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=== December ===
* [[December 2]]
** [[Ödön Beöthy]], Hungarian nobleman, politician (d. [[1854]])
** [[Edward Dunsterville]], British naval officer and hydrographer (d. [[1873]])
** [[William Webb Follett]], English lawyer and politician (d. [[1845]])
** [[David Spangler (congressman)|David Spangler]], American politician (d. [[1856]])
* [[December 3]]
** [[Francis Kenrick]], Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia (d. [[1863]])
** [[Henriette Widerberg]], Swedish opera soprano (d. [[1872]])
* [[December 5]]
** [[William Arthur (clergyman)|William Arthur]], father of U.S. president Chester A. Arthur (d. [[1875]])
** [[Thomas Flower Ellis]], British law reporter (d. [[1861]])
** [[George Mortimer Tibbits]], American landowner (d. [[1878]])
* [[December 6]]
** [[Joseph W. Jackson]], American politician from Georgia state (d. [[1854]])
** [[Henry Seymour (New Zealand politician)|Henry Seymour]], New Zealand politician (d. [[1883]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Michel Charles Durieu de Maisonneuve]], French botanist (d. [[1878]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Ferdinand Wolf]], Romance philologist from Austria (d. [[1866]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Emilie Zumsteeg]], German composer, music teacher, choir conductor, singer, pianist (d. [[1857]])
* [[December 10]] – [[John Burnet Biddulph]], South African explorer (d. [[1837]])
* [[December 11]]
** [[Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe]], British earl (d. [[1870]])
** [[Nikolai Lukash]], Imperial Russian military officer and politician (d. [[1868]])
** [[Thomas Alexander Souter]], British army officer (d. [[1848]])
* [[December 12]] – [[John Stephenson (physician)|John Stephenson]], canadian physician (d. [[1842]])
* [[December 13]] – [[George Storrs]], American minister (d. [[1879]])
* [[December 14]]
** [[Lilburn Boggs]], American politician (d. [[1860]])
** [[Auguste Lorieux]], French writer (d. [[1842]])
* [[December 15]]
** [[Jacob Letterstedt]], Swedish businessman (d. [[1862]])
** [[Hiram Runnels]], U.S. politician (d. [[1857]])
* [[December 17]]
** [[Thomas Chandler Haliburton]], Canadian-British politician, judge and author (d. [[1865]])
** [[Christina Robertson]], Scottish artist, editor (d. [[1854]])
* [[December 18]]
** [[Peter Daniel Bruun]], Danish politician and lawyer (d. [[1864]])
** [[James Gallatin]], American banker (d. [[1876]])
* [[December 19]]
** [[Joan Aulí]], Spanish composer and organist (d. [[1870]])
** [[Manuel Bretón de los Herreros]], Spanish dramatist, poet and journalist (d. [[1873]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Simon Meister]], German painter (d. [[1844]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Tomasz Zan]], Polish poet (d. [[1855]])
* [[December 22]]
** [[George McClellan (physician)|George McClellan]], American surgeon (d. [[1847]])
** [[Jared W. Williams]], American politician (d. [[1864]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Tytus Działyński]], Polish politician (d. [[1861]])
* [[December 25]]
** [[Fernán Caballero]], Spanish novelist (d. [[1877]])
** [[Hugh Lee Pattinson]], English industrial chemist (d. [[1858]])
** [[Juan Esteban Pedernera]], Argentine politician and military officer (d. [[1886]])
** [[Frederick Augustus Ross]], American minister (d. [[1883]])
* [[December 27]]
** [[Ghalib|Mirza Ghalib]], Persian poet of [[Urdu]] (d. [[1869]])
** [[Franciszek Pfanhauser]], Polish painter (d. [[1865]])
** [[Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz]], Prussian field marshal (d. [[1877]])
* [[December 29]]
** [[William B. Calhoun]], American politician (d. [[1865]])
** [[Johann Christian Poggendorff]], German physicist (d. [[1877]])
** [[Ferdinand von Wrangel]], Baltic German explorer and Russian admiral (d. [[1870]])
* [[December 30]] – [[Miklós Wesselényi]], Hungarian politician (d. [[1850]])

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* [[Du Bois Agett]], early settler of Western Australia (d. [[1866]])
* [[Edwin Beard Budding]], English engineer and inventor of the [[lawnmower]] (d. [[1846]])
* [[Mirza Shafi Vazeh]], Azeri poet (d. [[1852]])