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[[File:Batalla de Boyaca de Martin Tovar y Tovar.jpg|thumb|right|[[August 7]]: General [[Simon Bolivar]] leads Colombian nationalists to victory over Spain in the decisive [[Battle of Boyacá]].]]
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[[File:Peterloo Massacre.png|thumb|[[August 16]]: At least 600 people are injured, 15 of them fatally, in the [[Peterloo Massacre]] of protesters in England.]]
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== Events ==

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 2]] &ndash; The [[Panic of 1819]], the first major peacetime [[financial crisis]] in the [[United States]], begins.
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Thomas Jefferson]] founds the [[University of Virginia]].
* [[January 29]] &ndash; Sir [[Stamford Raffles]] lands on the island of [[Singapore]].
* [[February 6]] &ndash; The [[1819 Singapore Treaty|Treaty of Singapore]], is signed between [[Hussein Shah of Johor]] and Sir [[Stamford Raffles]] of Britain, to create a trading settlement in [[Singapore]].[https://www.nlb.gov.sg/main/article-detail?cmsuuid=92bb56f0-e821-40d1-bd8c-cf8fa7e7f172]
* [[February 15]] &ndash; The [[United States House of Representatives]] agrees to the [[Tallmadge Amendment]], barring slaves from the new state of Missouri (the opening vote in a controversy that leads to the [[Missouri Compromise]]).
* [[February 19]] &ndash; Captain [[William Smith (mariner)|William Smith]] sights [[Williams Point]], the northeast extremity of [[Livingston Island]] in the [[South Shetland Islands|South Shetlands]], the first land discovered south of [[latitude]] 60° S.
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Adams–Onís Treaty]]: Agreement is reached for Spain to cede [[Florida]] (already under USA's domination) to the United States in exchange for renunciation of American claims on [[Texas]] arising from the [[Louisiana Purchase]], American payment of $5 million to settle citizens' claims regarding Florida,<ref>The U.S. commission established to adjudicate claims considered some 1,800 claims resulting from the transfer and agreed they were collectively worth $5,454,545.13. Because the treaty limited the payment of claims to $5 million, the commission reduced the amount paid out proportionately by {{frac|8|1|3}} percent.{{cn|date=July 2025}}</ref> and definition of international borders. Following ratification, the treaty takes effect in 1821.
* [[March 23]] &ndash; In [[Mannheim]], [[Duchy of Baden]], German dramatist [[August von Kotzebue]] is assassinated by [[Karl Ludwig Sand]].

