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== Births ==
[[File:Pauline01.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg]]]]
[[File:Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]]]]
[[File:Napoleon - 2.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Napoleon]]]]
[[File:Stieler, Joseph Karl - Alexander von Humboldt - 1843.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Alexander von Humboldt]]]]
* [[January 1]]
** [[Marie Lachapelle]], French [[obstetrician]] (d. [[1821]])
** [[Jane Marcet]], British science writer (d. [[1858]])
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Nannette Streicher]], German piano maker, composer, music educator and writer (d. [[1833]])
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Michel Ney]], French marshal (d. [[1815]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg]]; German regent and social reformer (d. [[1820]]) 
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers]], French general (d. [[1796]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[DeWitt Clinton]], American politician and naturalist, 6th [[Governor of New York]] (d. [[1828]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Ali of Egypt]], Egyptian ruler (d. [[1849]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Samuel Richards (ironmaster)|Samuel Richards]], American ironmaster (d. [[1842]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Joseph Williamson (philanthropist)|Joseph Williamson]], English philanthropist, builder of the [[Williamson Tunnels]] (d. [[1840]])
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[William Smith (geologist)|William Smith]], English geologist, cartographer (d. [[1839]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Jean-de-Dieu Soult]], French marshal (d. [[1851]])
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Christian Günther von Bernstorff]], Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (d. [[1835]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Jakob Heinrich Laspeyres]], German [[lepidopterist]] (d. [[1809]])
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Jean Lannes]], French marshal (d. [[1809]])
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Thomas Lawrence]], English painter (d. [[1830]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Barthélemy Catherine Joubert]], French general (d. [[1799]]) 
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Marc Isambard Brunel]], French-British engineer (d. [[1849]])
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]], British general, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1852]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] (d. [[1824]])
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Marianne Kirchgessner]], German musician (d. [[1808]]) 
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh]], British statesman, diplomat, and soldier (suicide [[1822]])
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[Hudson Lowe]], Irish-born soldier and future jailer of Napoleon on [[Saint Helena]] (d. [[1831]])
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Napoleon|Napoleon Bonaparte]], French Emperor (d. [[1821]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Napoleon I {{!}} Biography, Achievements, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=11 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Georges Cuvier]], French naturalist and zoologist; known as the ''Father of Paleontology'' (d. [[1832]])
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[David Hosack]] American physician and botanist, a Hamilton family doctor (d. [[1835]])
* [[September 14]] 
** [[Alexander von Humboldt]], German explorer, scientist (d. [[1859]]) 
** [[Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal]], German jurist (d. [[1843]])
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Isaac Brock]], British general, administrator (d. [[1812]])
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[James Scarlett Abinger]], English judge (d. [[1844]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Martin Archer Shee]], Irish painter (d. [[1850]])
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Ernst Moritz Arndt]], German writer, poet (d. [[1860]])
* ''date unknown'' 
** [[James Dadford]], English canal engineer
** [[John Bellingham]], assassin of British Prime Minister [[Spencer Perceval]] (d. [[1812]])
** [[Howqua]], Chinese merchant (d. [[1843]])
* ''probable''
** [[John Henry Colclough]], Irish revolutionary (d. 1798)