page_title: 1789
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1789 / Births
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration, depicting Catharine Maria Sedgwick from the book Female Prose Writers of America by John Seely Hart.
context_page_description: 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1789th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 789th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1789, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 3 – Carl Gustav Carus, German physiologist (d. 1869)
  January 4 – Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist (d. 1839)
  January 12 – Ettore Perrone di San Martino, prime minister of Sardinia (d. 1849)
  January 21 – William Machin Stairs, Canadian businessman, statesman (d. 1865)
  February 22 – René Edward De Russy, Brigadier General of the United States Army, Superintendent of the United States Military Academy and military engineer (d. 1865)
  March 16 – Georg Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
  April 15 – Diego Noboa, 4th President of Ecuador (d. 1870)
  April 22 – Manuel Gómez Pedraza, 6th President of Mexico (d. 1851)
  May 1 – George Fife Angas, founder of South Australia (d. 1879)
  May 24 – Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress
  June 8 – Queen Sunwon, Korean regent (d. 1857)
  June 30 – Horace Vernet, French painter (d. 1863)
  July 19 – John Martin, English painter (d. 1854)
  August 6 – Friedrich List, German journalist (d. 1846)
  August 21 – Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)
  August 28 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860)
  September 3 – Hannah Flagg Gould, American poet (d. 1865)
  September 4 – Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré, French botanist (d. 1854)
  September 15 – James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (d. 1851)
  September 28 – Richard Bright, English physician, "Father of Nephrology" (d. 1858)
  October 8 – William John Swainson, English naturalist, artist (d. 1855)
  November 5 – William Bland, Australian politician (d. 1868)
  December 15
  Edward B. Dudley, North Carolina governor (d. 1855)
  Carlos Soublette, two-time President of Venezuela (d. 1870)
  December 22 – Levi Woodbury, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1851)
  December 25 – Elizabeth Jesser Reid, English social reformer, founder of Bedford College (d. 1866)
  December 28 – Catharine Sedgwick, American writer (d. 1867)
  date unknown – Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq, Urdu poet (d. 1854)
caption: Catharine Sedgwick
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