| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 15 |
Joseph Lederer, composer |
Jan 17 |
Thomas Linley, composer |
Jan 22 |
Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer |
Mar 5 |
Vincenzo Galeotti, [Tomazelli], Italian dancer/choreographer |
Mar 15 |
Johann Zoffany, German painter, baptized |
Mar 24 |
Joseph Priestley, England, Birstall England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen) |
Apr 2 |
Giacomo Tritto, composer |
Apr 13 |
Johann Heinrich Zang, composer |
Apr 27 |
Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter, Sulz am Neckar, German Botanist who pioneered the study of plant hybrids, especially among the tobacco plants |
May 4 |
Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799) |
May 11 |
Victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1799) |
Jun 20 |
Betty Washington sister of George Washington |
Jul 22 |
Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790) |
Jul 27 |
Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779) |
Aug 24 |
David Traugott Nicolai, composer |
Sep 18 |
George Read, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence) |
Sep 22 |
Anton Filtz, composer |
Oct 3 |
Francois Krafft, composer |
Oct 14 |
François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798) |
Oct 28 |
Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer |
5 |
Christoph Martin Wieland, Der Streit um des Esels Schatten |
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