]]
** [[Johann Casimir Benicken]], German jurist and judge (d. [[1838]])
** [[Eugène de Mazenod]], French bishop and saint (d. [[1861]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Johannes van Hooydonk]], Dutch Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop (d. [[1868]])
* [[August 4]] – [[John Kerr (Virginia politician)|John Kerr]], member of the US House of Representatives (d. [[1842]])
* [[August 6]] – [[William Spencer (judge)|William Spencer]], American judge and politician (d. [[1871]])
* [[August 10]]
** [[Vicente Guerrero]], 2nd [[President of Mexico]] (d. [[1831]])
** [[Matsudaira Muneakira]], Japanese daimyo (d. [[1840]])
** [[Charles James Napier]], Governor of Sindh, Commander-in-Chief in British India (d. [[1853]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Ole Johansen Winstrup]], Danish engineer and inventor (d. [[1867]])
* [[August 13]] – [[Conrad Ten Eyck]], American politician (d. [[1847]])
* [[August 15]]
** [[Carlo Brioschi (astronomer)|Carlo Brioschi]], Italian astronomer (d. [[1833]])
** [[James Smith of Jordanhill]], Scottish merchant, geologist and biblical critic (d. [[1867]])
** [[Charles Lowell (minister)|Charles Lowell]], United States Unitarian minister (d. [[1861]])
** [[Henri de Merode]], member of the Belgian Senate and writer (d. [[1847]])
** [[Faustin Soulouque]], President and emperor of Haiti (d. [[1867]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Elderkin Potter]], American politician and lawyer (d. [[1845]])
* [[August 17]]
** [[Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri]], French stage designer (d. [[1868]])
** [[Pavel Martynov]], Russian Lieutenant General (d. [[1838]])
* [[August 18]]
** [[Jean-Louis Boisselot]], French composer and piano manufacturer (d. [[1847]])
** [[Marcellin Marbot]], French general (d. [[1854]])
* [[August 20]]
** [[Nicolas-Philibert Adelon]], French physician (d. [[1862]])
** [[Charles Fraser (artist)|Charles Fraser]], American painter (d. [[1860]])
** [[Juliana de Almeida e Oyenhausen]], Russian noble (d. [[1864]])
* [[August 23]] – [[David Hudson (New York politician)|David Hudson]], American politician (d. [[1860]])
* [[August 25]]
** [[Charles Comte]], French lawyer, journalist and political writer (d. [[1837]])
** [[Joseph Heinrich Gügler]], Swiss theologian (d. [[1827]])
** [[Prince Carl Gustav, Duke of Småland]], Swedish prince (d. [[1783]])
** [[Sylvester Pattie]], American frontiersman (d. [[1828]])
* [[August 28]]
** [[Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout]], French politician (d. [[1858]])
** [[John Wray (civil servant)|John Wray]], barrister and the first Receiver of the London Metropolitan Police (d. [[1869]])
* [[August 29]]
** [[John Bowman (New York politician)|John Bowman]], American lawyer, banker and politician from New York (d. [[1853]])
** [[Louis Antoine François de Marchangy]], French advocate general, poet and politician (d. [[1826]])
** [[John Augustine Smith]], President of the College of William & Mary (d. [[1865]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Christian of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken (1782–1859)|Christian of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken]], Bavarian general (d. [[1859]])
* [[August 31]]
** [[Joseph H. Crane]], American politician (d. [[1851]])
** [[Edward Russell (Maine politician)|Edward Russell]], American politician (d. [[1835]])