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=== December ===
* [[December 2]] – [[Gerard Thomas Noel]], British cleric (d. [[1851]])
* [[December 3]]
** [[John E. Coffee]], American politician (d. [[1836]])
** [[Henry William Pickersgill]], British artist (d. [[1875]])
* [[December 5]]
** [[Martin Van Buren]], 8th president of the United States (d. [[1862]])
** [[Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet]], British politician (d. [[1849]])
* [[December 7]]
** [[James Earickson]], American politician (d. [[1844]])
** [[Nicolaus Michael Oppel]], German naturalist (d. [[1820]])
** [[Joseph Trumbull (governor)|Joseph Trumbull]], American politician and lawyer (d. [[1861]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Waleria Tarnowska]], Polish painter and art collector (d. [[1849]])
* [[December 10]]
** [[Thomas William Brotherton]], British general (d. [[1868]])
** [[Charles Nicolas Fabvier]], French military personnel, politician and diplomat (d. [[1855]])
** [[Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl]], German philosopher, educationist, musicologist and musician (d. [[1849]])
* [[December 11]]
** [[George Barnes (priest)|George Barnes]], English archdeacon (d. [[1847]])
** [[Johann Friedrich Müller]], German copperplate engraver (d. [[1816]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Marie-Victoire Baudry]], Canadian superior general (d. [[1846]])
* [[December 13]] – [[John Clitherow]], British Army general (d. [[1852]])
* [[December 16]]
** [[Hans Jakob Oeri]], Swiss painter (d. [[1868]])
** [[Louis-Barthélémy Pradher]], French composer, pianist and music educator (d. [[1843]])
** [[Diego Bautista Urbaneja]], Venezuelan politician (d. [[1856]])
* [[December 17]] – [[James Fullarton]], Scottish soldier who fought in the Kandyan Wars (d. [[1834]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Julius Vincenz von Krombholz]], Czech botanist, surgeon, doctor and mycologist (d. [[1843]])
* [[December 21]]
** [[Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier]], French composer (d. [[1838]])
** [[Randolph Isham Routh]], British commissariat officer (d. [[1858]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Jean Bélanger]], Canadian politician (d. [[1827]])
* [[December 23]]
** [[William Armstrong (Virginia politician)|William Armstrong]], American lawyer, civil servant, politician, businessperson (d. [[1865]])<ref name="Munske 2004 46">{{cite book |editor-last1 = Munske |editor-first1 = Roberta R. |editor-last2 = Kerns |editor-first2 = Wilmer L. |year = 2004 |title = Hampshire County, West Virginia, 1754–2004 |publisher = The Hampshire County 250th Anniversary Committee |location = [[Romney, West Virginia]] |isbn = 978-0-9715738-2-6 |oclc = 55983178|page=46}}</ref><ref name="Congress 1">{{cite web | url = https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=A000284 | title = Armstrong, William (1782–1865) | work = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher = [[United States Congress Joint Committee on Printing]] and [[United States Government Publishing Office]] | access-date = October 14, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200805112719/https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=A000284 | archive-date = August 5, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Leps 1865 3">{{cite book |title = A Funeral Discourse, by the Rev. Jas. H. Leps, at Romney, West Va. on the Occasion of the Death of the Hon. William Armstrong, Who Died at New Creek Station, West Va. on the 10th May, 1865. | last = Leps | first = James H. |year = 1865  |publisher = John W. Woods, Printer |location = Baltimore |oclc = 652541197|page=3}}</ref>
** [[Johann Anton Weinmann]], German botanist (d. [[1858]])
* [[December 24]]
** [[Therese Brunetti]], Austrian actress (d. [[1864]])
** [[Charles Hubert Millevoye]], poet from France (d. [[1816]])
* [[December 25]]
** [[Victory Birdseye]], American politician (d. [[1853]])
** [[Nathaniel Fish Moore]], American university administrator (d. [[1872]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Philaret Drozdov]], Russian bishop (d. [[1867]])
* [[December 27]]
** [[Samuel Hood (priest)|Samuel Hood]], Anglican Dean of Argyll and The Isles (d. [[1872]])
** [[Henry Vail]], American politician (d. [[1853]])
* [[December 28]]
** [[Joseph Arnold]], English naval surgeon and naturalist (d. [[1818]])
** [[Matthias Joseph de Noël]], German writer and art collector (d. [[1849]])
** [[Cajetan von Textor]], German physician (d. [[1860]])
* [[December 29]]
** [[François-Joseph Grille]], French librarian (d. [[1853]])
** [[William Lloyd (mountaineer)|William Lloyd]], British army officer (d. [[1857]])
** [[Benjamin Woodworth]], American politician (d. [[1874]])
* [[December 30]]
** [[John Freeman Milward Dovaston]], British poet and naturalist (d. [[1854]])
** [[Jonas Anton Hielm]], Norwegian politician (d. [[1848]])
* [[December 31]]
** [[Konstantin Bulgakov]], Russian diplomat and postal director (d. [[1835]])
** [[Jean-Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup]], French naturalist (d. [[1861]])