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1799 1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). Events Ongoing events Births - James Townsend Saward, English barrister and forger
- January 6 - Jedediah Smith United States fur trapper and explorer
- January 31 - Rodolphe Tpffer, Swiss teacher, author, painter, caricature artist, and comic creator
- April 12 - Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1855)
- May 13 - Catherine Gore, author (d. 1861)
- May 20- Honor de Balzac, French author
- May 21 - Mary Anning, British paleontologist
- June 6 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author
- July 4 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway
- June 18 - Prosper Mnire, French physician
- September 8 - James Bowman Lindsay, Scottish inventor
- November 1 - Thomas Baldwin Marsh, early leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- December 30 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist
Deaths - January 17 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician
- February 7 - Qianlong Emperor of China
- February 19 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor
- May 4 - Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler
- May 18 - Pierre Beaumarchais, French writer
- June 6 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary politician
- August 2 - Jacques tienne Montgolfier, French inventor
- August 4 - John Bacon - British sculptor
- August 29 - Pope Pius VI
- October 6 - William Withering, British doctor
- October 24 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer
- December 14 - George Washington, first president of the United States
- tienne-Louis Boulle, French architect
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