1780s

The 1780s (pronounced "seventeen-eighties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1780, and ended on December 31, 1789. A period widely considered as transitional between the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, the 1780s saw the inception of modern philosophy. With the rise of astronomical, technological, and political discoveries and innovations such as Uranus, cast iron on structures, republicanism and hot-air balloons, the 1780s kick-started a rapid global industrialization movement, leaving behind the world's predominantly agrarian customs in the past.

From top left, clockwise: The fall of the Bastille propelled the start of the French Revolutionary War, a war that will eventually influence global politics by the birth of democracy in governments, and conceive the idea of republicanism worldwide; The first hydrogen balloons flew successfully this decade by Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert; George Washington becomes president of the United States of America. His ascension into office marked him as America's first president; The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia by delegates of the Constitutional Convention, beginning the document's ratification process; Uranus is discovered in 1781 by William Herschel, further expanding the global scientific consensuses and understanding on the Solar System, recognizing it as the seventh planet from the Sun; The Iron Bridge opens, making it the world's very first bridge made out of cast iron, ushering in the preliminary wave of the Industrial Revolution; The Montgolfier brothers manned the world's first hot-air balloon, which stayed afloat 2 kilometres above ground in its 1783 voyage; Icelandic volcano Laki erupted in 1783, unleashing an 8-month-long environmental destruction and widespread famine across Europe. Up to 33% of Iceland's population and tens of thousands more in Mainland Europe succumbed to the chain of disasters, leading the eruption to be dubbed as "one of the worst" in contemporary history.

1780

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January–March

• January 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet.
• February 19 – The legislature of New York votes to allow its delegates to cede a portion of its western territory to the Continental Congress for the common benefit of the war.^[1]
• March 1 – The legislature of Pennsylvania votes, 34 to 21, to approve An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery.^[2]
• March 11
  • The First League of Armed Neutrality is formed by Russia with Denmark and Sweden to try to prevent the British Royal Navy from searching neutral vessels for contraband (February 28 O.S.).
  • General Lafayette embarks on French frigate Hermione at Rochefort, arriving in Boston on April 28, carrying the news that he has secured French men and ships to reinforce the American side in the American Revolutionary War.
• March 17 – American Revolutionary War: The British San Juan Expedition sails from Jamaica under the command of Captains John Polson and Horatio Nelson to attack the Captaincy General of Guatemala (modern-day Nicaragua) in New Spain.
• March 26 – The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, the first Sunday newspaper in Britain, begins publication.

April–June

• April 16 – The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
• April 29 – American Revolutionary War: The Spanish commander of the Fortress of the Immaculate Conception on the San Juan River in modern-day Nicaragua surrenders it to the British San Juan Expedition.
• May 4 – The first Epsom Derby horse race is run on Epsom Downs, Surrey, England.^[3] The victor is Diomed.^[4]
• May 12 – American Revolutionary War: Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces after 44 days of siege.
• May 13 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by American settlers, in the Cumberland Valley of Tennessee.
• May 19 – New England's Dark Day: An unaccountable darkness spreads over New England, regarded by some observers as a fulfillment of Bible prophecy.^[5][6]
• May 29 – American Revolutionary War – Waxhaw Massacre: Loyalist forces under Colonel Banastre Tarleton kill surrendering American soldiers.
• June 2 – An Anti-Catholic mob led by Lord George Gordon marches on the Parliament of Great Britain, leading to the outbreak of the Gordon Riots in London.^[4]
• June 7 – The Gordon Riots in London are ended by the intervention of troops. About 285 people are shot dead, with another 200 wounded and around 450 arrested.
• June 23 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Springfield: The Continental Army defeats the British in New Jersey.

July–September

• July 11 – French soldiers arrive in Newport, Rhode Island to reinforce the colonists, in the American Revolutionary War.^[7]
• July 17 – The first bank created in the United States, the Bank of Pennsylvania, is chartered.^[2]
• August 9 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish admiral Luis de Córdova y Córdova captures a British convoy totalling 55 vessels amongst Indiamen, frigates and other cargo ships off Cape St. Vincent.^[8][9]
• August 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Camden: British troops inflict heavy losses on a Patriot army at Camden, South Carolina.
• August 24 – Louis XVI of France abolishes the use of torture in extracting confessions.
• September 21 – Benedict Arnold gives detailed plans of West Point to Major John André. Three days later, André is captured, with papers revealing that Arnold was planning to surrender West Point to the British.
• September 25 – Benedict Arnold flees to British-held New York.
• September 29 – The Danish ship-of-the-line Printz Friderich runs aground on the Kobbergrund shoal and is a total loss

October–December

• October 2 – American Revolutionary War: In Tappan, New York, British spy John André is hanged by American forces.
• October 7 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain: Patriot militia forces annihilate Loyalists under British Major Patrick Ferguson, at Kings Mountain, South Carolina.
• October 10–16 – The Great Hurricane flattens the islands of Barbados, Martinique and Sint Eustatius; 22,000 are killed.
• November 4 – Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II: In the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, Túpac Amaru II leads an uprising of Aymara and Quechua peoples and mestizo peasants as a protest against the Bourbon Reforms.
• November 28 – A lightning strike in Saint Petersburg begins a fire that burns 11,000 homes.^[10]
• November 29 – Maria Theresa of Austria dies in Vienna after 40 years of rule, and her Habsburg dominions pass to her ambitious son, Joseph II, who has already been Holy Roman Emperor since 1765.
• November 30 – American Revolutionary War: The British San Juan Expedition is forced to withdraw.
• December 14 – Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
• December 16 – Emperor Kōkaku accedes to the throne of Japan.
• December 20 – The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War begins.^[11]

Date unknown

• Jose Gabriel Kunturkanki, businessman and landowner, proclaims himself Inca Túpac Amaru II.
• The Duke of Richmond calls, in the House of Lords of Great Britain, for manhood suffrage and annual parliaments, which are rejected.
• Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to Principles of Morals and Legislation, presenting his formulation of utilitarian ethics, is printed (but not published) in London.
• Nikephoros Theotokis starts introducing Edinoverie, an attempt to integrate the Old Believers into Russia's established church.
• The Woodford Reserve bourbon whiskey distillery begins operation in Kentucky.
• In Ireland, Lady Berry, who is sentenced to death for the murder of her son, is released when she agrees to become an executioner (she retires in 1810).
• The Jameson Irish Whiskey distillery is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
• The original Craven Cottage is built by William Craven, 6th Baron Craven, in London, on what will become the centre circle of Fulham F.C.'s pitch.
• The amateur dramatic group Det Dramatiske Selskab is founded in Christiania, Norway.
• Western countries pay 16,000,000 ounces of silver for Chinese goods.
• The Kingdom of Great Britain reaches c.9 million population.

Births

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1780

Carl von Clausewitz

• January 13 – Pierre Jean Robiquet, French chemist (d. 1840)
• January 14 – Henry Baldwin, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1844)^[120]
• February 1 – David Porter, American naval officer (d. 1843)
• February 3 – Mihail G. Boiagi, Aromanian grammarian and professor (d. uncertain)^[121]
• February 19 – Richard McCarty, American politician (d. 1844)
• February 25 – John Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1862)
• March 25 – Joseph Ritner, American politician (d. 1869)
• March 29 – Jørgen Jørgensen, Danish adventurer (d. 1841)
• April 7 – William Ellery Channing, influential American Unitarian theologian and minister (d. 1842)
• April 26 – Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, German naturalist (d. 1860)
• April 29 – Charles Nodier, French author (d. 1844)
• May 1 – John McKinley, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1852)
• May 21 – Elizabeth Fry, British humanitarian (d. 1845)
• May 29 – Henri Braconnot, French chemist, pharmacist (d. 1855)
• June 1 – Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian military strategist (d. 1831)
• July 4 – Sofia Hjärne, Finnish baroness, writer (d. 1860)
• July 5 – François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (d. 1838)
• July 15 – Emilie Petersen, Swedish philanthropist (d. 1859)
• July 27 – Anastasio Bustamante, 4th President of Mexico (d. 1853)
• August 29
  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
  • Richard Rush, United States Attorney General under James Madison, United States Secretary of the Treasury under President John Quincy Adams (d. 1859)
• October 20 – Pauline Bonaparte, Italian noblewoman (d. 1825)
• October 28 – Ernst Anschütz, German teacher, organist, poet, and composer (d. 1861)
• November 13 – Ranjit Singh, Maharaja of The Punjab (Sikh Empire), (d. 1839)^[122]
• December 13 – Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist (d. 1849)
• December 26 – Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)

• James Justinian Morier, British diplomat and novelist (d. 1849)
• Manuela Medina, Mexican national heroine (d. 1822)
• Elizabeth Philpot, British paleontologist (d. 1857)
• Jahonotin Uvaysiy, Uzbek Sufi poet (d. 1845)

1781

• January 26 – Achim von Arnim, German novelist and poet (d. 1831)^[123]
• January 30 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German poet and scientist (d. 1838)^[124]
• February 17 – René Laennec, French physician and inventor (d. 1826)
• March 1 – Javiera Carrera, Chilean independence campaigner (d. 1862)
• March 4 – Rebecca Gratz, American educator, philanthropist (d. 1869)
• March 13 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect, painter (d. 1841)

Swaminarayan

• April 3 – Swaminarayan, Indian Hindu reformer and deity (d. 1830)
• May 9 – Henri Cassini, French botanist and naturalist (d. 1832)

George Stephenson

• June 9 – George Stephenson, English engineer, designer of railway locomotives Locomotion No. 1, Rocket (d. 1848)
• June 21 – Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician, physicist (d. 1840)
• July 6
  • Stamford Raffles, English founder of Singapore (d. 1826)
  • John D. Sloat, American naval officer (d. 1867)
• July 27 – Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1829)
• September 3 – Eugène de Beauharnais, French nobleman, son of Napoleon's wife Joséphine (d. 1824)
• September 5 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor and composer (d. 1858)^[125]
• October 5 – Bernard Bolzano, Czech philosopher and mathematician (d. 1848)
• October 22 – Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (d. 1789)
• November 1 – Joseph Karl Stieler, German painter (d. 1858)
• November 6
  • Lucy Aikin, English writer (d. 1864)
  • Maha Bandula, Commander-in-chief of the Burmese military forces (d. 1825)
• November 20 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (d. 1854)
• November 29 – Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, teacher, philosopher, sociologist (d. 1865)^[126]
• November 30 – Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer, Australian pioneer (d. 1873)
• December 11 – Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist (d. 1868)

