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== Births ==
* [[January 22]] – [[Lord Byron|George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron]], English poet (d. [[1824]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Robert Peel]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1850]])
* [[February 10]] – [[Johann Peter Pixis]], German pianist, composer (d. [[1874]])
* [[February 12]] – [[Carl Reichenbach]], German chemist (d. [[1869]])
[[File:Schopenhauer.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Arthur Schopenhauer]]]]
* [[February 22]] – [[Arthur Schopenhauer]], German philosopher (d. [[1860]])
[[File:Joseph Eichendorff.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Joseph Eichendorff]]]]
* [[March 10]] – [[Joseph von Eichendorff]], German poet (d. [[1857]])
* [[April 2]] 
** [[Francisco Balagtas]], Filipino poet (d. [[1862]])
** [[Wilhelmine Reichard]], first German woman balloonist (d. [[1848]])
* [[April 14]] – [[David G. Burnet]], [[List of Presidents of the Republic of Texas|President of the Republic of Texas]] (d. [[1870]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Charlotte Murchison]], Scottish geologist (d. [[1869]])
[[File:Augustin Fresnel.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Augustin-Jean Fresnel]]]]
* [[May 10]] – [[Augustin-Jean Fresnel]], French engineer, physicist and inventor (d. [[1827]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Friedrich Rückert]], German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages (d. [[1866]])
* [[May 22]] – [[William Grant Broughton]], first Anglican bishop in Australia (d. [[1853]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Charles A. Wickliffe]], American politician, 14th [[Governor of Kentucky]] (d. [[1869]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Princess Augusta of Bavaria]], Duchess of Leuchtenberg (d. [[1851]])
* [[July 30]] – [[Kisamor]], Swedish natural healer (d. [[1842]]) 
* [[August 2]] – [[Leopold Gmelin]], German chemist (d. [[1853]]) 
* [[August 6]] – [[Felix Slade]], English lawyer, philanthropist and art collector (d. [[1868]]) 
* [[August 7]] – [[Francis R. Shunk]], American politician (d. [[1848]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Luigi Ciacchi]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1865]])
* [[September 12]] – [[Alexander Campbell (clergyman)|Alexander Campbell]], Irish-born founder of the Disciples of Christ (d. [[1866]])
* [[September 15]] – [[Gerard C. Brandon]], American politician (d. [[1850]])
* [[September 12]] – [[Charlotte von Siebold]], German gynecologist (d. [[1859]])
* [[September 21]]
**[[Geert Adriaans Boomgaard]], Dutch citizen, first validated [[supercentenarian]] (d. [[1899]])
**[[Margaret Taylor]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1852]])
* [[September 22]] 
** [[Theodore Edward Hook]], English author (d. [[1841]])
** [[Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis]], Arab-French memoir writer and servant to Napoleon I (d. [[1856]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Jakob Walter]], German [[stonemason]], soldier (d. [[1864]])
* [[October 9]] – [[József Kossics]], Hungarian-Slovene Catholic priest, writer, ethnologist (d. [[1867]])
* [[October 11]] – [[Simon Sechter]], Austrian music teacher (d. [[1867]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Sarah Josepha Hale]], American author (d. [[1879]])
* [[October 31]] – [[David R. Porter]], American politician (d. [[1867]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Mihály Bertalanits]], [[Hungarian Slovenes|Hungarian Slovene]] ([[Prekmurje Slovenes|Prekmurje Slovene]]) poet, teacher (d. [[1853]])
* ''Date unknown''
** [[Facundo Quiroga]], Argentine federationalist (d. [[1835]])
** [[Ana Joaquina dos Santos e Silva]], African businesswoman (d. [[1859]])