page_title: 1780
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1780 / Births
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Richard Mentor Johnson
context_page_description: 1780 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1780th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 780th year of the 2nd millennium, the 80th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1780, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: 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)
  February 1 – David Porter, American naval officer (d. 1843)
  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 17 – Richard Mentor Johnson, 9th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
  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)
  December 13 – Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist (d. 1849)
  December 26 – Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)
caption: Richard Mentor Johnson
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