• Sanité Bélair, Haitian national heroine (d. 1802)
• Haji Shariatullah, Bengali Islamic scholar (d. 1840)^[127]
• William Williams of Wern, Welsh minister (d. 1840)

1782

Philipp Franz von Walther born 3 January

Stephen Lushington born 14 January

Afanasy Grigoriev born 21 January

Daniel Auber born 29 January

Fyodor Tolstoy born 6 February

Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer born 8 February

Malla Silfverstolpe born 8 February

William Miller born 15 February

Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl born 23 February

Louise Antoinette Lannes born 26 February

Marie Thérèse Haze born 27 February

Suzanne le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau born 1 March

Johann Rudolf Wyss born 4 March

Ferdinand Gottlieb von Gmelin born 10 March

Orest Kiprensky born 13 March

Aglaé Auguié born 24 March

Caroline Bonaparte born 25 March

María Antonia Santos Plata born 10 April

Prince Teimuraz of Georgia born 23 April

William Darlington born 28 April

Charles-René Laitié born 6 May

Marcia Van Ness born 9 May

Johan Gustaf Sandberg born 13 May

Johann Rombauer born 28 May

Charles Waterton born 3 June

Marie-Anne-Julie Forestier born 13 June

Olry Terquem born 16 June

Charles Floyd born 20 June

Fortunée Briquet born 26 June

Pierre Berthier born 3 July

Rosa Morandi born 5 July

Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca born 6 July

Sophie Ørsted born 16 July

Mariano Enrique Calvo born 18 July

John Field born 26 July

Charles James Napier born 10 August

Charles Lowell born 15 August

Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri born 17 August

Prince Carl Gustav, Duke of Småland born 25 August

Christian Ludwig Nitzsch born 3 September

Marie of Baden born 7 September

Daoguang Emperor born 16 September

Christoph Hawich born 17 September

Stephen Price born 25 September

Richard Peek born 3 October

Charles Maclaren born 7 October

Steen Steensen Blicher born 11 October

Niccolò Paganini born 27 October

Lorenzo Maria of Saint Francis Xavier born 30 October

F. J. Robinson born 1 November

John Pye born 7 November

Joseph Kornhäusel born 13 November

Sophie Swetchine born 22 November

Karl Johann Bernhard Karsten born 26 November

Henry William Pickersgill born 3 December

Waleria Tarnowska born 9 December

Charles Nicolas Fabvier born 10 December

Hans Jakob Oeri born 16 December

Julius Vincenz von Krombholz born 19 December

Therese Brunetti born 24 December

Philaret Drozdov born 26 December

Matthias Joseph de Noël born 28 December

Konstantin Bulgakov born 31 December

• January 1 – John Bell, British army officer (d. 1876)
• January 2
  • Hugo von Bosch, Bavarian general and politician (d. 1865)
  • Hosea Hildreth, educator and minister in Massachusetts and New Hampshire (d. 1835)
  • El Pípila, Mexican miner and freedom fighter (d. 1863)
  • Thomas Starkie, British lawyer (d. 1849)
• January 3
  • Turner Saunders, American preacher (d. 1854)
  • Philipp Franz von Walther, German ophthalmologist (d. 1849)
• January 5 – Robert Morrison, British evangelist and first Protestant missionary in China (d. 1834)
• January 8
  • William Mudford, British journalist and writer (d. 1848)
  • Tommaso Riario Sforza, Italian cardinal (d. 1857)
• January 9 – Benning M. Bean, American politician (d. 1866)
• January 11 – Jean Laforgue, French scholar (d. 1852)
• January 12 – Martin Flint, American politician (d. 1855)
• January 13 – Robert Aspland, English Unitarian minister (d. 1845)
• January 14
  • Carl Ferdinand Langhans, German architect (d. 1869)
  • Stephen Lushington, British judge and Member of Parliament (d. 1873)
  • Thomas Sergeant, American lawyer and politician (d. 1860)
  • Peder Tonning, Norwegian politician (d. 1839)
• January 15
  • Elkanah Kelsey Dare, American composer (d. 1826)
  • Nikolaus Wolfgang Fischer, German physician and chemist (d. 1850)
  • Ōkubo Tadazane, daimyo (d. 1837)
• January 18
  • William Gosset, British Member of Parliament (d. 1848)
  • Daniel Webster, 14th and 19th United States Secretary of State (d. 1852)
• January 19
  • Michel Bibaud, Canadian writer (d. 1857)
  • John J. Chappell, American politician (d. 1871)
  • William Eden, British soldier and politician (d. 1810)
  • William Harris, 2nd Baron Harris, British Army general (d. 1845)
• January 20
  • Archduke John of Austria, Austrian soldier, imperial regent of the German Empire (d. 1859)
  • William Nott, British general (d. 1845)
• January 21
  • Jan George Bertelman, Dutch composer (d. 1854)
  • Afanasy Grigoriev, Russian architect (d. 1868)
  • James Patrick Murray, British politician (d. 1834)
• January 22
  • Philip Hamilton, son of American Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton (d. 1801)
  • Franciszek Ksawery Lampi, Austrian artist (d. 1852)
  • John Mitford, British naval officer and author (d. 1831)
• January 23 – José Francisco Bermúdez, Venezuelan revolutionary (d. 1831)
• January 24 – Charles K. Williams, American politician (d. 1853)
• January 25 – Johann Michael Ackner, Austrian archaeologist (d. 1862)
• January 26
  • William George Keith Elphinstone, British Army general (d. 1842)
  • Cornelius P. Van Ness, American politician (d. 1852)
• January 27
  • John Lea, US epidemiologist (d. 1862)
  • Titumir, Bengali revolutionary (d. 1831)^[128]
• January 29
  • Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)
  • Daniel Parker, Adjutant general and inspector general of the US Army (d. 1846)
  • Franciszek Ścigalski, Polish composer and violinist (d. 1846)
• January 30
  • Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret, French painter (d. 1863)
  • James Caulfeild, British politician (d. 1852)
  • Wincenty Krasiński, nobleman, political activist and military leader (d. 1858)
  • Ann Taylor, British poet and literary critic (d. 1866)
• February 1 – Bill Johnston, American pirate (d. 1870)
• February 2
  • James Chalmers, alleged Scottish inventor of the adhesive postage stamp (d. 1853)
  • Henri de Rigny, commander of the French squadron at the Battle of Navarino in the Greek War of Independence (d. 1835)
• February 3
  • John Macdonald Kinneir, British diplomat (d. 1830)
  • John Lamont, Scottish sugar planter in Trinidad (d. 1850)
  • William Pinnock, British publisher and educational writer (d. 1843)
  • Ansel Sterling, American politician (d. 1853)
• February 4
  • Charles William Grant, 5th Baron de Longueuil (d. 1848)
  • Henry Lee, US political economist (d. 1867)
• February 6 – Fyodor Tolstoy, Russian explorer (d. 1846)
• February 8
  • Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, Russian botanist (d. 1854)
  • Juan Cuevas Perales, Spanish composer (d. 1855)
  • Malla Silfverstolpe, Swedish salon-holder (d. 1861)
• February 9
  • William Havell, British artist (d. 1857)
  • Philip Shuttleworth, English churchman and academic, Bishop of Chichester (d. 1842)
• February 10
  • Robert Hallowell Gardiner, American land owner (d. 1864)
  • Jean-Marie-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny, French magistrate (d. 1852)
  • Niels Arntzen Sem, Norwegian politician (d. 1859)
  • Ashur Ware, United States federal judge (d. 1873)
• February 11
  • William Lowndes, American politician, enslaver (d. 1822)
  • Henri Jean de Rouvroy, Marquis of Saint-Simon, French soldier, diplomat, politician, officer (d. 1865)
• February 12 – Auguste de Schonen, French politician (d. 1849)
• February 14
  • Eleanora Atherton, English philanthropist (d. 1870)
  • Ephraim Sturdivant, American veteran (d. 1868)
• February 15
  • John H. Dent, United States Navy officer (d. 1823)
  • William Miller, American religious leader (d. 1849)
  • Louis Perrin, Irish politician (d. 1864)
• February 17 – Thomas Baxter, British artist (d. 1821)
• February 19
  • Christopher Anderson, theological writer and preacher (d. 1852)
  • Henry Bentley, English first-class cricketer (d. 1857)
  • Princess Pauline, Duchess of Sagan, Princess of Courland (d. 1845)
• February 22
  • Karl Stefan Aichelburg, Austrian musician (d. 1817)
  • James Towers English, Irish military commander (d. 1819)
  • John Gebhard, American politician (d. 1854)
  • Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann, German mineralogist (d. 1859)
• February 23
  • John Wilson Campbell, US federal judge (d. 1833)
  • Peder Nielsen Hemb, Norwegian politician (d. 1850)
  • Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl, Australian botanist, entomologist, geologist, physician (d. 1834)
• February 24 – Thomas Uwins, British artist (d. 1857)
• February 25 – William Sturgis, American merchant and politician (d. 1863)
• February 26 – Louise Antoinette Lannes, Duchess of Montebello, French noble (d. 1856)
• February 27 – Marie Thérèse Haze, Belgian Religious Sister and foundress, beatified (d. 1876)
• February 28 – Josef Božek, Czech engineer and inventor (d. 1835)
• March 1 – Suzanne le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, French noblewoman (d. 1829)
• March 2
  • Isaac Pocock, English dramatist and painter (d. 1835)
  • Edward Sheldon, politician (d. 1836)
• March 3
  • Joseph Edson, US Marshal for Vermont (d. 1832)
  • Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville, French writer and librarian (d. 1870)
• March 4
  • Gabriel-Alexandre Belle, French writer (d. 1855)
  • Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss writer (d. 1830)
• March 5 – Wacław Hański, Polish noble (d. 1841)
• March 6
  • Andreas Bonnevie, Norwegian politician (d. 1833)
  • Karoline von Woltmann, German translator and writer (d. 1847)
• March 7
  • Henryka Beyer, Polish artist (d. 1855)
  • Angelo Mai, cardinal and philologist in Italy (d. 1854)
  • Charles Sterrett Ridgely, American land developer and legislator (d. 1847)
• March 8 – Nicoll Halsey, American politician (d. 1865)
• March 9 – Jean-François Boch, Luxembourgish industrialist and politician (d. 1858)
• March 10
  • Ferdinand Gottlieb von Gmelin, German physician, natural historian, chemist and explorer (d. 1848)
  • Charles Gray, Captain in the Royal Marines (d. 1851)
• March 13
  • Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (d. 1863)
  • Orest Kiprensky, Russian artist (d. 1836)
  • Jacob Krebs, American politician (d. 1847)
  • Ivan Leontiev, Imperial Russian general who fought in the Napoleonic Wars (d. 1824)
• March 14
  • Thomas Hart Benton, State Senator from Tennessee (d. 1858)
  • Nathaniel F. Williams, American politician (d. 1864)
• March 16
  • William Graham, Indiana politician (d. 1858)
  • Vasili Krasovsky, Russian writer (d. 1824)
• March 17
  • Billy Caldwell, British-Potawatomi and American fur trader (d. 1841)
  • Franz Körte, German agronomist (d. 1845)
  • Sophie von Kühn, German noble (d. 1797)
  • John Styles, English Congregational minister and animal rights writer (d. 1849)
• March 18
  • John C. Calhoun, vice president of the United States (d. 1850)
  • José Gabriel de Silva-Bazán, 10th Marquess of Santa Cruz, Spanish diplomat and politician (d. 1839)
• March 19
  • Wilhelm von Biela, Austrian astronomer (d. 1856)
  • Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby, English politician (d. 1865)
• March 20 – James Tod, English officer of the British East India Company, oriental scholar (d. 1835)
• March 21 – Józef Goldtmann, Polish priest (d. 1852)
• March 22 – James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale, British barrister and judge (d. 1868)
• March 23
  • William C. Bradley, American politician (d. 1867)
  • John Sudam, American politician (d. 1835)
• March 24
  • Aglaé Auguié, French court official (d. 1854)
  • William Owsley, 16th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1862)
• March 25
  • Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples and Sicily (d. 1839)
  • Edward Grey, British Anglican bishop of Hereford (d. 1837)
• March 26
  • Charles-Maurice Descombes, French playwright and literary critic (d. 1869)
  • Benjamin Joseph Frobisher, Canadian politician (d. 1821)
• March 29
  • Thomas Bryn, father of the Constitution of Norway, member of Stortinget (d. 1827)
  • John Dickinson, British inventor (d. 1869)
  • Stephen Reay, Scottish priest, orientalist (d. 1861)
• March 31
  • Jesse Ketchum, Canadian politician (d. 1867)
  • Louis-Hippolyte Lebas, French architect (d. 1867)
  • Samuel Prentiss, United States federal judge (d. 1857)