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 6]]&ndash;[[June 21]] &ndash; The French [[slave ship]] ''Le Rodeur'' sails from [[Bonny, Rivers|Bonny]] in West Africa to [[Guadeloupe]] in the West Indies. In the course of the transatlantic voyage many onboard become blind, and 30 [[slave]]s are thrown overboard as a consequence.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Western Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m9wlAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA284|journal=The Missionary Register|publisher=[[Church Missionary Society]]|volume=9|date=July 1821|location=London|pages=284–5}}</ref>
* [[April 7]] (N.S.) ([[March 26]] O.S.) &ndash; The [[Governorate of Livonia]] of the Russian Empire emancipates its peasants from [[serfdom]].
* [[April 21]] &ndash; In a period of about a month starting today during his "Living Year", English poet [[John Keats]] writes "[[La Belle Dame sans Merci]]" and most of his major odes.<ref name=Keats>{{cite book|first=John|last=Keats|title=The Complete Poems|editor=Barnard, John|location=Harmondsworth|publisher=Penguin Education|year=1973|isbn=0-14-080668-7}}</ref>
* [[May 22]]
** The {{SS|Savannah}} leaves port at [[Savannah, Georgia]], on a voyage to become the first [[steamship]] to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrives at [[Liverpool]], England, nearly a month later, on [[June 20]], although only a fraction of the trip is made under steam.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
** The city of [[Memphis, Tennessee]], is founded.
* [[June 16]] &ndash; The [[1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake|Rann of Kutch earthquake]], estimated at at least 7.7 {{M|w|link=y}} kills at least 1,543 people in [[India]] in what is now the state of [[Gujarat]] at the [[Arabian Sea]], causing an {{convert|80|-|150|km|abbr=on}} stretch of land to be raised as much as {{convert|6|m|abbr=on}} and creating a natural dam, the Allahbund.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 1]] &ndash; German astronomer [[Johann Georg Tralles]] discovers what will be called the [[Great Comet of 1819]].<ref>Dometa Wiegand Brothers, ''The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy: On All Sides Infinity'' (Springer, 2015) p. 127</ref>
* [[July 21]] &ndash; Explorer [[William Parry (explorer)|William Parry]], sailing in the Arctic in a quest for the [[Northwest Passage]] through North America, guides the ships [[HMS Hecla (1815)|HMS ''Hecla'']] and [[HMS Griper (1813)|HMS ''Griper'']] through an iceberg-laden passage that will later be named the [[Parry Channel]].<ref>Clements R. Markham, ''The Lands of Silence: A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration'' (Cambridge University Press, 2014) p. 207</ref>  
* [[July 24]] &ndash; A cabinet meeting is convened by British Prime Minister [[Lord Liverpool]] to discuss a report of an adulterous affair involving the wife of [[George IV|George, Prince of Wales]], the regent for his ailing father King [[George III]].  Despite reports that [[Caroline of Brunswick|Princess Caroline]] is involved with her servant, Bartolomeo Pergami, the cabinet concludes that the trial of Caroline for adultery would be an embarrassment to the nation.<ref>Saul David, ''Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency'' (Grove Press, 2000) p. 388</ref>
* [[August 2]] &ndash; The first [[Hep-Hep riots]], communal [[pogrom]]s against [[Ashkenazi Jews]] in the German Federation begin at [[Würzburg]] in Bavaria. They continue until October with many Jews killed.
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Norwich University]] is founded by Captain [[Alden Partridge]] in [[Vermont]] as the first private military school in the United States.
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Battle of Boyacá]]: [[Simón Bolívar]] is victorious over the Royalist Army in [[Colombia]]. Colombia acquires its definitive independence from [[Viceroyalty of New Granada|Spanish rule]].
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Peterloo Massacre]]:  A [[yeomanry]] unit charges into a crowd of [[Radicals (UK)|radical]] protesters in [[Manchester]], England, resulting in 15 deaths and over 600 injuries.
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Salon of 1819]] opens in [[Paris]]. Amongst the exhibits is ''[[The Raft of the Medusa]]''.
* [[September 20]] &ndash; The [[Carlsbad Decrees]] are issued throughout the [[German Confederation]] in response to the March assassination of [[August von Kotzebue]], suppressing liberal and nationalist views.

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 13]] &ndash; A treaty is entered between the Raja of Cutch [[Deshalji II]], and [[East India Company]], placing the [[Cutch State]] under Company rule.<ref>James Burgess, ''The Chronology of Modern India'',  p. 313,   Edinburgh, 1913</ref>
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Desolation Island (South Shetland Islands)|Desolation Island]], in the [[South Shetland Islands]] of the Antarctic, is discovered by Captain [[William Smith (mariner)|William Smith]].
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[Bagyidaw]] is crowned as [[List of Burmese monarchs|Emperor of Burma]], at the imperial capital of [[Inwa]].  
* [[November 3]] &ndash; The {{USS|Congress|1799|6}} becomes the first American warship to visit [[China]], landing at [[Nei Lingding Island|Lintin Island]], off of the coast of [[Guangzhou|Canton]].<ref>George B. Clark, ''Treading Softly: U.S. Marines in China, 1819-1949'' (Greenwood, 2001) p1</ref>
* [[November 19]] &ndash; The ''[[Museo del Prado]]'' opens in [[Madrid]].<ref>"Museums and their precursors: a brief survey", in ''Manual of Curatorship: A Guide to Museum Practice'', ed. by John M. A. Thompson (Routledge, 2015)</ref>  Initially, it has 311 significant paintings.<ref>James Leonard Mack, ''My Life, My Country, My World'' (Dorrance Publishing, 2008)</ref>
* [[November 25]] &ndash; A [[Persian Gulf campaign of 1819|British expeditionary force]] reaches [[Ras Al Khaimah]] in the [[Persian Gulf]], preparatory to the bombardment and invasion of the town, which led to the signing of the [[General Maritime Treaty of 1820]] between the British and what were to become known as the [[Trucial States]].
* [[December 14]] – [[Alabama]] is admitted as the 22nd [[U.S. state]].
* [[December 17]]
**The [[Republic of Gran Colombia]] is formally established, with [[Simón Bolívar]] as its first president.
**The new [[Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte|astronomical observatory of Capodimonte]] in [[Naples]] starts operating. The astronomer [[Carlo Brioschi (astronomer)|Carlo Brioschi]] made the first observation by measuring the position of [[Alpha Cassiopeiae|⍺ Cassiopeiae]].

