- Jan 7 Joseph Bonaparte, French King of Naples and Spain, brother of Napoleon, born in Corte, Corsica (d. 1844)
- Jan 10 James Varicick, founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, born in Newburgh, New York (d. 1827)
- Jan 28 Frederick VI, King of Denmark (1808-39) and Norway (1808-1814), born in Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1839)
- Feb 12 Francis II, last Holy Roman emperor (1792-1806), Emperor of Austria (1804-35), born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy) (d. 1835)
- Feb 13 Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (d. 1835)
- Feb 15 Joseph Bernard Cannaert [Olim], Flemish lawyer, born in Ghent (d. 1848)
- Mar 12 Carolus Antonius Fodor [Carel Anton Fodor], Dutch pianist, conductor and prominent composer, born in Venlo, Netherlands (d. 1846)
- Mar 13 Charles Louis Willem Josef van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant, born in Haelen, Netherlands (d. 1841)
- Mar 21 Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (mathematical theory of heat conduction) and Egyptologist, born in Auxerre, France (d. 1830)
- Mar 30 Maria Reynolds, American mistress of Alexander Hamilton and part of America's 1st political sex scandal (Reynolds Pamphlet), born in New York City, Province of New York, British Empire (d. 1828)
- Apr 7 Karl Theodor Toeschi, Italian-German composer and violinist, born in Mannheim Electorate of the Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1843)
- Apr 19 Adrian Hardy Haworth, English entomologist and botanist, born in Hull, England (d. 1833)
- May 2 Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert, French dermatologist, born in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France (d. 1837)
- May 3 Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist, born in Laigh Corton, Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland (d. 1838)
- May 17 Caroline of Brunswick, Queen Consort of King George IV (1820-21), born in Brunswick, Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1821)
- May 17 Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general, born in London (d. 1854)
- May 20 Dolley Madison, American 4th First Lady of the United States (1809-17) as wife of President James Madison, born in Guildford County, North Carolina (d. 1849) [1]
- Jun 9 Samuel Slater, English-American industrialist who brought the textile industrial revolution to America, born in Belper, Derbyshire, England (d. 1836)
- Jun 30 Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, First Lady of the United States (1817-25) as the wife of the fifth President James Monroe, born in New York City (d. 1830)
- Jul 27 Charlotte Corday, French revolutionary who murdered Jean-Paul Marat in a bath, born in Saint-Saturnin, France (d. 1793)
- Aug 17 Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (d. 1800)
- Aug 27 Anne François Mellinet, French-Belgian general (Maastricht), born in Corbeil-Essonnes, France (d. 1852)
- Sep 1 Karl Bernhard Wessely, German composer (Sulamith und Eusebia), born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1826)
- Sep 4 François René de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala), born in Saint-Malo, France (d. 1848)
- Sep 12 Benjamin Carr, American organist, composer, choirmaster, teacher, music publisher, and co-founder of Philadelphia's Music Fund Society, born in London (d. 1831)
- Sep 14 Georg Johann Schinn, German composer, born in Sinzig, Germany (d. 1833)
- Sep 23 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (Rights of Wallace, invented the eidograph), born at Dysart, Scotland (d. 1843)
- Oct 2 William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician, born in Bedgebury, Kent, England (d. 1854)
- Oct 11 Adriaan van den Ende, Dutch vicar and educationalist, born in Delft, Netherlands (d. 1846)
- Oct 13 Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer, born in Honfleur, Calvados, France (d. 1839)
- Oct 26 Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician, born in Radzyń Podlaski, Poland (d. 1844)
- Nov 8 Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, 6th child and second daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte, born in London (d. 1840)
- Nov 21 Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist and philosopher, born in Breslau, Prussian Silesia (d. 1834)
- Nov 29 Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, Flemish violinist, conductor, and compose, born in Brussels, Austrian Netherlands (d. 1804)
- Nov 30 Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist (creation of modern Polish terminology in the field of chemistry), born in Żnin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1838)
- Dec 6 Johann Baptist Henneberg, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1822)
- Dec 22 John Crome (Old Crome), English landscape artist, born in Norwich, England (d. 1821)
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