• April 1
  • James Daly, 1st Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal, British politician (d. 1847)
  • George C. Sibley, American explorer and politician (d. 1863)
• April 2 – Johannes West, Inspector of Greenland (d. 1835)
• April 3
  • Daniel Garrison, American politician (d. 1851)
  • William Lyttelton, 3rd Baron Lyttelton, English Whig politician (d. 1837)
  • Alexander Macomb, United States Army general (d. 1841)
• April 4
  • Vincenzo Flauti, Italian mathematician (d. 1863)
  • George Rowley, British academic (d. 1836)
• April 5
  • James R. Manley, American physician (d. 1851)
  • Edward West, British economist and judge in India (d. 1828)
• April 7 – Marie-Anne Libert, Belgian botanist and mycologist (d. 1865)
• April 9 – Joseph Hunter Bryan, American politician (d. 1839)
• April 10 – María Antonia Santos Plata, Neogranadine rebel leader & heroine (d. 1819)
• April 11 – Abraham Abell, Irish antiquarian (d. 1851)
• April 14 – Carlo Coccia, Italian composer (d. 1873)
• April 15 – Eleazer W. Ripley, American politician (d. 1839)
• April 16
  • William Jerdan, Scottish journalist (d. 1869)
  • Toribio de Luzuriaga, Argentinian military personnel (d. 1842)
• April 17
  • Joseph Carne, British geologist and industrialist (d. 1858)
  • Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne, British diplomat (d. 1853)
• April 18 – Georg August Goldfuss, German paleontologist, mineralogist, zoologist and botanist (d. 1848)
• April 21
  • Friedrich Fröbel, German pedagogue (d. 1852)
  • Samuel Hibbert-Ware, British geologist and antiquarian (d. 1848)
• April 23 – Prince Teimuraz of Georgia, Georgian royal prince and scholar (d. 1846)
• April 25 – Adriano Balbi, Italian geographer (d. 1848)
• April 26 – Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (d. 1866)^[129]
• April 27 – Jeptha Vining Harris, Georgia militia Brigadier General (d. 1856)
• April 28 – William Darlington, American physician, botanist, politician (d. 1863)
• April 29 – James Fowle Baldwin, American engineer (d. 1862)
• May 1 – Yevgeny Golovin, Russian general (d. 1858)
• May 4
  • James Bathurst, British Army officer (d. 1850)
  • Friedrich Philipp Ritterich, German ophthalmologist (d. 1866)
  • John R. Williams, American politician (d. 1854)
• May 5 – Edward Richard Stewart, British politician (d. 1851)
• May 6
  • Charles-René Laitié, French sculptor (d. 1862)
  • Edward Charles Whinyates, English army officer (d. 1865)
• May 8 – Ivan Paskevich, military leader of Ukrainian descent (d. 1856)
• May 9
  • Virgil Horace Barber, American Jesuit (d. 1847)
  • Marcia Van Ness, founded Washington Orphan Asylum in 1815 (d. 1832)
• May 10 – Louis-René Villermé, French economist (d. 1863)
• May 12 – Lippmann Moses Büschenthal, German poet (d. 1818)
• May 13
  • Henry A. P. Muhlenberg, American politician (d. 1844)
  • Johan Gustaf Sandberg, Swedish artist (d. 1854)
  • Ferdinand de Bertier de Sauvigny, French politician (d. 1864)
• May 14
  • John McElroy, Jesuit Priest (d. 1877)
  • Antoine-Marie Roederer, French politician (d. 1865)
• May 16 – John Sell Cotman, British artist (d. 1842)
• May 18
  • John Ferneley, English painter (d. 1860)
  • Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, Prussian lieutenant-general (d. 1834)
  • Valerian Madatov, Russian general (d. 1829)
  • Gilbert C. Russell, American military officer (d. 1861)
• May 19
  • Rowland Stephenson, British politician (d. 1856)
  • Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, Russian prince and Field Marshal (d. 1856)
• May 22 – Hirose Tansō, Japanese poet and writer (d. 1856)
• May 23
  • Christopher Crackenthorp Askew, British Royal Navy officer, captain in 1822 (d. 1848)
  • Charles Fothergill, Canadian politician (d. 1840)
• May 26
  • Medora Gordon Byron, British Romantic novelist (d. 1858)
  • Joseph Drechsler, Czech conductor, music educator, composer and organist (d. 1852)
  • Erasmo Seguín, head postmaster of San Antonio, Texas (d. 1857)
  • George Small, Scottish piano manufacturer (d. 1861)
  • Sir George Strickland, 7th Baronet, British politician (d. 1874)
• May 27 – Antoni Jan Ostrowski, Polish general (d. 1845)
• May 28
  • Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, 1st Baronet, British surgeon (d. 1857)
  • Johann Rombauer, painter from Hungary (d. 1849)
  • Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk, painter from the Northern Netherlands, 1782–1810 (d. 1810)
• May 29 – James Murray, 1st Baron Glenlyon, British Army general (d. 1837)
• May 30 – John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer, British politician (d. 1845)
• May 31 – Thomas Courtenay, British politician (d. 1841)
• June 1
  • Lord William FitzRoy, British Member of Parliament (d. 1857)
  • Thomas Van Horne, US politician and Ohio State Senator (d. 1841)
  • Konstantin Poltoratsky, lieutenant general of the Imperial Russian Army (d. 1858)
  • Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen, Russian noble and military commander (d. 1805)
• June 3 – Charles Waterton, English naturalist, explorer and conservationist (d. 1865)
• June 4
  • Frédéric Théodore Faber, Belgian painter (d. 1844)
  • Christian Martin Frähn, German and Russian numismatist and historian (d. 1851)
• June 5
  • Lemuel Williams Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1869)
  • Ulrik Frederik Anton de Schouboe, Norwegian civil servant and politician (d. 1863)
• June 6 – Vicenta Moguel, Basque writer and translator (d. 1854)
• June 7 – Rowland Alston, English politician (d. 1865)
• June 8 – Seaton Grantland, American politician (d. 1864)
• June 9
  • Peter Fisher, Canadian historian (d. 1848)
  • Alexander Powell, British Tory politician and MP (d. 1847)
• June 10
  • Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante, French historian and statesman (d. 1866)
  • Ole Christian Andersen Nøstvig, Norwegian politician (d. 1852)
• June 11 – Richard Hill, Church of England clergyman in New South Wales (d. 1836)
• June 12
  • Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (d. 1851)
  • Peter Schmidt, Norwegian politician and businessman (d. 1845)
• June 13
  • Marie-Anne-Julie Forestier, French painter (d. 1853)
  • William Bullein Johnson, American Baptist minister (d. 1862)
• June 14 – Anton Aloys Wolf, Prince-Bishop of Laibach (Ljubljana) (d. 1859)
• June 15 – Alexander George Woodford, British Army officer (d. 1870)
• June 16
  • Nehemiah Eastman, American congressman for New Hampshire (d. 1856)
  • Olry Terquem, French mathematician (d. 1862)
• June 17 – Joseph Slater Jr., British portrait painter and draughtsman (d. 1837)
• June 18
  • George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney, British Baron (d. 1842)
  • Marceli Tarczewski, Polish lawyer (d. 1843)
• June 19 – Félicité de La Mennais, French priest, philosopher and political theorist (d. 1854)
• June 20 – Charles Floyd, American explorer (d. 1804)
• June 21 – Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony (d. 1863)
• June 24
  • Sir William Heygate, 1st Baronet, British MP (d. 1844)
  • Juan Larrea, Argentine politician (d. 1847)
  • Harmanus Peek, American politician (d. 1838)
• June 25 – William O'Brien, Canadian political figure in Nova Scotia (d. 1851)
• June 26
  • Fortunée Briquet, French woman of letters (d. 1815)
  • Juan José Pedro Carrera, Chilean politician (d. 1818)
  • Peter Paul Dobrée, British classical scholar (d. 1825)
• June 29
  • Hans Christian Lyngbye, Danish priest and botanist (d. 1837)
  • William Stockbridge, American businessman (d. 1850)
• June 30 – William Cathcart, Scottish naval officer (d. 1804)
• July 1 – Pieter Hendrik van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Dutch and French army general (d. 1825)
• July 2 – Adrien de Rougé, French statesman, soldier (d. 1838)
• July 3 – Pierre Berthier, French geologist (d. 1861)
• July 4 – Adèle Duchâtel, French court official (d. 1860)
• July 5
  • Mads Lauritz Madsen, Norwegian politician (d. 1840)
  • Arabella Menage, British actress and dancer (d. 1817)
  • Rosa Morandi, Italian soprano (d. 1824)
• July 6
  • Luis Brión, Venezuelan military officer (d. 1821)
  • Henri Antoine Jacques, French botanist (d. 1866)
  • Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca, Spanish Royal (d. 1824)
• July 7
  • John Myers Felder, American politician (d. 1851)
  • Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro, British lawyer, judge and politician (d. 1858)
• July 9
  • Tomaso Catullo, Italian noblemen, geologist, paleontologist and zoologist (d. 1869)
  • Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé, French painter and writer (d. 1859)
• July 10 – Moses Elias Levy, Jewish-American businessman and reformer (d. 1854)
• July 12 – Étienne Marc Quatremère, French orientalist (d. 1857)
• July 13
  • Thomas William Taylor, British Army officer (d. 1854)
  • Charlotte White, American missionary (d. 1863)
• July 14
  • Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este, Austrian archduke (d. 1863)
  • Jesse Elliott, United States Navy officer (d. 1845)
• July 16
  • Sophie Ørsted, Danish muse (d. 1818)
  • Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener, German banker and patron of the arts (d. 1861)
• July 17 – James Cockle, British surgeon (d. 1854)
• July 18 – Mariano Enrique Calvo, president and vice president of Bolivia (d. 1842)
• July 19
  • Jonathan Blewitt, English composer (d. 1853)
  • Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington, Irish Earl (d. 1829)
  • Iinuma Yokusai, Japanese botanist and physician (d. 1865)
• July 23 – Johann Heinrich Rosenplänter, Baltic German parish priest and linguist (d. 1846)
• July 24
  • John Fox Burgoyne, British Army officer (d. 1871)
  • William Temple Thomson Mason, American businessman (d. 1862)
• July 25
  • Mariano Boedo, Argentine politician (d. 1819)
  • Lincoln Goodale, American doctor (d. 1868)
  • Michael Rohde, German botanist (d. 1812)
  • Sir David Scott, 2nd Baronet, Member of the United Kingdom Parliament (d. 1851)
• July 26 – John Field, Irish pianist, composer and teacher (d. 1837)
• July 27 – Basilio Puoti, Italian lexicographer and literary critic (d. 1847)
• July 28
  • Aristaces Azaria, Armenian Catholic abbot and archbishop (d. 1855)
  • Thomas Burnside, American politician (d. 1851)
• July 29
  • François Liénard de la Mivoye, French zoologist and botanist (d. 1862)
  • Jesse Wharton, American politician (d. 1833)
• July 31 – Oliver H. Prince, American politician (d. 1837)
• August 1
  • Johann Casimir Benicken, German jurist and judge (d. 1838)
  • Eugène de Mazenod, French bishop and saint (d. 1861)
• August 2 – Johannes van Hooydonk, Dutch Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop (d. 1868)
• August 4 – John Kerr, member of the US House of Representatives (d. 1842)
• August 6 – William Spencer, American judge and politician (d. 1871)
• August 10
  • Vicente Guerrero, 2nd President of Mexico (d. 1831)
  • Matsudaira Muneakira, Japanese daimyo (d. 1840)
  • Charles James Napier, Governor of Sindh, Commander-in-Chief in British India (d. 1853)
• August 12 – Ole Johansen Winstrup, Danish engineer and inventor (d. 1867)
• August 13 – Conrad Ten Eyck, American politician (d. 1847)
• August 15
  • Carlo Brioschi, Italian astronomer (d. 1833)
  • James Smith of Jordanhill, Scottish merchant, geologist and biblical critic (d. 1867)
  • Charles Lowell, United States Unitarian minister (d. 1861)
  • Henri de Merode, member of the Belgian Senate and writer (d. 1847)
  • Faustin Soulouque, President and emperor of Haiti (d. 1867)
• August 16 – Elderkin Potter, American politician and lawyer (d. 1845)
• August 17
  • Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri, French stage designer (d. 1868)
  • Pavel Martynov, Russian Lieutenant General (d. 1838)
• August 18
  • Jean-Louis Boisselot, French composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1847)
  • Marcellin Marbot, French general (d. 1854)
• August 20
  • Nicolas-Philibert Adelon, French physician (d. 1862)
  • Charles Fraser, American painter (d. 1860)
