Births
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- February 6 – Ugo Foscolo (died 1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet
- April 10 – William Hazlitt (died 1830), English writer essayist and critic
- August 22 – James Kirke Paulding (died 1860), American novelist, poet, and a United States Secretary of the Navy; a writer for Salamagundi magazine who took it over before it failed
- September 9 – Clemens Brentano (died 1842), German poet and novelist
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)