1797
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Art and culture
- The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
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Births
- January 10 – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848)
- January 31 – Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1828)
- February 15 -Henry Engelhard Steinway, German-American piano manufacturer (d. 1871)
- March 22 – Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany (d. 1888)
- March 27 – Alfred de Vigny, French author (d. 1863)
- May 6 – Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
- May 18 – Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, (d. 1854)
- June 11 – José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran Father, National Hero, and founder of Autonomus National University of Honduras (d. 1855)
- July 20 – Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)
- August 30 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
- October 3 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
- November 14 – Sir Charles Lyell, British geologist (d. 1875)
- November 29 – Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (d. 1848)
- December 13 – Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856)
- December 17 – Joseph Henry, American scientist (d. 1878)
- date unknown – Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese woodblock print or ukiyo-e (d. 1861)
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Deaths
- January 13 – Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)
- February 11 – Antoine Dauvergne, French composer (b. 1713)
- February 22 – Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
- March 2 – Horace Walpole, English politician and writer (b. 1717)
- March 26 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (b. 1726)
- March 31 – Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian ex-slave and slavery abolitionist (b. 1745)
- May 17 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)
- May 25 – John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)
- May 27 – François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1760)
- May 27 – Augustin Alexandre Darthé, French revolutionary leader (executed) (b. 1769)
- July 9 – Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher (b. 1723)
- July 11 – Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
- August 3 – Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
- August 22 – Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
- September 10 – Mary Wollstonecraft, feminist author (b. 1759)
- October 9 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720)
- November 14 – Ivan Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (b. 1727)
- November 16 – King Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744)
- November 18 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
- November 29 – Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (b. 1723)
- December 11 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
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