  • Juliana de Almeida e Oyenhausen, Russian noble (d. 1864)
• August 23 – David Hudson, American politician (d. 1860)
• August 25
  • Charles Comte, French lawyer, journalist and political writer (d. 1837)
  • Joseph Heinrich Gügler, Swiss theologian (d. 1827)
  • Prince Carl Gustav, Duke of Småland, Swedish prince (d. 1783)
  • Sylvester Pattie, American frontiersman (d. 1828)
• August 28
  • Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout, French politician (d. 1858)
  • John Wray, barrister and the first Receiver of the London Metropolitan Police (d. 1869)
• August 29
  • John Bowman, American lawyer, banker and politician from New York (d. 1853)
  • Louis Antoine François de Marchangy, French advocate general, poet and politician (d. 1826)
  • John Augustine Smith, President of the College of William & Mary (d. 1865)
• August 30 – Christian of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken, Bavarian general (d. 1859)
• August 31
  • Joseph H. Crane, American politician (d. 1851)
  • Edward Russell, American politician (d. 1835)
• September 1
  • Frances Alsop, English actor (d. 1816)
  • Thomas Reade, English army officer and consul in Tunis (d. 1849)
• September 2 – Myndert Van Schaick, American politician (d. 1865)
• September 3
  • Benedict Joseph Fenwick, American Catholic bishop (d. 1846)
  • Christian Ludwig Nitzsch, German zoologist and botanist (d. 1837)
• September 5
  • Charles Malcolm, British Royal Navy officer (d. 1851)
  • Maeda Narinaga, Japanese samurai and daimyo (d. 1824)
• September 6 – Doxachi Hurmuzachi, ethnic Romanian boyar from the Duchy of Bukovina (d. 1857)
• September 7
  • Princess Marie of Baden, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel & Brunswick-Oels (d. 1808)
  • Clark Bissell, American judge and politician (d. 1857)
  • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, Scottish novelist (d. 1854)
  • Crown Prince Munhyo, Crown prince of the Kingdom of Korea (d. 1786)
• September 8
  • Johan Gørbitz, Norwegian painter (d. 1853)
  • Mariano Montilla, Venezuelan politician (d. 1851)
• September 9
  • Andreas Andersen Feldborg, Danish writer (d. 1838)
  • Charles-François Painchaud, Quebec priest (d. 1838)
• September 10 – John Ketcham, American politician (d. 1865)
• September 11
  • Fisher A. Blocksom, American politician and lawyer from Ohio (d. 1876)
  • Daniel Gaskell, British politician (d. 1875)
• September 13 – William Wood, Scottish surgeon (d. 1858)
• September 14 – Christian Magnus Falsen, jurist, father of the Constitution of Norway and member of Stortinget (d. 1830)
• September 16
  • Daoguang Emperor, Qing-dynasty Chinese emperor (d. 1850)
  • Hans Nilsen Gubberud, Norwegian politician (d. 1835)
• September 17 – Christoph Hawich, German lithographer and painter (d. 1848)
• September 18 – José Tomás Boves, Spanish general (d. 1815)
• September 19
  • Karl von Fischer, German architect (d. 1820)
  • Vicente Genaro de Quesada, Spanish general (d. 1836)
  • Robert Sale, British Army general (d. 1845)
  • John Wroe, British evangelist (d. 1863)
• September 20
  • Richard Dunning, 2nd Baron Ashburton, British noble (d. 1823)
  • Edward John Eliot, English cavalry officer (d. 1863)
• September 22
  • Pierre-Dominique Debartzch, Canadian politician (d. 1846)
  • Fredric Westin, Swedish painter (d. 1862)
• September 23
  • Jacques Féréol Mazas, French musician (d. 1849)
  • Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, German explorer, ethnologist and naturalist (d. 1867)
• September 24 – William Symonds, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1856)
• September 25
  • Charles Maturin, Irish writer (d. 1824)
  • Stephen Price, theatre manager from New York City (d. 1840)
• September 27 – Thomas M. Nelson, American politician (d. 1853)
• September 28 – George Smith, English architect and surveyor (d. 1869)
• September 29 – Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, British politician (d. 1850)
• October 3
  • Charles Jared Ingersoll, American politician and writer (d. 1862)
  • David Johnson, Governor of South Carolina (d. 1855)
  • Richard Peek, English philanthropist (d. 1867)
• October 4 – James Wadmore, English art collector (d. 1853)
• October 6
  • Isidro Barrada, Spanish military personnel (d. 1835)
  • James Gordon, British Royal Navy officer (d. 1869)
• October 7
  • John Duer, American jurist (d. 1852)
  • Charles Maclaren, Scottish journalist and geologist (d. 1866)
  • James Lucas Yeo, British naval commander (d. 1818)
• October 8 – Robert Lucas Chance, British glass maker (d. 1865)
• October 9
  • Lewis Cass, American military officer, politician, statesman (d. 1866)
  • Tilly Lynde, American politician (d. 1857)
  • William Holland Wilmer, American episcopal priest (d. 1827)
• October 11
  • Steen Steensen Blicher, Danish writer (d. 1848)
  • Christian Heinrich Bünger, German anatomist and surgeon (d. 1842)
  • Georg Andreas von Rosen, Russian army general (d. 1841)
  • Pierre-Antoine Tabeau, Canadian missionary (d. 1835)
• October 12
  • Henry Dodge, American politician and general (d. 1867)
  • Jared Groce, American planter, slaveowner and settler (d. 1836)
• October 13 – Joseph Nigg, Austrian artist (d. 1863)
• October 14 – James Gilmour, Canadian businessman (d. 1858)
• October 15 – James Elmes, English writer and architect (d. 1862)
• October 16
  • Alois Pichl, Austrian architect (d. 1856)
  • Hamelin Trelawny, British politician (d. 1856)
• October 18
  • Joseph M. Street, Iowa pioneer, trader and US Indian Agent (d. 1840)
  • Karl Friedrich Eusebius Trahndorff, German philosopher (d. 1863)
• October 19 – J. T. Wedgwood, British engraver (d. 1856)
• October 20 – Christian Blom, Norwegian composer (d. 1861)
• October 24 – William Norton Shinn, American politician (d. 1871)
• October 25
  • Iosif Ivanovich Charlemagne, Russian architect (d. 1861)
  • Levi Lincoln Jr., Massachusetts Governor and Congressman (d. 1868)
  • Sir William Verner, 1st Baronet, British politician (d. 1871)
• October 26
  • Carlo Tancredi Falletti di Barolo, Italian politician and mayor (d. 1838)
  • Charles Goodall, English cricketer (d. 1872)
• October 27 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
• October 28 – Henry Meigs, American politician (d. 1861)
• October 30 – Lorenzo Maria of Saint Francis Xavier, Italian saint (d. 1856)
• November 1
  • Joseph von Blumenthal, Austrian musician (d. 1850)
  • F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1859)
  • Adam Ditlev Wedell-Wedellsborg, Dano-Norwegian government official (d. 1827)
• November 2 – Eustoquio Díaz Vélez, Spanish-Argentine general (d. 1856)
• November 3 – Lewis Warrington, United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1851)
• November 4
  • John Branch, American politician (d. 1863)
  • Nanbu Toshitaka, Japanese samurai, 10th daimyō of Morioka Domain, northern Japan (d. 1820)
• November 6 – Maha Bandula, Burmese general (d. 1825)
• November 7
  • Friedrich Karl Gustav, Baron von Langenau, Austrian field marshal (d. 1840)
  • Edward Hawker, Royal Navy officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars (d. 1860)
  • John Pye, English landscape engraver (d. 1874)
• November 11
  • Francis Blackburne, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (d. 1867)
  • Nathan Dunn, American collector (d. 1844)
  • Elihu Embree, American abolitionist and newspaper editor (d. 1820)
• November 12
  • William Hendricks, American politician (d. 1850)
  • Granville Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort, British naval commander and Whig politician (d. 1868)
  • James Wedderburn, Solicitor General for Scotland (d. 1822)
• November 13
  • Sir Alexander Grant, 8th Baronet, British politician (d. 1854)
  • Joseph Kornhäusel, Austrian architect (d. 1860)
  • Esaias Tegnér, Swedish poet, professor and bishop (d. 1846)
• November 16
  • Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto, British politician (d. 1859)
  • Thomas Whitmore, English politician (d. 1846)
• November 17 – Conrad Graf, German piano maker (d. 1851)
• November 19 – John McCarty, American politician (d. 1851)
• November 20
  • Alexander Macdonell of Greenfield, Canadian politician and businessman (d. 1835)
  • Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, painter from the Northern Netherlands (d. 1861)
• November 21 – William Tippet, Anglo-Indian Judge and Magistrate (d. 1824)
• November 22
  • Richard Bagot, Bishop of Oxford, Dean of Canterbury (d. 1854)
  • Sophie Swetchine, Russian salon-holder (d. 1857)
• November 25
  • George Tillson, American industrialist (d. 1864)
  • Thomas Contee Worthington, American politician (d. 1847)
• November 26
  • Karl Johann Bernhard Karsten, German mineralogist (d. 1853)
  • Johan Christopher Ræder, Norwegian politician (d. 1853)
• November 28 – John R. Drake, American politician (d. 1857)
• November 29 – Henry Walton Ellis, British Army officer (d. 1815)
• November 30 – Giuseppe Moretti, Italian botanist (d. 1853)
• December 2 – Gerard Thomas Noel, British cleric (d. 1851)
• December 3
  • John E. Coffee, American politician (d. 1836)
  • Henry William Pickersgill, British artist (d. 1875)
• December 5
  • Martin Van Buren, 8th president of the United States (d. 1862)
  • Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet, British politician (d. 1849)
• December 7
  • James Earickson, American politician (d. 1844)
  • Nicolaus Michael Oppel, German naturalist (d. 1820)
  • Joseph Trumbull, American politician and lawyer (d. 1861)
• December 9 – Waleria Tarnowska, Polish painter and art collector (d. 1849)
• December 10
  • Thomas William Brotherton, British general (d. 1868)
  • Charles Nicolas Fabvier, French military personnel, politician and diplomat (d. 1855)
  • Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl, German philosopher, educationist, musicologist and musician (d. 1849)
• December 11
  • George Barnes, English archdeacon (d. 1847)
  • Johann Friedrich Müller, German copperplate engraver (d. 1816)
• December 12 – Marie-Victoire Baudry, Canadian superior general (d. 1846)
• December 13 – John Clitherow, British Army general (d. 1852)
• December 16
  • Hans Jakob Oeri, Swiss painter (d. 1868)
  • Louis-Barthélémy Pradher, French composer, pianist and music educator (d. 1843)
  • Diego Bautista Urbaneja, Venezuelan politician (d. 1856)
• December 17 – James Fullarton, Scottish soldier who fought in the Kandyan Wars (d. 1834)
• December 19 – Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, Czech botanist, surgeon, doctor and mycologist (d. 1843)
• December 21
  • Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier, French composer (d. 1838)
  • Randolph Isham Routh, British commissariat officer (d. 1858)
• December 22 – Jean Bélanger, Canadian politician (d. 1827)
• December 23
  • William Armstrong, American lawyer, civil servant, politician, businessperson (d. 1865)^{[130][131][132]}
  • Johann Anton Weinmann, German botanist (d. 1858)
• December 24
  • Therese Brunetti, Austrian actress (d. 1864)
  • Charles Hubert Millevoye, poet from France (d. 1816)
• December 25
  • Victory Birdseye, American politician (d. 1853)
  • Nathaniel Fish Moore, American university administrator (d. 1872)
• December 26 – Philaret Drozdov, Russian bishop (d. 1867)
• December 27
  • Samuel Hood, Anglican Dean of Argyll and The Isles (d. 1872)
  • Henry Vail, American politician (d. 1853)
• December 28
  • Joseph Arnold, English naval surgeon and naturalist (d. 1818)
  • Matthias Joseph de Noël, German writer and art collector (d. 1849)
  • Cajetan von Textor, German physician (d. 1860)
• December 29
  • François-Joseph Grille, French librarian (d. 1853)
  • William Lloyd, British army officer (d. 1857)
  • Benjamin Woodworth, American politician (d. 1874)
• December 30
  • John Freeman Milward Dovaston, British poet and naturalist (d. 1854)
  • Jonas Anton Hielm, Norwegian politician (d. 1848)
• December 31
  • Konstantin Bulgakov, Russian diplomat and postal director (d. 1835)
  • Jean-Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup, French naturalist (d. 1861)