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* Early &ndash; [[Denis Johnson (inventor)|Denis Johnson]] of London markets his "pedestrian curricle", a form of [[dandy horse]], [[velocipede]] or [[kick scooter]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Pedestrian Hobby-Horse|first=Roger|last=Street|publisher=Artesius Publications|location=Christchurch|year=1998|isbn=0953272206}}</ref>
* The city of Fernandina de Jagua (later [[Cienfuegos]]) is founded in [[Cuba]].
* A British Arctic expedition under [[William Parry (explorer)|William Parry]], comprising [[HMS Hecla (1815)|HMS ''Hecla'']] and [[HMS Griper (1813)|HMS ''Griper'']], reaches [[longitude]] 112°51' W in the [[Northwest Passage]], the furthest west which will be attained by any single-season voyage for 150 years.<ref>''Journal of a Voyage to Discover a North-west Passage''. 1821.</ref>
* The United States [[African Slave Trade Patrol]] is founded to stop the slave trade on the coast of West Africa.

== Births ==
=== January&ndash;June ===
[[File:John Ruskin 1863.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Ruskin]]]]
[[File:Queen Victoria by Bassano.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Queen Victoria]]]]
[[File:Jacques Offenbach by Nadar.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Jacques Offenbach]]]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Arthur Hugh Clough]], English poet  (d. [[1861]])
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Baldassare Verazzi]], Italian painter (d. [[1886]])
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Theresa Pulszky]], European author (d. [[1866]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[William Powell Frith]], English painter (d. [[1909]])
* [[February 8]]
**[[Sidonija Rubido]], Croatian singer (d. [[1884]])
**[[John Ruskin]], English writer, artist, and social critic (d. [[1900]])
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Samuel Parkman Tuckerman]], American composer (d. [[1890]])
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Christopher Latham Sholes]], American inventor (d. [[1890]]) 
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Alfred Escher]], Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. [[1882]])
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[James Russell Lowell]], American poet, essayist (d. [[1891]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Gustave de Molinari]], Belgian economist (d. [[1912]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Erik Edlund]], Swedish physicist, meteorologist (d. [[1888]])
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[Louise Otto-Peters]], German women's rights movement activist (d. [[1895]]) 
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst]], [[Chancellor of Germany#Under the Emperor (1871–1918)|Chancellor of Germany]] (d. [[1901]])
* [[April 4]] &ndash; Queen [[Maria II of Portugal]] (d. [[1853]])
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[Charles Hallé]], German pianist, conductor (d. [[1895]])
* [[April 18]]
**[[Carlos Manuel de Céspedes]], Cuban revolutionary hero (d. [[1874]])
**[[Franz von Suppé]], Austrian composer (d. [[1895]])
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Edward Stafford (politician)|Edward Stafford]], Scottish-New Zealand educator and politician, 3rd [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (d. [[1901]])
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Ezra Abbot]], American Biblical scholar (d. [[1884]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Stanisław Moniuszko]], Polish composer (d. [[1872]])
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Queen Victoria]] of the United Kingdom (d. [[1901]])
* [[May 27]]
** [[George V of Hanover]] (d. [[1878]])
** [[Julia Ward Howe]], American [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]] and poet (d. [[1910]])
* [[May 31]] 
** [[Walt Whitman]], American poet (d. [[1892]])<ref>[[James E. Miller|Miller, James E.]] ''Walt Whitman''. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc. 1962. Page 17</ref>
** [[William Worrall Mayo]], English-American physician, chemist (d. [[1911]]) 
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[John Couch Adams]], English astronomer (d. [[1892]])
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Gustave Courbet]], French painter (d. [[1877]])
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Charles Kingsley]], English clergyman, historian, and novelist (d. [[1875]])<ref>{{EB1911 |wstitle=Kingsley, Charles |volume=15 |page=817 |noprescript=1}}</ref>
* [[June 20]] &ndash; [[Jacques Offenbach]], German-born French composer (d. [[1880]])
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Nicolae Bălcescu]], Wallachian revolutionary (d. [[1852]])

