* 1725 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader ( d. 1807 )

* 1807 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist ( d. 1892 )

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

* 1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

He was one of the founders of the Geological Society of London in 1807 and was its honorary secretary in 1812 – 1817.

* Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington ( 1807 – 1884 ), British soldier and nobleman

* 1807 – David Rice Atchison, American politician ( d. 1886 )

** 10 March 1803 – 26 April 1803 Johann Rudolf Dolder ( b. 1753 – d. 1807 )

" Tradition, reported by George Chalmers in his Caledonia ( 1807 ), and by the New Statistical Account ( 1834 – 1845 ), has it that the early-historic mound of the Cunninghillock by Inverurie is the burial place of Áed.

His sons were: Mustafa IV ( 1807 – 08 ) ( his son by Ayşe Seniyeperver ), Mahmud II ( 1808 – 39 ) ( his son by Naksh-i-Dil Haseki ), Murad, Nusret, Mehmed, Ahmed, and Süleyman.

His siblings included Sarah ( 1802 – 1859 ), Naphtali ( 1807 ), Ralph ( 1809 – 1898 ), and James ( 1813 – 1868 ).

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

* Jérôme I ( 1807 – 1813 )

#** Joseph Lucien Bonaparte ( 1806 – 1807 )

#** Jeanne Adélaïde Bonaparte ( 1807 – 1829 )

* Harriet Taylor Mill ( 1807 – 1858 ), a philosopher and women's rights advocate

Harriet Taylor Mill ( née Harriet Hardy ) ( 8 October 1807 – 3 November 1858 ) was a philosopher and women's rights advocate.

Born in 1786 to a rich and religious family in Connecticut, Taylor entered Yale University when only 14 ( 1800 ) but could not graduate until 1807 because of an eye problem.

A quote from John Taylor, who compiled a biography of Skelmanthorpe-born preacher Isaac Marsden ( 1807 – 1882 ), records that " Public houses were crowded with drunken revellers, who caroused all day and made night hideous with quarrels and disturbances ... Among these scenes of revelry were mountebanks, showmen, fortune telling Gypsies, vagabonds and thieves from every quarter.

* Thomas Taylor, The treatises of Aristotle, on the heavens, on generation & corruption, and on meteors ( Somerset, England: The Prometheus Trust, 2004, 1807 ).

John Taylor, April 17, 1807 ; Catharine Ann, 12 December 1808, died 9 October 1811 ; George William, 26 February 1811, died 23 September 1815 ; Charles Sherman, 4 December 1812, died 26 October 1815 ; Augustus, April 19, 1814, died 31 October 1815 ; Frederick, July 20, 1817, died July 17, 1876 and Mary Cornelia, May 29, 1819.

James Duffy was attending a wedding party at Culbertson's Mill in Duboistown in February 1807 when he was accidentally killed.

Mill Hill School Foundation 1807 – 2007 by School Historian, Roderick Braithwaite ; the school's Archivist is Dr. Pamela Johnson.

"' Strikingly Alive ', The History of the Mill Hill School Foundation 1807 – 2007 "; published Phillimore & Co.

Helm Mill on Factory Lane was the first mill built in 1807.

In 1807 he supported Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet, a Parliamentary candidate for Westminster, which allowed him to come into contact with such theorists as William Godwin, James Mill, Robert Owen, Jeremy Bentham, Joseph Hume and John Stuart Mill.

* 1807 – John Newton, English cleric and hymnist ( b. 1725 )

* 1724 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, English field marshal ( d. 1807 )

* 1725 – John Newton, English sailor and clergyman ( d. 1807 )

* 1807 – Thomas Hawksley, English engineer ( d. 1893 )

* John Walker ( lexicographer ) ( 1732 – 1807 ), English lexicographer, actor and philologist

* 1807 – Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire

To the Friends of Literature in the United States, Webster's prospectus ( book ) | prospectus for his first dictionary of the English language, 1807 – 1808

In 1807 Webster began compiling an expanded and fully comprehensive dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English Language ; it took eighteen years to complete.

Direct tracings of the vibrations of sound-producing objects such as tuning forks had been made by English physician Thomas Young in 1807, but the first known device for recording airborne speech, music and other sounds is the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by French typesetter and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.

* July 24 – John Newton, English cleric and hymnist ( d. 1807 )

It was not until 1807 that English law abolished the African slave trade.

Stephen Childe ( 1807 – 1923 ) had been the son of William Childe, a stern English priest and teacher, and had followed in his father's footsteps by being ordained into the Church of England in 1867 after gaining a BA from the University of Cambridge.

Incorporated in 1807 from part of New London, the town took its name from Dr. James Wilmot, an English clergyman who had spoken out against England's treatment of the American colonies.

In 1807 he declared himself " président et généralissime des forces de terre et de mer de l ' État d ' Haïti '" ( English: President and Generalissimo of the armies of land and sea of the State of Haïti ).

* Robert Montgomery ( poet ) ( 1807 – 1855 ), English poet and minister

He divorced Mary for adultery by legal actions in 1807 and 1808 in the English and Scottish courts — and by act of parliament — which caused much public scandal.

* Charles Moore ( English politician ) ( 1771 – 1826 ), English politician, Member of Parliament 1799 – 1802, 1802 – 1806 and 1807 – 1812

William Markham ( 1719 – 1807 ), English divine and archbishop of York, was educated at Westminster and at Christ Church, Oxford.

Christopher Wordsworth ( 30 October 1807 – 20 March 1885 ) was an English bishop and man of letters.

Gustav IV naturally rejected all the proposals of Alexander to close the Baltic against the English ; but took no measures to defend Finland against Russia, though, during the autumn of 1807, it was notorious ( obvious ) that the tsar was preparing to attack the grand duchy.

John Opie ( 16 May 1761 – 9 April 1807 ) was an English historical and portrait painter.

Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt ( 10 October 1757 – 5 November 1847 ) was an English clergyman who was Bishop of Carlisle from 1791 to 1807, and then Archbishop of York until his death.