1783

• January 20 – Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist, composer (d. 1860)
• January 23 – Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
• February 8 – Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont, French general, governor-general of French Algeria (d. 1837)
• February 16 – Stephen Cassin, United States Navy officer (d. 1857)
• March 8 – Hannah Van Buren, née Hoes, American wife of Martin Van Buren (d. 1819)

Washington Irving

• April 3 – Washington Irving, American author (d. 1859)^[133]
• April 21 – Reginald Heber, English priest (d. 1821)^[134]
• May 1 – Vicente Rocafuerte, Ecuadorian politician, 2nd President of Ecuador (d. 1847)
• May 3 – José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (d. 1858)
• May 25 – Philip P. Barbour, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1841)

John Crawfurd

• May 27 – John Crawfurd, Scottish physician, colonial administrator, diplomat and author. Last British Resident of Singapore (d. 1868)
• May 29 – Benedetto Pistrucci, Italian engraver and medalist (d. 1855)
• June 19 – Friedrich Sertürner, German pharmacist who discovered morphine in 1804 (d. 1841)
• June 21 – Theodosia Burr, First Lady of South Carolina during War of 1812, daughter of Aaron Burr (d. 1813)

Simón Bolívar

• July 24 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan patriot, revolutionary leader and statesman (d. 1830)
• July 28 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, German army officer and writer (d. 1860)
• August 7 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, member of the British Royal Family (d. 1810)
• August 26 – Federigo Zuccari, astronomer, director of the Astronomical Observatory of Naples (d. 1817)
• September 17
  • Samuel Prout, English painter (d. 1852)^[135]
  • Nadezhda Durova, first female Russian army officer (d. 1866)
• October 31 – Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner, German chemist (d. 1857)
• Date unknown:
  • The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal, sufferer from the rare condition Craniopagus parasiticus (d. 1787)
  • Mary Anne Whitby, English scientist (d. 1850)

1784

• January 17 – Philippe Antoine d’Ornano, Marshal of France (d. 1863)

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen

• January 28 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
• February 5 – Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
• February 20 – John E. Wool, general officer in the United States Army, who served during the War of 1812, Mexican–American War, and the American Civil War (d. 1869)
• February 29 – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (d. 1864)
• March 12 – William Buckland, English geologist, paleontologist (d. 1856)
• March 22 – Samuel Hunter Christie, English physicist, mathematician (d. 1865)
• March 23 – Tom Molineaux, African-American boxer (d. 1818)

Jonathan Jennings

• March 27 – Jonathan Jennings, American politician and the first governor of Indiana (d. 1834)
• April 5 – Louis Spohr, German violinist, composer (d. 1859)
• April 13 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
• April 24 – Peter Vivian Daniel, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1860)
• June 24 – Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan military, political figure (d. 1853)
• July 21 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (d. 1854)
• July 22 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician, astronomer (d. 1846)
• July 27 – Denis Davydov, Russian general, poet (d. 1839)
• August 18 – Robert Taylor, British Radical writer, freethought advocate (d. 1844)
• September 4 – William Pope Duval, first civilian governor of the Florida Territory (d. 1854)
• October 13 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)
• October 15 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (d. 1849)
• October 19
  • Leigh Hunt, British critic, essayist (d. 1859)
  • John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader (d. 1857)

Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

• October 20 – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865)
• October – Sarah Biffen, armless English painter (d. 1850)
• November 24 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
• November 27 – August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (d. 1853)

