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== Births ==
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Achim von Arnim]], German novelist and poet (d. [[1831]])<ref>{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Arnim, Ludwig Joachim von|year=1905}}</ref>
* [[January 30]] &ndash; [[Adelbert von Chamisso]], German poet and scientist (d. [[1838]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Eva R. Trautmann|author2=Adelbert von Chamisso|title=The Alaska diary of Adelbert von Chamisso, naturalist on the Kotzebue voyage, 1815-1818|publisher=Cook Inlet Historical Society|year=1986|page=1}}</ref>
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[René Laennec]], French physician and inventor (d. [[1826]])
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Javiera Carrera]], Chilean independence campaigner (d. [[1862]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Rebecca Gratz]], American educator, philanthropist (d. [[1869]])
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Karl Friedrich Schinkel]], German architect, painter (d. [[1841]])
[[File:Lord Swaminarayan writing the Shikshapatri.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Swaminarayan]]]]
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Swaminarayan]], Indian Hindu reformer and deity (d. [[1830]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Henri Cassini]], French botanist and naturalist (d. [[1832]]) 
[[File:GeorgeStephenson.PNG|thumb|110px|[[George Stephenson]]]]
* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[George Stephenson]], English engineer, designer of railway locomotives [[Locomotion No. 1|''Locomotion'' No. 1]], ''[[Stephenson's Rocket|Rocket]]'' (d. [[1848]])
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Siméon Denis Poisson]], French mathematician, physicist (d. [[1840]])
* [[July 6]] 
** [[Stamford Raffles]], English founder of Singapore (d. [[1826]])
** [[John D. Sloat]], American naval officer (d. [[1867]])
* [[July 27]] &ndash; [[Mauro Giuliani]], Italian composer (d. [[1829]])
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Eugène de Beauharnais]], French nobleman, son of Napoleon's wife [[Joséphine de Beauharnais|Joséphine]] (d. [[1824]])
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Anton Diabelli]], Austrian music publisher, editor and composer (d. [[1858]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Harnsberger | first = Lindsey | title = Essential dictionary of music: definitions, composers, theory, instrument & vocal ranges | publisher = Alfred Pub. Co | location = Los Angeles | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780882847283 | page=181}}</ref>
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Bernard Bolzano]], Czech philosopher and mathematician (d. [[1848]])
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France]] (d. [[1789]])
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Joseph Karl Stieler]], German painter (d. [[1858]]) 
* [[November 6]] 
** [[Lucy Aikin]], English writer (d. [[1864]])
** [[Maha Bandula]], Commander-in-chief of the Burmese military forces (d. [[1825]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Karl Friedrich Eichhorn]], German jurist (d. [[1854]])
* [[November 29]] &ndash; [[Andrés Bello]], Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, teacher, philosopher, sociologist (d. [[1865]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Leonard |first1=Irving A. |title=Andrés Bello (1781-1865), National Hero |journal=The Hispanic American Historical Review |date=1954 |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=502–505 |doi=10.2307/2509082 |issn=0018-2168|jstor=2509082 }}</ref>  
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Alexander Berry]], Scottish adventurer, Australian pioneer (d. [[1873]]) 
* [[December 11]] &ndash; Sir [[David Brewster]], Scottish physicist (d. [[1868]])

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* [[Sanité Bélair]], Haitian national heroine (d. [[1802]])
* [[Haji Shariatullah]], Bengali Islamic scholar (d. [[1840]])<ref name="JPHS">{{cite journal | last = Khan | first = Moin-Ud-Din | title = Haji Shari'at-Allah | journal = Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society | volume = 11 | number =  2 | page = 106 | date = 1 April 1963 |language=en | id={{ProQuest|1301938794}} }}</ref>
* [[William Williams of Wern]], Welsh minister (d. [[1840]])