| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 12 |
Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general (d. 1795) |
Jan 15 |
Philip Livingston, American businessman and politician (signed Declaration of Independence) |
Jan 20 |
Carlos III, king of Naples/Spain (1759-88) Pompei/Jesuits |
Jan 20 |
King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788) |
Jan 20 |
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795) |
Jan 26 |
George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville |
Feb 18 |
Gaspard Fritz, composer |
Mar 6 |
Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779) |
Mar 21 |
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer |
Apr 4 |
John Evangelist Schreiber, composer |
Apr 9 |
Johann Georg Zechner, composer |
Apr 12 |
Felice de' Giardini, composer |
May 29 |
Louis J M Daubenton, French zoologist |
Jun 18 |
Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter |
Jun 23 |
Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (d. 1789) |
Sep 2 |
Johann Trier, composer |
Oct 3 |
Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781) |
Oct 6 |
George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771) |
Oct 25 |
Petronio Maria Pio Sgabazzi, composer |
Dec 1 |
Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791) |
Dec 16 |
Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798) |
Dec 23 |
Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer |
Dec 24 |
Patrice F earl De Neney, South Netherlands chairman of Secret Council |
Dec 25 |
Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar and physician (d. 1774) |
Dec 26 |
Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard) |
Dec 26 |
Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (d. 1803) |
Dec 26 |
Thomas Gray, Pastoral Panoramas |
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