Editing 1789 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Brigadier General René Edward De Russy.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[René Edward De Russy]]]]
[[File:Georg Simon Ohm3.jpg|110px|thumb|right|[[Georg Ohm]]]]
[[File:Catherine Sedgwick (crop).png|thumb|right|110px|[[Catharine Sedgwick]]]]
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Carl Gustav Carus]], German physiologist (d. [[1869]])
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Lundy]], American abolitionist (d. [[1839]])
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Ettore Perrone di San Martino]], prime minister of Sardinia (d. [[1849]])
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[William Machin Stairs]], Canadian businessman, statesman (d. [[1865]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Martin Chester Deming]], American businessman and politician (d. [[1851]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wiley |first=Edgar J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TapBAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22martin+chester+deming%22&pg=PA22 |title=Catalogue of Officers and Students of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, 1800-1915 |date=1917 |publisher=[[Middlebury College]] |location=Middlebury |pages=22–23 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[René Edward De Russy]], Brigadier General of the [[United States Army]], Superintendent of the [[United States Military Academy]] and military engineer (d. [[1865]])
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Georg Ohm]], German physicist (d. [[1854]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Diego Noboa]], 4th President of Ecuador (d. [[1870]])
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Manuel Gómez Pedraza]], 6th [[President of Mexico]] (d. [[1851]])
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[George Fife Angas]], English coachbuilder, businessman, and politician; founder of [[South Australia]] (d. [[1879]])
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Cathinka Buchwieser]], German operatic singer and actress
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Queen Sunwon]], Korean regent (d. [[1857]])  
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[Horace Vernet]], French painter (d. [[1863]])
* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[John Martin (painter)|John Martin]], English painter (d. [[1854]])
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[Vasil Aprilov]], Bulgarian educator, merchant and writer (d. [[1847]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Raymond Detrez |title=The A to Z of Bulgaria |date=2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810872028 |page=17}}</ref>
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Friedrich List]], German journalist (d. [[1846]])
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Augustin-Louis Cauchy]], French mathematician (d. [[1857]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Stéphanie de Beauharnais]], Grand Duchess of Baden (d. [[1860]])
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Hannah Flagg Gould]], American poet (d. [[1865]])
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré]], French botanist (d. [[1854]])
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[James Fenimore Cooper]], American writer (d. [[1851]])
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Richard Bright (physician)|Richard Bright]], English physician, "Father of Nephrology" (d. [[1858]])
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[William Swainson]], English naturalist, artist (d. [[1855]])
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[William Bland]], Australian politician (d. [[1868]])
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Maria Szymanowska]], Polish composer (d. [[1831]])
* [[December 15]]
** [[Edward B. Dudley]], North Carolina governor (d. [[1855]])
** [[Carlos Soublette]], two-time President of Venezuela (d. [[1870]])
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Levi Woodbury]], American politician, [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1851]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Jesser Reid]], English social reformer, founder of [[Bedford College (London)|Bedford College]] (d. [[1866]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Catharine Sedgwick]], American writer (d. [[1867]])