=== July&ndash;December ===
[[File:Clara Schumann 1878.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Clara Schumann]]]]
[[File:Foucault.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Léon Foucault]]]]
[[File:Kurzbio fontane05.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Theodor Fontane]]]]
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Francis Leopold McClintock]], Irish explorer and admiral in British Royal Navy (d. [[1907]]) 
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[Elias Howe]], American inventor, [[sewing machine]] pioneer (d. [[1867]]) 
* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[Gottfried Keller]], Swiss writer (d. [[1890]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/gottfried-keller-at-200-an-enduring-literary-legacy/a-49652919|title=Gottfried Keller at 200: An enduring literary legacy|author=Jochen Kurten|date=19 July 2019|website=DW.com|access-date=3 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Justin Holland]], American musician, civil rights activist (d. [[1887]])
* [[August 1]]
** [[Richard Dadd]], British painter (d. [[1886]])
** [[Herman Melville]], American novelist (d. [[1891]])
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Ioan Emanoil Florescu]], Romanian general and politician, two-time [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (d. [[1893]])
* [[August 9]] &ndash; [[William Thomas Green Morton]], American dentist who first administered [[diethyl ether|ether]] (d.[[1868]])
* [[August 13]] &ndash; Sir [[George Gabriel Stokes]], Irish mathematician, physicist (d. [[1903]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt]], Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. [[1894]])
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Allan Pinkerton]], American detective (d. [[1884]])
* [[August 26]]
** [[Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]], Consort to [[Queen Victoria]] (d. [[1861]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Albert, Prince Consort {{!}} Biography, Children, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albert-Prince-Consort |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Lawrence Dudley Bailey]], American [[abolitionist]] and jurist who served on the [[Kansas Supreme Court]] from 1861 to 1869 (d. [[1891]])
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Clara Schumann]], German composer, pianist (d. [[1896]])
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Marthinus Wessel Pretorius]], 1st President of the South African Republic (d. [[1901]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Léon Foucault]], French physicist (d. [[1868]])
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Théodore Chassériau]], French painter (d. [[1856]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Wattenbach]], German historian (d. [[1897]])
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Hippolyte Fizeau]], French physicist (d. [[1896]])
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Edward Watkin]], English railway pioneer, politician (d. [[1901]])
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Narcís Monturiol]], [[Catalonia|Catalan]] intellectual, artist and engineer (d. [[1885]])
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Théonie Rivière Mignot]], American restaurateur and businesswoman (d. [[1875]])
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Austin F. Pike]], American politician from New Hampshire (d. [[1886]])
* [[October 20]] &ndash; The [[Báb]], Persian founder of the [[Bábism|Bábi Faith]] (d. [[1850]])
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers]], American admiral (d. [[1892]])
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Annibale de Gasparis]], Italian astronomer (d. [[1892]])
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[George Eliot]], British novelist (d. [[1880]])
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[John Cummings Howell]], United States Navy admiral (d. [[1892]])
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Felice Orsini]], Italian revolutionary (d. [[1858]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Carl Siegmund Franz Credé]], German gynecologist, obstetrician (d. [[1892]])
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Theodor Fontane]], German writer (d. [[1898]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Gaskell|title=Landmarks in Continental European Literature|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn|year=1999|ISBN=9781579581916|page=181}}</ref>

===Date unknown===
* [[Alexandru G. Golescu]], 11th Prime Minister of Romania (d. [[1881]])
* [[Mary Jane Richardson Jones]], American abolitionist and suffragist (d. [[1909]])

