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== Births ==
[[File:Carl von Clausewitz.PNG|thumb|right|110px|[[Carl von Clausewitz]]]]
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Pierre Jean Robiquet]], French chemist (d. [[1840]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Henry Baldwin (judge)|Henry Baldwin]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1844]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hannan |first1=Caryn |title=Connecticut Biographical Dictionary |date=1 January 2008 |publisher=State History Publications |isbn=978-1-878592-59-0 |pages=59–61 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pd_ETIlgTxgC&pg=PA59 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[David Porter (naval officer)|David Porter]], American naval officer (d. [[1843]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Mihail G. Boiagi]], Aromanian grammarian and professor (d. uncertain)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rri.ro/ro_ar/mihail_g_boiagi_03021780_1828-2654043|title=Mihail G. Boiagi (03.02.1780 - 1828)|first=Tașcu|last=Lala|publisher=[[Radio Romania International]]|date=2 February 2022|language=rup|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329155306/https://www.rri.ro/ro_ar/mihail_g_boiagi_03021780_1828-2654043|archive-date=29 March 2024|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Richard McCarty (U.S. politician)|Richard McCarty]], American politician (d. [[1844]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[John Sumner (bishop)|John Sumner]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (d. [[1862]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Joseph Ritner]], American politician (d. [[1869]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Jørgen Jørgensen]], Danish adventurer (d. [[1841]])
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[William Ellery Channing]], influential American Unitarian theologian and minister (d. [[1842]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert]], German naturalist (d. [[1860]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Charles Nodier]], French author (d. [[1844]])
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[John McKinley]], American politician, [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1852]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Fry]], British humanitarian (d. [[1845]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Henri Braconnot]], French chemist, pharmacist (d. [[1855]])
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Carl von Clausewitz]], Prussian military strategist (d. [[1831]])
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Sofia Hjärne]], Finnish baroness, writer (d. [[1860]]) 
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[François Carlo Antommarchi]], French physician (d. [[1838]])
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Emilie Petersen]], Swedish philanthropist (d. [[1859]])
* [[July 27]] &ndash; [[Anastasio Bustamante]], 4th [[President of Mexico]] (d. [[1853]])
* [[August 29]]
**[[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]], French painter (d. [[1867]])
**[[Richard Rush]], [[United States Attorney General]] under [[James Madison]], [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]] under President [[John Quincy Adams]] (d. [[1859]])
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Pauline Bonaparte]], Italian noblewoman (d. [[1825]])
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Ernst Anschütz]], German teacher, organist, poet, and composer (d. [[1861]])
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Ranjit Singh]], Maharaja of The Punjab ([[Sikh Empire]]), (d. [[1839]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sikhinstitute.org/ranjitsingh/sherepunjab.html|publisher=Institute of Sikh Studies|location=Chandigarh|title=Shere-e-Punjab Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780-1839 AD) (A brief account)|access-date=2012-10-10}}</ref>
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner]], German chemist (d. [[1849]])
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Mary Somerville|Mary Fairfax Somerville]], British mathematician (d. [[1872]])

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* [[James Justinian Morier]], British diplomat and novelist (d. [[1849]])
* [[Manuela Medina]], Mexican national heroine (d. [[1822]])
* [[Elizabeth Philpot]], British paleontologist  (d. [[1857]])
* [[Jahonotin Uvaysiy]], Uzbek Sufi poet (d. [[1845]])