Births
- January 4 – Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist (d. 1839)
- January 12 – Ettore Perrone di San Martino, prime minister of Sardinia (d. 1849)
- January 21 – William Machin Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (d. 1865)
- February 22 – René Edward De Russy, Brigadier General of the United States Army, Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, and military engineer (d. 1865)
- March 16 – Georg Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
- May 1 – George Fife Angas, Founder of South Australia (d. 1879)
- July 19 – John Martin, English painter (d. 1854)
- August 21 – Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)
- August 28 – Stephanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860)
- September 15 – James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (d. 1851)
- October 8 – William John Swainson an English naturalist and artist (d. 1855)
- December 15 – Edward B Dudley, North Carolina governor
- December 28 – Catharine Sedgwick, American writer (d. 1867)
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- Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq, Urdu poet (d. 1854)
- Friedrich List, German journalist (d. 1846)
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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)