1785

Jacob Grimm

John James Audubon

Oliver Hazard Perry

• January 4
  • Jacob Grimm, German philologist, folklorist, and writer (d. 1863)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (d. 1831)
• January 15 – William Prout English chemist, physician, and natural theologian (d. 1850)
• January 20 – Theodor Grotthuss, German-Lithuanian chemist (d. 1822)
• February 8 – Martín Miguel de Güemes Argentine military leader (d. 1821)
• February 10 – Claude-Louis Navier, French engineer, physicist (d. 1836)
• February 26 – Anna Sundström, Swedish chemist (d. 1871)
• March 11
  • John McLean, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1861)
  • Eleonore Prochaska, German heroine soldier (d. 1805)
• March 17 – Ellen Hutchins, Irish botanist (d. 1815)
• March 27 – Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
• April 4 – Bettina von Arnim, German poet (d. 1859)
• April 26 – John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, illustrator (d. 1851)
• April 29 – Karl Drais, German inventor, creator of a precursor to the bicycle (d. 1851)
• May 18 – John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854)
• May 20 – Marcellin Champagnat, French Catholic saint (d. 1840)
• May 22 – John Hindmarsh, English naval officer, first Governor of South Australia (d. 1860)
• July 6 – William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865)
• July 20 – Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1839)
• August 15 – Thomas de Quincey, English writer (d. 1859)
• August 23 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819)
• August 27 – Agustín Gamarra, Peruvian general and politician, 10th and 14th President of Peru (d. 1841)
• September 27 – David Walker, African-American abolitionist (d. 1830)
• October 15 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general, founding father (d. 1821)
• October 17 – Gunatitanand Swami, born Mulji Sharma, Indian paramahamsa of the Hindu Swaminarayan Sampraday sect (d. 1867)
• October 18 – Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (d. 1866)
• October 20 – George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873)
• November 11 – Diponegoro, Javanese Prince (d. 1855)
• November 18 – David Wilkie, Scottish painter (d. 1841)
• November 21 – William Beaumont, American physician and surgeon (d. 1853)
• November 28 – Victor de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (d. 1870)
• December 17 – Dorothea Lieven, Latvian diplomat, politically active princess (d. 1857)
• December 23 – Christian Gobrecht, American engraver, designer of the United States Seated Liberty coinage (d. 1844)
• December 26 – Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, 1st Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1871)

1786

• January 7 – John Catron, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1865)
• January 8 – Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (d. 1844)
• January 11 – Joseph Jackson Lister, English opticist, physician (d. 1869)
• January 12 – Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855)
• January 23 – Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)

Maria Pavlovna of Russia

• February 16 – Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach (d. 1859)
• February 26 – François Arago, French astronomer, physicist and politician (d. 1853)
• February 24 – Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1859)
• March 4 – Agustina de Aragón, Spanish heroine (d. 1857)
• March 22 – Joachim Lelewel, Polish historian (d. 1861)
• March 25 – Giovanni Battista Amici, Italian astronomer, microscopist and botanist (d. 1863)
• April 16 – John Franklin, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1847)
• April 28 – Elizabeth Andrew Warren, Cornish botanist, marine algolologist (d. 1864)
• May 29 – Alexander Bryan Johnson, American philosopher (d. 1867)
• June 13 – Winfield Scott, American general, presidential candidate (d. 1866)
• June 26 – Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet (d. 1855)

Davy Crockett

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

• August 17
  • Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (d. 1836)
  • Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria (d. 1861)
• August 25 – King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
• August 31 – Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (d. 1889)
• September 10 – Nicolás Bravo, 3-time President of Mexico (d. 1854)
• September 11 – Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (d. 1832)
• September 18
  • King Christian VIII of Denmark (d. 1848)
  • Justinus Kerner, German physician (d. 1862)
• September 24 – Charles Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur (d. 1875)
• September 29 – Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
• November 18
  • Henry Bishop, English composer (d. 1855)
  • Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826)
• December 12 – William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)

• Kim Jeong-hui, Korean epigrapher (d. 1856)
• probable – Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho (d. 1870)

1787

Joseph von Fraunhofer

• January 1 – Manuel José Arce, Revolutionary General and first President of The Federal Republic of Central America (d. 1847)
• February 10 – William Bradley, Britain's tallest man ever at 7 ft 9 in. (d. 1820)
• February 23 – Emma Willard, American educator (d. 1870)
• March 6 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician (d. 1826)
• March 9 – Josephine Kablick, Czech botanist, paleontologist (d. 1863)
• March 10 – Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1862)
• March 11 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian General (d. 1852)
• April 26 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862)^[136]
• May 25 – José María Bocanegra, 3rd President of Mexico (d. 1862)
• June 28 – Sir Harry Smith, English soldier, military commander (d. 1860)
• July 28 – Pedro Vélez, Mexican politician (d. 1848)
• August 21 – John Owen, 24th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1841)^[137]
• August 24 – James Weddell, British sailor known for discovering the Weddell Sea (d. 1834)
• September 5 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist, geologist (d. 1850)
• October 4, – François Guizot, Prime Minister of France (d. 1874)
• November 4 – Edmund Kean, English actor (d. 1833)
• November 7
  • Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (d. 1854)
  • Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Serbian linguist, major reformer of the Serbian language (d. 1864)

Louis Daguerre

• November 18 – Louis Daguerre, French artist, chemist (d. 1851)
• November 21 – Samuel Cunard, Canadian business, prominent Nova Scotian, founder of the Cunard Line (d. 1865)
• November 25 – Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian composer (d. 1863)
• December 10 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)
• December 11 – Macacha Güemes, Argentine heroine (d. 1866)
• December 16 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist (d. 1855)^[138]
• December 17 – Jan Evangelista Purkyne, Czech anatomist, botanist (d. 1869)

• Juana Galán, Spanish heroine (d. 1812)
• Shaka, Zulu king (d. 1828)

1788

• January 22 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (d. 1824)
• February 5 – Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
• February 10 – Johann Peter Pixis, German pianist, composer (d. 1874)
• February 12 – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist (d. 1869)

Arthur Schopenhauer

• February 22 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)

Joseph Eichendorff

• March 10 – Joseph von Eichendorff, German poet (d. 1857)
• April 2
  • Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (d. 1862)
  • Wilhelmine Reichard, first German woman balloonist (d. 1848)
• April 14 – David G. Burnet, President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
• April 18 – Charlotte Murchison, Scottish geologist (d. 1869)

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

• May 10 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French engineer, physicist and inventor (d. 1827)
• May 16 – Friedrich Rückert, German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages (d. 1866)
• May 22 – William Grant Broughton, first Anglican bishop in Australia (d. 1853)
• June 8 – Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1869)
• June 21 – Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (d. 1851)
• July 30 – Kisamor, Swedish natural healer (d. 1842)
• August 2 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
• August 6 – Felix Slade, English lawyer, philanthropist and art collector (d. 1868)
• August 7 – Francis R. Shunk, American politician (d. 1848)
• August 16 – Luigi Ciacchi, Italian cardinal (d. 1865)
• September 12 – Alexander Campbell, Irish-born founder of the Disciples of Christ (d. 1866)
• September 15 – Gerard C. Brandon, American politician (d. 1850)
• September 12 – Charlotte von Siebold, German gynecologist (d. 1859)
• September 21
  • Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, Dutch citizen, first validated supercentenarian (d. 1899)
  • Margaret Taylor, First Lady of the United States (d. 1852)
• September 22
  • Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)
  • Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, Arab-French memoir writer and servant to Napoleon I (d. 1856)
• September 28 – Jakob Walter, German stonemason, soldier (d. 1864)
• October 9 – József Kossics, Hungarian-Slovene Catholic priest, writer, ethnologist (d. 1867)
• October 11 – Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d. 1867)
• October 24 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American author (d. 1879)
• October 31 – David R. Porter, American politician (d. 1867)
• November 8 – Mihály Bertalanits, Hungarian Slovene (Prekmurje Slovene) poet, teacher (d. 1853)
• Date unknown
  • Facundo Quiroga, Argentine federationalist (d. 1835)
  • Ana Joaquina dos Santos e Silva, African businesswoman (d. 1859)

1789

René Edward De Russy

Georg Ohm

Catharine Sedgwick

• January 3 – Carl Gustav Carus, German physiologist (d. 1869)
• 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, statesman (d. 1865)
• February 15 – Martin Chester Deming, American businessman and politician (d. 1851)^[139]
• 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)
• April 15 – Diego Noboa, 4th President of Ecuador (d. 1870)
• April 22 – Manuel Gómez Pedraza, 6th President of Mexico (d. 1851)
• May 1 – George Fife Angas, English coachbuilder, businessman, and politician; founder of South Australia (d. 1879)
• May 24 – Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress
• June 8 – Queen Sunwon, Korean regent (d. 1857)
• June 30 – Horace Vernet, French painter (d. 1863)
• July 19 – John Martin, English painter (d. 1854)
• July 21 – Vasil Aprilov, Bulgarian educator, merchant and writer (d. 1847)^[140]
• August 6 – Friedrich List, German journalist (d. 1846)
• August 21 – Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)
• August 28 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860)
• September 3 – Hannah Flagg Gould, American poet (d. 1865)
• September 4 – Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré, French botanist (d. 1854)
• September 15 – James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (d. 1851)
• September 28 – Richard Bright, English physician, "Father of Nephrology" (d. 1858)
• October 8 – William Swainson, English naturalist, artist (d. 1855)
• November 5 – William Bland, Australian politician (d. 1868)
• December 14 – Maria Szymanowska, Polish composer (d. 1831)
• December 15
  • Edward B. Dudley, North Carolina governor (d. 1855)
  • Carlos Soublette, two-time President of Venezuela (d. 1870)
• December 22 – Levi Woodbury, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1851)
• December 25 – Elizabeth Jesser Reid, English social reformer, founder of Bedford College (d. 1866)
• December 28 – Catharine Sedgwick, American writer (d. 1867)

Deaths

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1780

Thomas Hutchinson

William Blackstone

Empress Maria Theresa of Austria

• January 13 – Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Prussian princess (b. 1722)
• January 15 – Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli, Swiss agronomist (b. 1716)
• February 10 – Samuel Egerton, British Member of Parliament (b. 1711)
• February 14 – William Blackstone, English jurist (b. 1723)
• February 17 – Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian, librarian (b. 1706)
• February 18 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1714)
• March 17 – Elizabeth Butchill, English woman executed for the murder of her newborn child (b. c. 1758)
• March 26 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. 1713)
• April 5 – Ulrika Strömfelt, Swedish courtier (b. 1724)
• May 18 – Charles Hardy, British governor of Newfoundland (b. c. 1714)
• May 21 – Thomas Townshend (MP), British politician (b. 1701)
• June 3 – Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
• July 4 – Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (b. 1712)
• July 14 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b. 1713)
• July 18 – Gerhard Schøning, Norwegian historian (b. 1722)
• July 21 – Louis Legrand, French Sulpician priest and theologian (b. 1711)
• August 3 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (b. 1715)
• August 19 – Johann de Kalb, Bavarian-French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (b. 1721)
• August 29 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
• September 4 – John Fielding, English magistrate, social reformer (b. 1721)
• September 6 – Françoise Basseporte, French painter (b. 1701)
• September 8
  • Enoch Poor, American Revolutionary general (b. 1736)
  • Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, French writer (b. 1711)
• September 15 – Jacob Rodrigues Pereira, academic, first teacher of deaf-mutes in France (b. 1715)
• September 19 – James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury, England (b. 1713)
• September 23 – Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, French salon holder (b. 1697)
• October 2 – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (executed) (b. 1750)
• October 17 – William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
• November 26 – Sir James Steuart, Scottish economist (b. 1712)^[141]
• November 29 – Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (b. 1717)^[142]
• December 12 – Jakab Fellner, Hungarian architect (b. 1722)
• December 26 – John Fothergill, English physician (b. 1712)
• date unknown – Thomas Dilworth, British cleric and writer

