Editing 1745 (section)

== Births ==
* c. January &ndash; [[Isaac Titsingh]], Dutch scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador (d. [[1812]])
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Anthony Wayne]], [[United States Army]] officer, statesman and member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] (d. [[1796]])
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier]], French inventor (d. [[1799]])
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Johan Christian Fabricius]], Danish zoologist (d. [[1808]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Caleb Strong]], American politician (d. [[1819]])
* [[February]] &ndash; [[Samuel Hearne]], English explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist (d. [[1792]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Hannah More]], English religious writer, Romantic poet and philanthropist (d. [[1833]])
[[File:Alessandro Volta.jpeg|thumb|right|110px|[[Alessandro Volta]]]]
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Alessandro Volta]], Italian physicist (d. [[1827]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Henry James Pye]], English poet (d. [[1813]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Olof Tempelman]], Swedish architect (d. [[1816]])
* [[February 24]] – [[Fyodor Ushakov]], a Russian  [[Saint]] and [[Admiral]] (d. [[1817]])
* [[March 4]] 
** [[Charles Dibdin]], English composer (d. [[1814]]) 
** [[Kazimierz Pułaski]], American Revolutionary War general (d. [[1779]]) 
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[John Gunby]], Maryland soldier in the [[American Revolutionary War]] (d. [[1807]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[John Barry (naval officer)|John Barry]], officer in the [[Continental Navy]] during the [[American Revolutionary]] War and later in the [[United States Navy]] (d. [[1803]])
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Thomas Peters (supercentenarian)|Thomas Peters]], Dutch [[supercentenarian]] (d. [[1857]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Philippe Pinel]], French physician (d. [[1826]])
* [[April 29]] – [[Oliver Ellsworth]], American founding father and 3rd [[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court]] (d. [[1807]])
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Sara Banzet]], French educator and diarist (d. [[1774]])
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Robert Calder]], British naval officer (d. [[1818]])
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Timothy Pickering]], American politician (d. [[1829]])
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Francis Asbury]], [[United Methodist Church|American Methodist]] [[Bishop]] (d. [[1816]])
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Johann Hieronymus Schröter]], German astronomer (d. [[1816]]) 
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Schneur Zalman of Liadi]], Russian rabbi and founder of [[Chabad]] (d. [[1812]])
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov]], Russian field marshal (d. [[1813]])
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Valentin Haüy]], French educator, founder of the first school for the blind (d. [[1822]]) 
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Queen Jeongsun]], Korean regent (d. [[1805]])  
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Johann Gottfried Koehler]], German astronomer (d. [[1801]])
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[William Paterson (judge)|William Paterson]], American politician and [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1806]])
* ''date unknown''
**[[Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua]], Peruvian indigenous rebel leader (d. [[1781]]) 
**[[Gim Hongdo]] (Danwon), Korean painter (d. [[1806]])
**[[Robert H. Harrison]], American jurist and [[lieutenant colonel]] of the [[Continental Army]] (d. [[1790]])
**[[Olaudah Equiano]] (Gustavus Vassa), slave, abolitionist, author (d. [[1797]])