Year (''' MDCCLIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Friday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- January 25 - Robert Burns , Scottish poet (d. 1796 )
- February 15 - Friedrich August Wolf , German philologist and archaeologist (d. 1824 )
- May 20 - William Thornton , American architect (d. 1828 )
- May 28 - William Pitt The Younger , statesman and Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1806 )
- June 21 - Alexander J. Dallas , American statesman and financier (d. 1817 )
- August 24 - William Wilberforce , British abolitionist (d. 1833 )
- September 19 - William Kirby , English entomologist (d. 1850 )
- October 25 - Sophie Marie Dorothea Of Württemberg , empress of Paul I Of Russia (died November 5 , 1828 )
- October 25 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1834 )
- October 26 - Georges Danton , French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794 )
- November 10 - Friedrich Schiller , German writer (d. 1805 )
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- January 12 - Anne, Princess Royal And Princess Of Orange , regent of Friesland (born 1709 )
- March 11 - John Forbes , British general (born 1707 )
- April 6 - Johann Gottfried Zinn (born 1727 )
- April 14 - George Frideric Handel , German composer (born 1685 )
- May 12 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam , French sculptor (born 1700 )
- July 27 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis , French mathematician (born 1698 )
- August 6 - Eugene Aram , English philologist (born 1704 )
- August 8 - Carl Heinrich Graun , German composer (born 1704 )
- August 10 - King Ferdinand VI Of Spain (born 1713 )
- August 24 - Ewald Christian Von Kleist , German poet (born 1715 )
- September 10 - Ferdinand Konščak , Croatian explorer (b. 1703 )
- September 13 - James Wolfe , British general (born 1727 )
- September 14 - Louis-Joseph De Montcalm , French general (born 1712 )
- October 10 - Granville Elliott , British military officer (born 1713 )
- October 13 - John Henley , English minister (born 1692 )
- November 29 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician (born 1687 )
- ''date unknown'' - King Thipchakre of the Realm Of Lampang
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