* 1764 – Louis Baraguey d ' Hilliers, French general ( d. 1816 )

* Haliotis cyclobates Péron, 1816 – the whirling abalone

** Haliotis rubra conicopora Péron, 1816 – synonym: Haliotis conicopora – the conical pore abalone

* 1816 – The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.

* Adrian Zingg ( 1734 – 1816 ), Swiss painter

* 1816 – Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist ( d. 1856 )

* 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.

August Wilhelm Ambros ( November 17, 1816 – June 28, 1876 ) was an Austrian composer and music historian of Czech descent.

* 1816 – Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed.

He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming ( 1816 – 1888 ) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton ( 1848 – 1928 ), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.

* 1816 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English chapel builder ( d. 1876 )

Four more children followed: Charlotte, ( 1816 – 1855 ), Patrick Branwell ( 1817 – 1848 ), Emily, ( 1818 – 1848 ) and Anne ( 1820 – 1849 ).

* 1816 – Charlotte Brontë, English author ( d. 1855 )

* 1816 – The United States Government approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.

She was a daughter of Frederick William of Nassau-Weilburg ( 1768 – 1816 ) and his wife Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg.

Battle of the Nile, Augt 1st 1798, Thomas Whitcombe, 1816, National Maritime Museum – the climax of the battle, as Orient explodes

#** Antoine Lucien Bonaparte ( 1816 – 1877 )

* 12 June 1814 – 3 October 1814 José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco ( 2nd time ); he stayed on as " supreme dictator " 3 October 1814 – 20 September 1840 ( from 6 June 1816 styled " perpetual supreme dictator ")

He passed the examination in the elements of mathematics and the theory of navigation at the Royal Naval Academy on 2 – 4 September 1816, and became a 1st Lieutenant on 1 September 1818.

* 1816 – August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born American financier ( d. 1890 )

* 1893 – Georg August Rudolph, German politician ( b. 1816 )

William Roberts's review, for the August 1816 British Review, was more positive than previous analysis but with no detail about the work: " passing over the two other poems which are bound together with ' Christabel ', called ' The Fragment of Kubla Khan ', and ' The Pains of Sleep '; in which, however, there are some playful thoughts and fanciful imagery, which we would gladly have extracted if our room would have allowed it.

In August, 1816, seven hundred former Black slaves from the US South, who had escaped to the British lines during the War of 1812 and been recruited into the Royal Marines, were rewarded for their service to the British Crown during the war by being granted land on Trinidad and Tobago.

In August, 1816 forces from Brazil invaded the Eastern Province, with the intention of destroying the protector and his revolution.

* February 10 – The United States Coast Survey is established ; work begins on August 3, 1816.

* August 8 – Maria Theresa of Austria, the second Queen consort of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies ( b. 1816 )

* August 27, 1816 – Bombardment of Algiers: Various European Allie ships force the Dey of Algiers to free Christian slaves.

* August 24, 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.

* August 20 – Francis Asbury, American Methodist Bishop ( d. 1816 )

Thackeray's years of semi-idleness ended after he married ( 20 August 1836 ) Isabella Gethin Shawe ( 1816 – 1893 ), second daughter of Isabella Creagh Shawe and Matthew Shawe, a colonel, who had died after extraordinary service, primarily in India.

The first Belmont Stakes was held at Jerome Park Racetrack in The Bronx, built in 1866 by stock market speculator Leonard Jerome ( 1817 – 1891 ) and financed by August Belmont, Sr. ( 1816 – 1890 ), for whom the race was named.

J. M. W. Turner, the celebrated painter, arrived at High Force at 10: 00 a. m. on 3 August 1816 to sketch the scene.

At the age of eight years, August entered the Royal Ballet School at the Court Theatre in Christiansborg Palace under the tutelage of his father and Vincenzo Galeotti, ballet master and principal choreographer of the Royal Danish Ballet from 1775 to 1816.

Huge storms and abnormal rainfall with floodings of the major rivers of Europe ( including the Rhine ) are attributed to the event, as was the frost setting in during August 1816.

* Fredrik August Dahlgren ( 1816 – 1895 ) Swedish writer, playwright and songwriter

Strauss's parents, Franz Borgias Strauss ( October 10, 1764 – April 5, 1816 ) and Barbara Dollmann ( December 3, 1770 – August 28, 1811 ), were innkeepers ().

Deprived of his positions by Napoleon during the Hundred Days, he was appointed Minister of Justice under the Duc de Richelieu ( August 1815 ), tried unsuccessfully to gain the confidence of the Ultra-Royalists, and withdrew at the end of nine months ( 10 May 1816 ).

Francis Asbury ( ăz ' bərē ,-bĕ -), ( August 20, 1745 – March 31, 1816 ) was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now The United Methodist Church in the United States.

The formal proclamation of annexation was made on 14 August 1816.

* February 16 – Fredrik August Dahlgren, songwriter ( born 1816 )

She was sold 12 August 1816.

b. and died 4 August 1816.