Year (''' MDCCXCVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 10 - Annette Von Droste-Hülshoff , German writer (died 1848 )
- January 31 - Franz Schubert , Austrian pianist and composer (died 1828 )
- February 15 - Henry Engelhard Steinway , German-American piano manufacturer (died 1871 )
- March 22 - Emperor Wilhelm I Of Germany (died 1888 )
- March 27 - Alfred De Vigny , French author (died 1863 )
- May 6 - Joseph Brackett , American religious leader and composer (died 1882 )
- May 18 - Frederick Augustus II Of Saxony , (died 1854 )
- July 20 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki , Polish explorer and geologist (died 1873 )
- August 30 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , English writer (died 1851 )
- October 3 - Leopold II, Grand Duke Of Tuscany (died 1870 )
- November 14 - Sir Charles Lyell , British geologist (died 1875 )
- November 29 - Gaetano Donizetti , Italian composer (died 1848 )
- December 13 - Heinrich Heine , German poet (died 1856 )
- December 17 - Joseph Henry , American scientist (died 1878 )
- ''date unknown'' - Utagawa Kuniyoshi , Japanese woodblock print or ukiyo-e (died 1861 )
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- January 13 - Elisabeth Christine Von Braunschweig-Bevern , wife of Frederick II Of Prussia (born 1715 )
- February 11 - Antoine Dauvergne , French composer (born 1713 )
- February 22 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr Von Münchhausen , German officer and adventurer (born 1720 )
- March 2 - Horace Walpole , English politician and writer (born 1717 )
- March 26 - James Hutton , Scottish geologist (born 1726 )
- March 31 - Olaudah Equiano Nigerian ex-slave and slavery abolitionist (born 1745 )
- May 17 - Michel-Jean Sedaine , French dramatist (born 1719 )
- May 25 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard De Walden , British field marshal (born 1719 )
- May 27 - François-Noël Babeuf , French revolutionary leader (executed) (born 1760 )
- May 27 - Augustin Alexandre Darthé , French revolutionary leader (executed) (born 1769 )
- July 9 - Edmund Burke , Irish philosopher (born 1723 )
- July 11 - Ienăchiţă Văcărescu , Wallachian writer (born 1740 )
- August 3 - Jeffrey Amherst , British military commander (born 1717 )
- August 22 - Dagobert Sigmund Von Wurmser , Alsatian-born Austrian general (born 1724 )
- October 9 - Vilna Gaon , Lithuanian rabbi (born 1720 )
- November 14 - Ivan Shuvalov , founder of the Moscow University (born 1727 )
- November 16 - King Frederick William II of Prussia (born 1744 )
- November 18 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon De Ladebat , French shipbuilder and merchant (born 1719 )
- November 29 - Samuel Langdon , American President of Harvard University (born 1723 )
- December 11 - Richard Brocklesby , English physician (born 1722 )
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The events of happen in this year.
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