Births
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- August 25 – John Neal, (died 1876), author, art critic, literary critic and poet, who refused to emulate British authors by writing strictly in a clean tone, instead writing more as he spoke and allowing his characters to speak gruffly, if the story called for it; also an early women's rights advocate, prohibitionist, temperance advocate, accomplished lawyer, boxer, and architect who reportedly, at the age of 79, threw a smoker off a non-smoking trolley when the man refused to stop
- John Clare (died 1864), English poet
- Felicia Dorothea Hemans (died 1835), English poet
- Henry Francis Lyte (died 1847), Anglican divine and hymn-writer born in Scotland
- Standish O'Grady about this year (died 1841), Irish-Canadian poet and priest
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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)