Editing 1798 (section)

=== April ===
* [[April 1]]
** [[Jean-Baptiste Glaire]], French academic (d. [[1879]])
** [[George Gilliam Steele]], American architect (d. [[1855]])
* [[April 2]]
** [[John Green Chambers]], American physician, pharmacist, politician (d. [[1884]])
** [[August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben]], German scholar and poet (d. [[1874]])
** [[Alexander De Witt]], American politician (d. [[1879]])
* [[April 3]]
** [[John Banim]], Irish writer (d. [[1842]])
** [[Louis Lacoste]], Canadian politician (d. [[1878]])
** [[Charles Wilkes]], US naval officer and explorer (d. [[1877]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Charles Symmes]], Canadian politician (d. [[1868]])
* [[April 5]]
** [[Jonas Chickering]], US piano manufacturer (d. [[1853]])
** [[Marie Amélie Cogniet]], French painter (d. [[1869]])
** [[Jean-Jacques-Joseph Leroy d'Etiolles]], French surgeon (d. [[1860]])
** [[John Harfield Tredgold]], British pharmacist (d. [[1842]])
** [[Louis-Désiré Véron]], French politician and opera director (d. [[1867]])
* [[April 6]]
** [[James Beckwourth]], American mountain man (d. [[1866]])
** [[Jonas Wallström]], Swedish decorative painter (d. [[1862]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Félix Chadenet]], French politician (d. [[1874]])
* [[April 8]]
** [[Joel Hayden]], American lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (d. [[1873]])
** [[Levin M. Powell]], American military officer (d. [[1885]])
** [[Ramón de la Sagra]], Spanish economist, sociologist, botanist, political writer (d. [[1871]])
** [[Dionysios Solomos]], Greek poet (d. [[1857]])
* [[April 9]]
** [[Arphaxed Loomis]], American politician (d. [[1885]])
** [[Frederik Thorkildsen Wexschall]], Classical violinist (d. [[1845]])
* [[April 10]]
** [[Walter Frederick Campbell]], British politician (d. [[1855]])
** [[William Greenwood (cricketer)|William Greenwood]], cricketer (d. [[1872]])
** [[Amasa Sprague]], American businessman and politician (d. [[1843]])
** [[John Lewis Wolfe]], architect (d. [[1881]])
* [[April 11]]
** [[Pierce Mason Butler]], American politician (d. [[1846]])
** [[Joseph N. Chambers]], American politician and Army officer (d. [[1874]])
** [[Macedonio Melloni]], English army officer and politician (d. [[1847]])
** [[Alfred V. du Pont]], American chemist and industrialist (d. [[1856]])
* [[April 12]]
** [[Elijah Fordham]], American missionary (d. [[1879]])
** [[Ambrogio Frangiolli]], Italian painter (d. [[1870]])
** [[Caleb S. Layton]], American politician (d. [[1882]])
** [[Baron du Potet]], French writer (d. [[1881]])
* [[April 13]] – [[Cornelius Gilliam]], American politician (d. [[1848]])
* [[April 14]]
** [[William Clark Jr. (1798–1871)|William Clark Jr.]], American politician (d. [[1871]])
** [[Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer]], British Royal Navy admiral (d. [[1857]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Jacques Bernard Hombron]], French naval surgeon and naturalist (d. [[1852]])
* [[April 16]]
** [[Fanny Gulick]], American missionary (d. [[1883]])
** [[Oswald Houston]], American pioneer (d. [[1861]])
** [[Georg Klindworth]], Diplomat and intelligence agent (d. [[1882]])
* [[April 17]]
** [[Étienne Bobillier]], French mathematician (d. [[1840]])
** [[Harriet Byron McAllister]], American philanthropist (d. [[1888]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Antonio Rolla]], Italian musician (d. [[1837]])
* [[April 19]]
** [[Darius Clark]], musician (d. [[1871]])
** [[Franz Joseph Glæser]], Czech conductor and composer (d. [[1861]])
** [[Heinrich Maria von Hess]], German painter (d. [[1863]])
** [[Andrea Maffei]], Italian poet, translator and librettist (d. [[1885]])
* [[April 20]]
** [[Frederick Crowder (cricketer, born 1798)|Frederick Crowder]], English cricketer (d. [[1894]])
** [[Dermide Leclerc]], French nobility (d. [[1804]])
** [[William Edmond Logan]], British-Canadian geologist (d. [[1875]])
** [[Chauncy Hare Townshend]], English poet (d. [[1868]])
* [[April 22]]
** [[Date Nariyoshi]], Daimyo (d. [[1828]])
** [[Adolf von Rauch (born 1798)|Adolf von Rauch]], German paper manufacturer (d. [[1882]])
* [[April 23]]
** [[Édouard Alletz]], French diplomat (d. [[1850]])
** [[Richard M. Blatchford (attorney)|Richard M. Blatchford]], banking and trust lawyer, politician (d. [[1875]])
* [[April 24]]
** [[Paul Duport]], French playwright (d. [[1866]])
** [[William Edward Petty Hartnell]], California pioneer (d. [[1854]])
* [[April 26]]
** [[Charles-François Baillargeon]], Catholic archbishop (d. [[1870]])
** [[Eugène Delacroix]], French painter (d. [[1863]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Clement | first = Russell | title = Four French symbolists: a sourcebook on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Maurice Denis | publisher = Greenwood Press | location = Westport, Conn | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780313297526 | page=}}</ref>
* [[April 27]]
** [[Claire Clairmont]], British writer, mother of Lord Byron's daughter (d. [[1879]])
** [[Peder Christian Holst]], Norwegian politician (d. [[1873]])
** [[Pieter Barbiers IV]], painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. [[1848]])
** [[Lars Bastian Ridder Stabell]], Norwegian politician (d. [[1860]])
** [[François Thomas Tréhouart]], French admiral (d. [[1873]])
* [[April 28]]
** [[Duncan Forbes (linguist)|Duncan Forbes]], Scottish linguist (d. [[1868]])
** [[William Russell (educator)|William Russell]], educator and elocutionist (d. [[1873]])
* [[April 29]] – [[Carlo Yvon]], Italian oboist and composer (d. [[1854]])
* [[April 30]]
** [[Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt]] (d. [[1869]])
** [[Charles-Auguste van den Berghe]], painter from France (d. [[1853]])