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=== October ===
* [[October 3]]
** [[Charles Jared Ingersoll]], American politician and writer (d. [[1862]])
** [[David Johnson (governor)|David Johnson]], Governor of South Carolina (d. [[1855]])
** [[Richard Peek]], English philanthropist (d. [[1867]])
* [[October 4]] – [[James Wadmore]], English art collector (d. [[1853]])
* [[October 6]]
** [[Isidro Barrada]], Spanish military personnel (d. [[1835]])
** [[James Gordon (Royal Navy officer)|James Gordon]], British Royal Navy officer (d. [[1869]])
* [[October 7]]
** [[John Duer]], American jurist (d. [[1852]])
** [[Charles Maclaren]], Scottish journalist and geologist (d. [[1866]])
** [[James Lucas Yeo]], British naval commander (d. [[1818]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Robert Lucas Chance]], British glass maker (d. [[1865]])
* [[October 9]]
** [[Lewis Cass]], American military officer, politician, statesman (d. [[1866]])
** [[Tilly Lynde]], American politician (d. [[1857]])
** [[William Holland Wilmer]], American episcopal priest (d. [[1827]])
* [[October 11]]
** [[Steen Steensen Blicher]], Danish writer (d. [[1848]])
** [[Christian Heinrich Bünger]], German anatomist and surgeon (d. [[1842]])
** [[Georg Andreas von Rosen]], Russian army general (d. [[1841]])
** [[Pierre-Antoine Tabeau]], Canadian missionary (d. [[1835]])
* [[October 12]]
** [[Henry Dodge]], American politician and general (d. [[1867]])
** [[Jared Groce]], American planter, slaveowner and settler (d. [[1836]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Joseph Nigg]], Austrian artist (d. [[1863]])
* [[October 14]] – [[James Gilmour (Miramichi lumber baron)|James Gilmour]], Canadian businessman (d. [[1858]])
* [[October 15]] – [[James Elmes]], English writer and architect (d. [[1862]])
* [[October 16]]
** [[Alois Pichl]], Austrian architect (d. [[1856]])
** [[Hamelin Trelawny]], British politician (d. [[1856]])
* [[October 18]]
** [[Joseph M. Street]], Iowa pioneer, trader and US Indian Agent (d. [[1840]])
** [[Karl Friedrich Eusebius Trahndorff]], German philosopher (d. [[1863]])
* [[October 19]] – [[J. T. Wedgwood]], British engraver (d. [[1856]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Christian Blom]], Norwegian composer (d. [[1861]])
* [[October 24]] – [[William Norton Shinn]], American politician (d. [[1871]])
* [[October 25]]
** [[Iosif Ivanovich Charlemagne]], Russian architect (d. [[1861]])
** [[Levi Lincoln Jr.]], Massachusetts Governor and Congressman (d. [[1868]])
** [[Sir William Verner, 1st Baronet]], British politician (d. [[1871]])
* [[October 26]]
** [[Carlo Tancredi Falletti di Barolo]], Italian politician and mayor (d. [[1838]])
** [[Charles Goodall (cricketer)|Charles Goodall]], English cricketer (d. [[1872]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Niccolò Paganini]], Italian violinist and composer (d. [[1840]])
* [[October 28]] – [[Henry Meigs]], American politician (d. [[1861]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Lorenzo Maria of Saint Francis Xavier]], Italian saint (d. [[1856]])