Births
- 1790: December 23 - Jean-François Champollion (d. 1832), decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs
- 1793: January 22 - Caspar Reuvens (d. 1835), founder of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, first professor of archaeology
- 1796: date unknown - John MacEnery, priest and early archaeologist (d. 1841)
- 1797: October 5 - John Gardiner Wilkinson, English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist (d. 1875)
- 1799: December 12 (23) - Karl Brullov, author of Last Day of Pompeii (d. 1852)
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