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- January 31 – Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, and artist (died 1846)[9]
- February 4
- March – Dorothea Tieck, German translator (died 1841)
- March 12 – Mary Howitt, English writer, poet and translator (died 1888)
- March 13 – Maria Dorothea Dunckel, Swedish poet, translator and dramatist (died 1878)
- March 20 – Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (died 1839)[11]
- April 17 – Eliza Acton, English poet and cookery writer (died 1859)[12]
- May 13 – Catherine Gore, English author (died 1861)
- May 20 – Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (died 1850)[13]
- May 23 – Thomas Hood, English poet (died 1845)[14]
- June 6 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian dramatist and poet (died 1837)
- October 9 – Louisa Stuart Costello Irish writer on travel and history (died 1870)
- November 29 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American writer, philosopher, and reformer (died 1888)[15]
- December 30 – John Moultrie, English poet and hymnist (died 1874)
- unknown date – Rallou Karatza, Greek Wallachian translator and theatrical promoter (died 1870)
An encyclopedia of British women writers (Rev. and expanded ed.). New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 1998. p. 1. ISBN 0813525438.
Little, Iain (1984). Honoré de Balzac, Le père Goriot. Harlow: Longman. p. 5. ISBN 9780582781863.
Lichtenberg, Georg (2012). Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : philosophical writings, selected from the Waste books. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 2. ISBN 9781438441986.
Davis, John (2006). Naples and Napoleon: southern Italy and the European revolutions (1780-1860. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. p. 121. ISBN 9780191564529.
Mueller von Asow; Erich Hermann; Mueller von Asow (1962). Collected Correspondence and Papers. Barrie and Rockliff. p. 67.