Editing 1796 (section)

=== January ===
* [[January 1]]
** [[Emily Baldwin]], First Lady of Connecticut (d. [[1863]])
** [[William Gross (murderer)|William Gross]], criminal (d. [[1823]])
** [[Felix Horetzky]], Polish composer and guitarist (d. [[1870]])
** [[Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier]], German philologist (d. [[1855]])
* [[January 3]]
** [[Milton Alexander]], American general (d. [[1856]])
** [[Henry Perceval, 5th Earl of Egmont]], peer (d. [[1841]])
** [[Johann Baptist Streicher]], Austrian piano maker (d. [[1871]])
* [[January 4]] – [[Henry George Bohn]], British publisher (d. [[1884]])
* [[January 5]]
** [[James Scarth Combe]], British surgeon (d. [[1883]])
** [[Jacques-Joseph Haus]], lawyer (d. [[1881]])
** [[Joseph Salvador (scholar)|Joseph Salvador]], French scholar (d. [[1873]])
** [[Julia Rush Cutler Ward]], American poet (d. [[1824]])
* [[January 7]]
** [[Peter Nead]], German Baptist Brethren theologian (d. [[1877]])
** [[Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796–1817)|Princess Charlotte of Wales]], daughter and only child of future [[King George IV]] (d. [[1817]])
* [[January 8]]
** [[Eliza Constantia Campbell]], Welsh author (d. [[1864]])
** [[Carl Friedrich Alexander Hartmann]], German metallurgist (d. [[1863]])
* [[January 9]] – [[Campbell Riddell]], Australian public servant (d. [[1858]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Leonard Dupont]], French naturalist (d. [[1828]])
* [[January 12]] – [[Paul Briquet]], French physician (d. [[1881]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Charles Shore, 2nd Baron Teignmouth]], member of the United Kingdom Parliament (d. [[1885]])
* [[January 15]]
** [[Pavel Liprandi]], Russian military officer (d. [[1864]])
** [[William Wagner (philanthropist)|William Wagner]], American philanthropist (d. [[1885]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Robert Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington]], English army officer and politician (d. [[1847]])
* [[January 17]]
** John Baker, namesake of the towns of Baker Lake and Baker Brook, New Brunswick, Canada (d. [[1868]])
** [[Thaddeus Fairbanks]], American inventor (d. [[1886]])
** [[William Washington Gordon]], American politician (d. [[1842]])
** [[Alexander McLeod]], Canadian sheriff (d. [[1871]])
* [[January 18]]
** [[Charles de Brouckère]], Belgian politician (d. [[1860]])
** [[John Storer]], merchant and philanthropist from Sanford (d. [[1867]])
** [[John B. Terry]], American businessman, soldier, and territorial legislator (d. [[1874]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Gaspare Grasselini]], Catholic cardinal (d. [[1875]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Jacques-Marie-Adrien-Césaire Mathieu]], French cardinal and author (d. [[1875]])
* [[January 21]]
** [[Francisco Ferreira Drummond]], Historian, paleographer, musician, politician (d. [[1858]])
** [[Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel]], German princess and painter (d. [[1880]])
** [[Jean-François Legendre-Héral]], French sculptor (d. [[1851]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Joseph Parkes]], British politician (d. [[1865]])
* [[January 23]]
** [[Karl Ernst Claus]], Baltic-German chemist, naturalist (d. [[1864]])
** [[George Francis Lyon]], English naval officer and explorer (d. [[1832]])
** [[Jean Reboul]], French poet (d. [[1864]])
* [[January 24]] – [[Nicolas Mori]], British musician and publisher (d. [[1839]])
* [[January 25]]
** [[William MacGillivray]], British naturalist and ornithologist (d. [[1852]])
** [[Samuel Stokely]], American politician (d. [[1861]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Nathaniel W. Watkins]], Confederate Army general (d. [[1876]])
* [[January 29]]
** [[Peter Joseph Elvenich]], German theologian and philosopher (d. [[1886]])
** [[Théobald de Lacrosse]], French soldier and politician (d. [[1865]])
* [[January 30]]
** [[James M. Elam]], American politician (d. [[1856]])
** [[Albert Gallup]], American politician (d. [[1851]])
** [[Jakob Sotriffer]], Austrian sculptor (d. [[1856]])
** [[John Ternouth]], British artist (d. [[1848]])
* [[January 31]]
** [[Anna Elisabeth Hartwick]], Swedish lace industrialist (d. [[1882]])
** [[Nathaniel Jocelyn]], American artist (d. [[1881]])
** [[Ebenezer Jackson Jr.]], American politician (d. [[1874]])
** [[Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann]], German astronomer (d. [[1840]])
** [[Christian Frederick Martin]], American luthier (d. [[1873]])
** [[Alfred Inigo Suckling]], British antiquarian (d. [[1856]])