1781

• January 12 – Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (b. 1691)
• January 15 – Mariana Victoria of Spain, Queen consort of Portugal (b. 1718)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

• February 15 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author, philosopher (b. 1729)^[143]
• February 23 – George Taylor, Founding Father of the United States and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. c. 1716)
• March 17 – Johannes Ewald, Danish national dramatist and poet (b. 1743)^[144]
• March 18 – Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727)
• April 23 – James Abercrombie, British general (b. 1706)
• April 28 – Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
• May 3 – Charles Roe, English businessman (b. 1715)
• May 16 – Giacomo Puccini (senior), Italian composer (b. 1712)

Túpac Amaru II

• May 18 – Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian indigenous rebel leader (b. 1742)
• May 18 – Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua, Peruvian indigenous rebel leader (b. 1745)
• May 27 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (b. 1716)
• May 30 – John Conder, Independent English minister at Cambridge (b. 1714)
• July 18 – Padre Francisco Garcés, Spanish missionary (killed) (b. 1738)
• July 23 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
• August 16 – Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719)
• September 7 – Lord Richard Cavendish (1752–1781), second son of William Cavendish (b. 1752)
• September 11 – Johann August Ernesti, German theologian and philologist (b. 1707)^[145]
• September 12 – Peter Scheemakers, Flemish sculptor (b. 1691)
• September 28 – William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat, statesman (b. 1717)
• October 16 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
• November 4
  • Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721)^[146]
  • Charles Morris, Canadian judge (b. 1711)
• November 21 – Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, French statesman (b. 1701)
• December 2 – Zenón de Somodevilla, 1st Marqués de la Ensenada, Spanish noble (b. 1702)
• December 30 – John Needham, British biologist and priest (b. 1713)
• December – Juan Montón y Mallén, composer (b. c. 1730)^[147]
• Samuel Conrad Schwach, Norwegian newspaper publisher (b. c. 1731)^[148]

1782

William Crawford

Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham

Hyder Ali

• January 2 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
• January 4 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (b. 1698)
• January 18 – John Pringle, Scottish physician (b. 1707)
• January 28 — Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer and cartographer (b. 1697)
• January 30 – Vasily Dolgorukov-Krymsky, Russian general (b. 1722)
• February 9 – Giuseppe Luigi Assemani, Syrian orientalist (b. 1710)
• February 10 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
• March 1 – John A. Treutlen, Governor of Georgia (b. 1734)
• March 2 – Sophie of France, French princess (b.1734)
• March 9 – Sava II Petrović-Njegoš, Metropolitan of Cetinje (b. 1702)
• March 17 – Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematical physicist (b. 1700)
• April 7 – Taksin the Great, King of Siam (Thonburi Kingdom) (b. 1734)
• April 13 – Metastasio, Italian poet, librettist (b. 1698)
• April 17 – Baal Shem of London, British Kabbalist (b. 1708)
• April 22 – Josef Seger, Czech composer and organist (b. 1716)
• April 28 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710)
• May 8 – Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese statesman (b. 1699)
• May 15 – Richard Wilson, British painter (b. 1714)
• May 16 – Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
• May 20 – William Emerson, English mathematician (b. 1701)
• May 20 – Axel Lagerbielke, Swedish admiral and statesman (b. 1703)
• May 22 – Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1752)
• June 11 – William Crawford, American soldier and surveyor (burned at the stake by Native Americans) (b. 1732)
• June 18 – John Wood, the Younger, English architect (b. 1728)
• June 21 – Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, German prince (b. 1722)
• July 1 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British statesman, 2-time Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1730)^[20]
• July 15 – Farinelli, Italian castrato (b. 1705)
• August 27 – John Laurens, American soldier (b. 1754)
• August 31 – George Croghan, American colonist (b. c. 1718)
• September 5 – Bartolina Sisa, Bolivian indigenous Aymara heroine, rebel leader (b. c. 1750)
• September 6
  • Gregoria Apaza, Bolivian indigenous leader (b. 1751)
  • Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
• September 14 – Nicholas Cooke, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1717)
• October 2 – Charles Lee, Continental Army general during the American War of Independence (b. 1732)
• November 5 – James Burrow, British scholar (b. 1701)
• November 21 – Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (b. 1709)
• December 7 – Hyder Ali, Indian general, Sultan of Mysore (b. 1720)
• December 11–William Beadle, Anglo-American merchant (b. 1730)
• December 16 – William Cole (antiquary), British antiquarian (b. 1714)
• December 27 – Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish advocate and philosopher (b. 1697)
• date unknown
  • Christine Kirch, German astronomer (b. 1696)
  • Sabina Aufenwerth, German potter (b. 1706)
  • Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Swedish botanist (b. 1743)

1783

• January 2 – Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss author (b. 1698)
• January 7 – William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1706)
• January 15 – William Alexander, Lord Stirling, American major-general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (b. 1726)
• January 18 – Jeanne Quinault, French actress, playwright (b. 1699)

Capability Brown

• February 6 – Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
• February 10 – James Nares, English composer of mostly sacred vocal works (b. 1715)
• March 2 – Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor (b. 1707)
• March 19 – Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1713)
• March 23 – Charles Carroll, American lawyer, delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
• March 26 – Anna Rosina de Gasc, German portrait painter (b. 1713)
• March 30 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
• March 31 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718)
• April 7 – Ignaz Holzbauer, German composer (b. 1711)
• April 16
  • Benedict Joseph Labre, French Catholic saint (b. 1745)
  • Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
• May 11 – Juliane Reichardt, German-born Bohemian pianist, singer and composer (b. 1752)
• May 23 – James Otis, American lawyer, patriot (b. 1725)
• June 2 – Charles Spalding, Scottish inventor and underwater diver, killed in diving bell accident (b. 1738)
• September 14 – James Grenville, British Member of Parliament (b. 1715)

Leonhard Euler

• September 18
  • Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, physicist (b. 1707)
  • Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman, Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
• September 28 – Marguerite Gourdan, French procurer (b. c. 1730)
• October 2 – Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown, Irish politician (b. 1701)
• October 29 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
• November 1 – Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Swedish naturalist (b. 1741)
• November 3 – Charles Collé, French dramatist (b. 1709)
• November 15 – John Hanson, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
• November 23 – Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)
• December 13 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717)
• December 15 – Ahmad bin Said al-Busaidi, first ruler of Oman of the Al Said dynasty (b. 1710)
• December 16
  • Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
  • William James, British naval commander (b. 1720)
• Date unknown:
  • Thomas Calcraft, English politician and Lieutenant-Colonel (b. 1738)^[149]
  • Adolf Friedrich von Reinhard, jurist and publicist (b. 1726)^[150]

1784

• February 4 – Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia, Prussian princess (b. 1714)
• February 27 – Count of St. Germain, French philosopher, adventurer (b. 1710)
• March 26 – Thomas Bond, American physician and surgeon (b. 1712)
• March 27 – Ralph Bigland, British officer of arms (b. 1712)
• March 31 – Thomas Adam, English clergyman, religious writer (b. 1701)
• April 26 – Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
• April 29 – Agustín de Jáuregui, Spanish colonial governor (b. 1711)
• May 3 – Anthony Benezet, French-born American abolitionist and educator (b. 1713)
• May 10 – Antoine Court de Gébelin, French pastor (b. 1725)
• May 12 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
• June 8 – Lukrecija Bogašinović Budmani, Croatian poet (b. 1710)
• June 11 – Lê Quý Đôn, Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (b. 1726)
• June 13 – Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
• June 14 – Andrzej Mokronowski, Polish general (b. 1713)
• June 26 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1728)
• July 1 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)^[151]

Denis Diderot

• July 31 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher, encyclopedist (b. 1713)
• August 4 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (b. 1706)
• August 10 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish portrait-painter (b. 1713)
• August 14 – Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
• August 28 – Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary (b. 1713)
• September 1 – Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (b. 1703)
• September 4 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)
• September 8 – Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
• September 15 – Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, French painter (b. 1735)
• November 1 – Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, French polymath, author and poet (b. 1709)
• November 9 – George Baylor, officer in the American Continental Army (b. 1752)
• December 5 – Phillis Wheatley, first published African-American author (b. 1753)

Samuel Johnson

• December 13 – Samuel Johnson, English writer, lexicographer (b. 1709)
• December 25 – Yosa Buson, Japanese poet, painter (b. 1716)
• December 26 – Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743)
• date unknown – Raja Haji Fisabilillah, Buginese monarch of the Johor Sultanate, warrior, emperor, and government official
• date unknown – Abd al-Karim Kashmiri, Indo-Persian historian

1785

Baldassare Galuppi

• January 3 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)^[152]
• January 6 – Haym Salomon, Polish-Jewish American financier of the American Revolution (b. 1740)
• January 19 – Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar, critic (b. 1713)
• January 23 – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
• February 24 – Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet (b. 1722)
• February 26 – Barbara Erni, Liechtenstein confidence trickster (b. 1743)
• March 14 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian opera director (b. 1713)
• April 14 – William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
• April 26 – Johan Samuel Augustin, German-Danish astronomical writer, civil servant (b. 1715)
• May 8
  • Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
  • Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (b. 1701)
• June 2
  • Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
  • Gottfried August Homilius, German composer, cantor and organist (b. 1714)^[153]
• June 30 – James Oglethorpe, English general, founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
• July 5 – Anne Poulett, British politician (b. 1711)
• July 6 – Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg (b. 1711)
• July 9 – William Strahan, British politician (b. 1715)
• July 12 – Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais, French jurist on the so-called "Brittany affair" (b. 1701)
• July 13 – Stephen Hopkins, Founding Father of the United States (b. 1707)
• July 17 – Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, British duchess (b. 1715)
• August 17 – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
• August 26 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier, politician (b. 1716)
• August 28 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
• August 31 – Pietro Chiari, Italian playwright (b. 1712)
• September 19 – Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Queen consort of Sardinia (b. 1729)
• September 30 – Johann Jakob Moser, German jurist (b. 1701)
• October 4
  • David Brearley, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (b. 1703)
  • Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (b. 1736)
• November 13 – Joaquín Ibarra, Spanish printer (b. 1725)
• November 15 – César Gabriel de Choiseul, French officer (b. 1712)
• November 18 – Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier, writer (b. 1725)
• November 19 – Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
• November 20 – James Wright, Governor of Georgia (b. 1716)
• November 25 – Richard Glover, English poet (b. 1712)

