Editing 1779 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Stephen Decatur, by John Wesley Jarvis - KN-2779.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Stephen Decatur]]]]
[[File:Key-Francis-Scott-LOC.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Francis Scott Key]]]]

* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Stephen Decatur]], American naval officer (d. [[1820]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Peter Mark Roget]], British lexicographer (d. [[1869]])
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Nikolaus von Krufft]], Austrian composer and civil servant (d. [[1818]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Antoine-Henri Jomini]], French general (d. [[1869]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1848]])
* [[March 21]] &ndash; [[José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, Marquis of Torre Tagle]], Peruvian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Peru (d. 1825)<ref>{{Cite book|title=Bosquejo sobre la evolución política y jurídica de la época Republicana del Perú |first=Alfonso |last=Benavides Loredo |publisher=P. Acevedo |year=1918 |location=Lima |page=227 |language=es |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=trlGAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA227}}</ref>
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Thomas Moore]], Irish poet (d. [[1852]])
* [[June 20]] &ndash; [[Dorothy Ann Thrupp]], British psalmist, hymnwriter, translator (d. [[1847]])
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Giorgio Pullicino]], Maltese painter and architect (d. [[1851]])
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Francis Scott Key]], American lawyer, lyricist (d. [[1843]])
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Silliman]], American chemist, educator and abolitionist (d. [[1864]])
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Jöns Jacob Berzelius]], Swedish chemist (d. [[1848]])
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]], French painter (d. [[1867]])
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Mustafa IV]], [[List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire|sultan of the Ottoman Empire]] (d. [[1808]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Joseph Story]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1845]])
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger]], Danish poet (d. [[1850]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Madeleine Sophie Barat]], French Catholic saint, founder of the [[Society of the Sacred Heart]] (d. [[1865]])
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[George Washington Lafayette]]
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Giacomo Beltrami]], Italian explorer (d. [[1855]])