== Deaths ==
 
=== January&ndash;June ===
[[File:Kamehameha I.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Kamehameha I]]]]
* [[January 9]] &ndash; Princess [[Catherine Pavlovna of Russia]], Queen of Württemberg (b. [[1788]])
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Benedikte Naubert]], German writer (b. [[1752]])
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Elsa Beata Bunge]], [[Swedish people|Swedish]] [[botanist]] (b. [[1734]]) 
* [[January 20]] &ndash; King [[Charles IV of Spain]] (b. [[1748]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Henry Constantine Jennings]], British collector, gambler (b. [[1731]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Francisco Manoel de Nascimento]], Portuguese poet (b. [[1734]])
* [[March]] &ndash; [[Nonosabasut]], [[Beothuk]] (indigenous Canadian) leader
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi]], German philosopher (b. [[1743]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Oliver Evans]], American inventor, engineer and businessman (b. [[1755]])
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Kamehameha I]], King of Hawaii (b. [[1738]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Hugh Williamson]], American Founding Father (b. [[1735]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Johann von Hiller]], Austrian general (b. [[1754]])
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[George Barclay (MP)|George Barclay]], English politician (b.[[1759]])
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[María Antonia Santos Plata]], Neogranadine rebel leader, heroine (b. [[1782]])

=== July&ndash;December ===
[[File:Portrait of Oliver Hazard Perry, 1818.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Oliver Hazard Perry]]]]
[[File:Watt James von Breda.jpg|thumb|110px|[[James Watt]]]]
* [[July 1]] &ndash; the [[Public Universal Friend]],  American preacher (b. [[1752]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Wisbey|first=Herbert A. Jr|orig-year=1965|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nu_Kk0mwm00C|title=Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-7551-1|year=2009}}, p. 163; Moyer, Paul B. ''The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America.'' Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015, p. 243</ref>
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[Sophie Blanchard]], French aeronaut (b. [[1778]])
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[John Playfair]], Scottish scientist, mathematician (b. [[1748]])
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[George Leonard (Congressman)|George Leonard]], American lawyer, jurist and politician (b. [[1729]])
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Simon Knéfacz]], Croatian writer (b. [[1752]])
* [[August 9]] &ndash; [[John Faucheraud Grimké]], American politician (b. [[1752]])
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[William Lewis (judge)|William Lewis]], American politician (b. [[1752]])
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Haim Farhi]], Jewish adviser to the Ottoman Empire (assassinated) (b. [[1760]])
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Oliver Hazard Perry]], American naval officer (b. [[1785]])
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[James Watt]], Scottish inventor (b. [[1736]])<ref>{{cite web |title=James Watt {{!}} Biography, Inventions, Steam Engine, Significance, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Watt |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=14 May 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher]], Prussian general (b. [[1742]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[John Langdon (politician)|John Langdon]], American Founding Father (b. [[1741]])
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Abbé Faria]], Luso-Goan hypnotist (b. [[1746]])

* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[James Bunbury White]], American politician (b. [[1774]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wwaytv3.com/cape_fear_pride_whiteville_founder_james_b_white-03-2009|title=Cape Fear Pride Whiteville: Founder James B. White|date=March 5, 2009|website=[[WWAY]]3}}</ref>
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Charles Emmanuel IV]] of Savoy, abdicated King of Sardinia (b. [[1751]])
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[William Samuel Johnson]], American Founding Father (b. [[1727]])
* [[October 13]] &ndash; [[Imperial Concubine Chun]] of the [[Jiaqing Emperor]] of China
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Thomas Johnson (jurist)|Thomas Johnson]], American politician and jurist (b. [[1732]])
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Caleb Strong]], American politician (b. [[1745]])
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Simon Snyder]], American politician (b. [[1759]])
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Alexander Tormasov]], Russian general (b. [[1752]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg]], German poet (b. [[1750]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Daniel Rutherford]], Scottish physician, chemist and botanist (b. [[1749]])
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Charles Finch (MP)]], British politician (b. [[1752]])
* [[December 19]]
** [[Thomas Fremantle (Royal Navy officer)|Thomas Fremantle]], English naval officer, politician (b. [[1765]])
** [[Henry Latimer (senator)]], American politician (b. [[1752]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Mariano Osorio]], Governor of Chile (b. [[1777]])
* [[Franciszek Ksawery Branicki]], Polish nobleman (b. c. [[1730]])

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