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=== December ===
* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[Alexander Leith (British Army officer)|Alexander Leith]], British Army officer (d. [[1859]])
* [[December 2]]
** [[François-André Baudin]], French naval officer (d. [[1842]])
** [[François-René Boussen]], Belgian priest (d. [[1848]])
* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Federico Palombini]], military general (d. [[1850]])
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[John Weyland]], British writer and politician; (d. [[1854]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff]], German mathematician (d. [[1835]])
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Morice]], French navy officer (d. [[1848]])
* [[December 11]] &ndash; [[David Bowen, Felinfoel]], Welsh Baptist minister from Felinfoel (d. [[1853]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[William Henry (chemist)|William Henry]], English chemist (d. [[1836]])
* [[December 13]]
** [[Eline Heger]], Danish actress (d. [[1842]])
** [[Nathan F. Dixon I]], American politician (d. [[1842]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Michel Ange Lancret]], Engineer with the French Corps of Bridges and Roads (d. [[1807]])
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Caroline Campbell, Duchess of Argyll]], British noble (d. [[1835]])
* [[December 17]]
** [[Andrew Jukes (surgeon)|Andrew Jukes]], British surgeon (d. [[1821]])
** [[Littleton Waller Tazewell]], American politician (d. [[1860]])
* [[December 20]]
** [[John Pasco]], English admiral (d. [[1853]])
** [[Charles Richard Vaughan]], British diplomat (d. [[1849]])
* [[December 21]]
** [[John Thomas Barber Beaumont]], British artist (d. [[1841]])
** [[James Ingram (academic)|James Ingram]], English academic (d. [[1850]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Ludwig von Vincke]], politician, writer and jurist (d. [[1844]])
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Oechsle]], German inventor (d. [[1852]])
* [[December 27]]
** [[Brenton Halliburton]], Canadian judge (d. [[1860]])
** [[Ephraim Hart (New York politician)|Ephraim Hart]], American politician (d. [[1839]])
** [[Johann Philipp Neumann]], Austrian physicist, librarian and poet (d. [[1849]])
* [[December 28]]
** [[Mary Birkett Card]], poet, abolitionist and feminist (d. [[1817]])
** [[Thomas Moore Musgrave]], English postmaster and translator (d. [[1854]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry]], British politician (d. [[1849]])
* [[December 31]]
** [[James Bunbury White]], American politician (d. [[1819]])<ref>{{cite journal|last=Wilcox|first=George W.|url=|title=Profile of an Irish Lady: Bridget Day Beatty|journal=Lower Cape Fear Historical Society, Inc. Bulletin|publication-place=Wilmington, North Carolina|date=May 1993|volume=XXXVIII|issue=3}}</ref>
* Unknown date – [[Sergey Glinka]], Russian author, brother of [[Fyodor Glinka]] (d. [[1847]])