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=== January ===
* [[January 1]] – [[John Bell (British Army officer)|John Bell]], British army officer (d. [[1876]])
* [[January 2]]
** [[Hugo von Bosch]], Bavarian general and politician (d. [[1865]])
** [[Hosea Hildreth]], educator and minister in Massachusetts and New Hampshire (d. [[1835]])
** [[El Pípila]], Mexican miner and freedom fighter (d. [[1863]])
** [[Thomas Starkie]], British lawyer (d. [[1849]])
* [[January 3]]
** [[Turner Saunders]], American preacher (d. [[1854]])
** [[Philipp Franz von Walther]], German ophthalmologist (d. [[1849]])
* [[January 5]] – [[Robert Morrison (missionary)|Robert Morrison]], British evangelist and first Protestant missionary in China (d. [[1834]])
* [[January 8]]
** [[William Mudford]], British journalist and writer (d. [[1848]])
** [[Tommaso Riario Sforza]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1857]])
* [[January 9]] – [[Benning M. Bean]], American politician (d. [[1866]])
* [[January 11]] – [[Jean Laforgue]], French scholar (d. [[1852]])
* [[January 12]] – [[Martin Flint]], American politician (d. [[1855]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Robert Aspland]], English Unitarian minister (d. [[1845]])
* [[January 14]]
** [[Carl Ferdinand Langhans]], German architect (d. [[1869]])
** [[Stephen Lushington (judge)|Stephen Lushington]], British judge and Member of Parliament (d. [[1873]])
** [[Thomas Sergeant]], American lawyer and politician (d. [[1860]])
** [[Peder Tonning]], Norwegian politician (d. [[1839]])
* [[January 15]]
** [[Elkanah Kelsey Dare]], American composer (d. [[1826]])
** [[Nikolaus Wolfgang Fischer]], German physician and chemist (d. [[1850]])
** [[Ōkubo Tadazane]], daimyo (d. [[1837]])
* [[January 18]]
** [[William Gosset (British Army officer, born 1782)|William Gosset]], British Member of Parliament (d. [[1848]])
** [[Daniel Webster]], 14th and 19th United States Secretary of State (d. [[1852]])
* [[January 19]]
** [[Michel Bibaud]], Canadian writer (d. [[1857]])
** [[John J. Chappell]], American politician (d. [[1871]])
** [[William Eden (MP)|William Eden]], British soldier and politician (d. [[1810]])
** [[William Harris, 2nd Baron Harris]], British Army general (d. [[1845]])
* [[January 20]]
** [[Archduke John of Austria]], Austrian soldier, imperial regent of the German Empire (d. [[1859]])
** [[William Nott]], British general (d. [[1845]])
* [[January 21]]
** [[Jan George Bertelman]], Dutch composer (d. [[1854]])
** [[Afanasy Grigoriev]], Russian architect (d. [[1868]])
** [[James Patrick Murray (British Army officer)|James Patrick Murray]], British politician (d. [[1834]])
* [[January 22]]
** [[Philip Hamilton]], son of American Founding Father, [[Alexander Hamilton]] (d. [[1801]])
** [[Franciszek Ksawery Lampi]], Austrian artist (d. [[1852]])
** [[John Mitford (Royal Navy officer)|John Mitford]], British naval officer and author (d. [[1831]])
* [[January 23]] – [[José Francisco Bermúdez]], Venezuelan revolutionary (d. [[1831]])
* [[January 24]] – [[Charles K. Williams]], American politician (d. [[1853]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Johann Michael Ackner]], Austrian archaeologist (d. [[1862]])
* [[January 26]]
** [[William George Keith Elphinstone]], British Army general (d. [[1842]])
** [[Cornelius P. Van Ness]], American politician (d. [[1852]])
* [[January 27]]
** [[John Lea (epidemiologist)|John Lea]], US epidemiologist (d. [[1862]])
** [[Titumir]], Bengali revolutionary (d. [[1831]])<ref name="titu">{{cite Banglapedia|author=Khan, Muazzam Hussain|article=Titu Mir}}</ref>
* [[January 29]]
** [[Daniel Auber]], French composer (d. [[1871]])
** [[Daniel Parker (general)|Daniel Parker]], Adjutant general and inspector general of the US Army (d. [[1846]])
** [[Franciszek Ścigalski]], Polish composer and violinist (d. [[1846]])
* [[January 30]]
** [[Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret]], French painter (d. [[1863]])
** [[James Caulfeild (soldier)|James Caulfeild]], British politician (d. [[1852]])
** [[Wincenty Krasiński]], nobleman, political activist and military leader (d. [[1858]])
** [[Ann Taylor (poet)|Ann Taylor]], British poet and literary critic (d. [[1866]])