Kitty Clive

• December 6 – Kitty Clive, English actress, playwright (b. 1711)^[154]
• December 29 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian author (b. 1742)
• date unknown
  • Faustina Pignatelli, Italian mathematician (b. 1705)

1786

• January 4 – Moses Mendelssohn, Jewish philosopher (b. 1729)
• January 7 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician, scientist (b. 1715)
• January 14 – Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
• January 26 – Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (b. 1699)
• February 25 – Thomas Wright, British astronomer (b. 1711)
• February 28 – John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)
• March 11 – Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1714)
• April 10 – John Byron, British naval officer (b. 1723)
• April 20 – John Goodricke, English astronomer (b. 1764)
• May 1 – Benjamin Waller, American politician (b. 1716)
• May 2 – Petronella Johanna de Timmerman, Dutch poet, scientist (b. 1723)
• May 15 – Eva Ekeblad, Swedish scientist and agronomist, first female member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (b. 1724)
• May 19 – John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712)

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

• May 21 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (b. 1742)
• May 22 – Carl Fredrik Mennander, Swedish bishop (b. 1712)
• May 25 – Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (b. 1717)
• June 17 – Adam Drummond, British politician (b. 1713)
• June 19 – Nathanael Greene, major general in the Continental Army, 3rd Quartermaster General (b. 1742)
• July 28 – Carlo Marchionni, Italian architect (b. 1702)

Frederick II of Prussia

• August 17 – King Frederick II of Prussia ("Frederick the Great") (b. 1712)
• August 27 – Carl Fredrik Scheffer, Swedish politician (b. 1715)
• September 5 – Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
• September 17 – Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1737)
• September 18 – Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Italian luthier (b. 1711)
• October 2 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (b. 1725)
• October 5 – Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, German botanist (b. 1714)
• October 17 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
• October 20 – Humphrey Sturt, British architect (b. 1725)
• October 31 – Princess Amelia of Great Britain, Second daughter of George II of Great Britain (b. 1711)^[155]
• November 30 – Bernardo de Gálvez, Spanish military leader who aided the United States in its quest for independence, in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1746)
• December 26 – Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic, dramatist (b. 1713)^[156]

1787

• January 1 – Arthur Middleton, American politician (b. 1742)
• January 4 – Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen, German prince (b. 1702)
• February 2 – Ignác Raab, Czech artist (b. 1715)
• February 5 – Hugh Farmer, British theologian (b. 1714)
• February 4 – Pompeo Batoni, Italian painter (b. 1708)

Roger Joseph Boscovich

• February 13
  • Rudjer Boscovich, Croatian scientist, diplomat (b. 1711)
  • Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman, diplomat (b. 1717)
• February 21 – Antonio Rodríguez de Hita, Spanish composer (b. 1722)
• February 28 – Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel, German princess (b. 1722)
• March 8 – Samuel Graves, British Royal Navy admiral (b. 1713)
• March 22 – Charles de Fitz-James, Marshal of France (b. 1712)
• April 2 – Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719)
• May 10 – William Watson, English physician, scientist (b. 1715)
• May 26 – Lord John Murray, British politician (b. 1711)
• May 28 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
• May 31 – Felix of Nicosia, Cypriot Catholic saint (b. 1715)
• June 10 – La Caramba (Maria Antonia Fernandez), Spanish flamenco singer and dancer (b. 1751)
• June 14 – Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun, German scientist (b. 1714)
• June 17 – José de Gálvez, Spanish politician (b. 1720)
• June 20 – Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (b. 1723)
• July 4 – Charles, Prince of Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715)
• July 25 – Arthur Devis, British artist (b. 1712)
• August 1 – Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptorist Order (b. 1696)
• August 7 – Francis Blackburne, English Anglican churchman, activist (b. 1705)
• August 13 – Marc Antoine René de Voyer, French noble (b. 1722)
• August 16 – John Ponsonby (politician), Irish politician (b. 1713)
• September 7 – Carlos Fitz-James Stuart, 4th Duke of Liria and Jérica, Spanish duke (b. 1752)
• October 7 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
• October 28 – Johann Karl August Musäus, German author and collector of folk tales (b. 1735)^[157]
• November 3 – Robert Lowth, English bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
• November 4 – Johan Daniel Berlin, Norwegian composer and organist (b. 1714)

Christoph Willibald Gluck

• November 15 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)
• December 11 – Robert de Lamanon, French botanist (b. 1752)
• date unknown
  • Maria Pellegrina Amoretti, Italian lawyer (b. 1756)
  • The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal, sufferer from the rare condition Craniopagus parasiticus (b. 1783)
  • Francis William Drake, British admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1724)

1788

• January 14 – François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
• January 31 – Charles Edward Stuart, claimant to the British throne (b. 1720)
• February 17 – Maurice Quentin de La Tour, French portrait painter (b. 1704)
• February 18 – John Whitehurst, English clockmaker, scientist (b. 1713)
• February 21 – Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723)
• February 28 – Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (b. 1725)
• March 2 – Salomon Gessner, Swiss painter and newspaper publisher (b. 1730)
• March 29 – Charles Wesley, English co-founder (with his brother, John Wesley) of the religious movement now known as Methodism (b. 1707)
• March 31 – Catharina Elisabet Grubb, Finnish industrialist (b. 1721)
• April 12 – Carlo Antonio Campioni, French-born composer (b. 1719)
• April 15 – Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (b. 1711)
• April 16 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707)
• May 8 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician, naturalist (b. 1723)
• May 11 – Dorothea Biehl, Danish writer (b. 1731)
• June 14 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)
• June 21 – Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher (b. 1730)
• July 3 – François Jacquier, French Franciscan mathematician, physicist (b. 1711)
• July 30 – Kajetan Sołtyk, Polish Catholic priest (b. 1715)

Thomas Gainsborough

• August 2 – Thomas Gainsborough, British painter (b. 1727)
• August 8 – Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, French soldier, diplomat and statesman (b. 1696)
• August 25 – Tanuma Okitsugu, Japanese government official (b. 1719)
• August 28 – Elizabeth Pierrepont, Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull, English noble (b. 1721)
• September 25 – Thomas Missing, English politician (b. 1710)
• October 13 – Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician, poet (b. 1709)
• October 15 – Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian Admiral (b. 1736)
• November 14 – Thomas Estcourt Cresswell, British politician (b. 1712)
• November 20 – Samuel Martin (Secretary to the Treasury), British politician (b. 1714)
• November 23 – Infante Gabriel of Spain (b. 1752)
• December 6 – Jonathan Shipley, English bishop, politician (b. 1714)
  • Nicole-Reine Lepaute, French astronomer (b. 1723)

Charles III of Spain

• December 14
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (b. 1714)
  • King Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)
• December 19 – Juan Bautista de Anza, Governor of the Spanish Province of New Mexico (b. 1736)
• December 22 – Percivall Pott, English surgeon (b. 1714)
• December 30 – Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian painter, elected to the Venetian Academy (b. 1702)
• Date unknown
  • Lucia Galeazzi Galvani, Italian scientist (b. 1743)
  • Martha Wray, English businesswoman and medical manufacturer (b. 1739)

1789

Frances Brooke

• January 1 – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b. 1716)
• January 4
  • Johan Jacob Bruun, Danish artist (b. 1715)
  • Thomas Nelson Jr., American signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Virginia (1781) (b. 1738)
• January 8 – Jack Broughton, English boxer (b. 1703)
• January 10 – James Mitchell Varnum, American brigadier general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman for Rhode Island (b. 1748)
• January 13 – Joseph Spencer, American major general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman for Connecticut (b. 1714)
• January 23 – Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724)
• January 25 – James Randolph Reid, American Continental Congressman for Connecticut (b. 1750)
• February 2 – Armand-Louis Couperin, French composer and keyboard player (b. 1727)
• February 12 – Ethan Allen, American major general of the Revolutionary War, Vermont statesman (b. 1738)
• February 19 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (b. 1738)
• March 23 – Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds, British politician (b. 1713)
• April 5 – William Vane, 2nd Viscount Vane of Ireland (b. 1714)

Petrus Camper

• April 7
  • Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725)
  • Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (b. 1722)
• April 13 – Joseph Spencer, American colonel of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman for New Hampshire (b. 1739)
• April 26 – Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b. 1721)
• May 5 – Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti, Italian literary critic (b. 1719)
• May 9
  • Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (b. 1715)
  • Anders Johan von Höpken, Swedish politician (b. 1712)
• May 15 – Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, French painter (b. 1714)
• May 25 – Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
• June 4 – Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, son of Louis XVI of France (tuberculosis) (b. 1781)
• June 6 – Charles Thomas, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort, German nobleman, head of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (b. 1714)
• June 15 – Marcus Fredrik Bang, Norwegian bishop (b. 1711)
• July 13 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)
• July 14 – Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b. 1721)
• July 15 – Jacques Duphly, French composer and harpsichordist (b. 1715)
• July 16 – Domenico Caracciolo, Italian politician (b. 1715)
• July 22 – Joseph Foullon de Doué, French politician (executed) (b. 1715)
• July 30 – Giovanna Bonanno, Italian poisoner, alleged witch (b. c. 1713)
• August 22 – Johann Heinrich Tischbein, German artist (b. 1722)
• September 4 – Paul Spooner, American lieutenant governor of Vermont (1782–1787) (b. 1746)

Silas Deane

• September 23
  • John Rogers, American Continental Congressman for Maryland (b. 1723)
  • Silas Deane, American Continental Congressman for Connecticut (b. 1737)
• October 9 – James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn (b. 1712)
• October 27 – John Cook, American farmer, President of Delaware (b. 1730)
• October 28 (bur.) – Mary Evans, Welsh sect leader (b. 1735)
• November 10 – Richard Caswell, American major general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman and Governor of North Carolina (1776–80, 1785–87) (b. 1729)
• November 17 – Samuel Holden Parsons, American major general of the Revolutionary War, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (b. 1737)
• November 26 – John Elwes, English miser and politician (b. 1714)
• December 3 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)
• December 10 – William Pierce, American member of the Georgia House of Representatives, Continental Congressman for Georgia (c. 1753)
• December 12 – John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713)
• December 23 – Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist, developer of signed French (b. 1712)