- May 10 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French soldier, author and composer (La Marseillaise), born in Lons-le-Saunier, France (d. 1836)
- May 10 Johann Peter Hebel, German writer (Allemannische Gedichte), born in Basel (d. 1826)
Alexandre de Beauharnais (1760-1794)
May 28 French politician, general of the revolution and first husband of Joséphine de Beauharnais, born in Fort-Royal, Martinique, France
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