Births
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- January 5 – David Macbeth Moir (died 1851), Scottish
- March 30 – Luise Hensel (died 1876), German
- April 8 – Dionysios Solomos Διονύσιος Σολωμός (died 1857), Greek poet best known for the Hymn to Liberty, the first two stanzas of which became the Greek national anthem
- June 29 – Count Giacomo Leopardi (died 1837), Italian
- September 20 – Samuel Henry Dickson (died 1872), American poet, physician, writer and educator
- December 24 - Adam Mickiewicz (died 1855), Polish Romantic poet
- Also:
- Macdonald Clarke, American
- Andrea Maffei (died 1885), Italian poet, translator and librettist
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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)