Editing 1783 (section)

== Births ==
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Dotzauer]], German cellist, composer (d. [[1860]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Stendhal]], French writer (d. [[1842]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont]], French general, governor-general of [[French Algeria]] (d. [[1837]])
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Stephen Cassin]], United States Navy officer (d. [[1857]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Hannah Van Buren]], née Hoes, American wife of Martin Van Buren (d. [[1819]])
[[File:Portrait of Washington Irving attr. to Charles Robert Leslie.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Washington Irving]]]]
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Washington Irving]], American author (d. [[1859]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Washington Irving – American author|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Washington-Irving|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=3 January 2017}}</ref>
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Reginald Heber]], English priest (d. 1821)<ref> {{cite book |last=Montefiore |first=Arthur |url=https://archive.org/stream/reginaldheberbis00bric#page/n5/mode/2up |title=Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta |publisher=Fleming H. Revell Company |year=1902 |location=New York, New York; Chicago, Illinois and Toronto, Canada |pages=9&ndash;10 |oclc=155604573}}; re-printed 2015 by Facsimile Publisher and distributed by Gyan Books, New Delhi, India. </ref>
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Vicente Rocafuerte]], Ecuadorian politician, 2nd President of Ecuador (d. [[1847]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[José de la Riva Agüero]], Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (d. [[1858]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Philip P. Barbour]], American politician, [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1841]])
[[File:John Crawfurd.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[John Crawfurd]]]]
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[John Crawfurd]], Scottish physician, colonial administrator, diplomat and author. Last British Resident of Singapore (d. [[1868]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Benedetto Pistrucci]], Italian engraver and medalist (d. [[1855]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Sertürner]], German pharmacist who discovered morphine in [[1804]] (d. [[1841]]) 
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Theodosia Burr Alston|Theodosia Burr]], [[First Lady]] of [[South Carolina]] during [[War of 1812]], daughter of [[Aaron Burr]] (d. [[1813]]) 
[[File:Portrait of Simón Bolívar by Arturo Michelena.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Simón Bolívar]]]]
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[Simón Bolívar]], Venezuelan patriot, revolutionary leader and statesman (d. [[1830]])
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck]], German army officer and writer (d. [[1860]])
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom]], member of the British Royal Family (d. [[1810]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Federigo Zuccari]], astronomer, director of the Astronomical Observatory of Naples (d. [[1817]])
* [[September 17]] 
** [[Samuel Prout]], English painter (d. [[1852]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artuk.org/discover/artists/prout-samuel-17831852|title=Samuel Prout (1783–1852)|website=artuk.org|access-date=3 January 2017}}</ref>
** [[Nadezhda Durova]], first female Russian army officer (d. [[1866]])
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner]], German chemist (d. [[1857]])
* Date unknown:
**The [[Two-Headed Boy of Bengal]], sufferer from the rare condition [[Craniopagus parasiticus]] (d. [[1787]])
** [[Mary Anne Whitby]], English scientist (d. [[1850]])