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== Births ==
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Antonio Carnicero]], Spanish painter (d. [[1814]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Adam Weishaupt]], German founder of the [[Illuminati|Order of the Illuminati]] (d. [[1811]])
[[File:Jeremy Bentham by Henry William Pickersgill detail.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jeremy Bentham]]]]
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Jeremy Bentham]], English philosopher (d. [[1832]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Anom|title=Historical Dictionary of the British Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-X-XYB_ZkIC&pg=PA129|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29366-5|pages=129}}</ref>
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Timothy Dexter]], American businessman (d. [[1806]])
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Anders Sparrman]], Swedish naturalist (d. [[1820]])
* [[March 5]] 
** [[William Shield]], English violinist, composer (d. [[1829]])
** [[Jonas C. Dryander]], Swedish botanist (d. [[1810]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[William V, Prince of Orange]] (d. [[1806]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[John Playfair]], Scottish scientist (d. [[1819]])
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Antoine Laurent de Jussieu]], French botanist (d. [[1836]])
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Joseph Bramah]], English inventor, locksmith (d. [[1814]]) 
* [[April 27]]
** [[Pierre-Louis Ginguené]], French author (d. [[1816]]) <ref>{{cite book|author1=Hugh Chisholm|author2=James Louis Garvin|title=The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nuezwLN7O0QC|year=1926|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|page=28}}</ref>
** [[Adamantios Korais]], Greek scholar (d. [[1833]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès]], French cleric, constitutional theorist (d. [[1836]])
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[Olympe de Gouges]], French playwright (d. [[1793]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Lorrayne Y. Baird-Lange|author2=Thomas A. Copeland|title=Women in History, Literature, and the Arts: A Festschrift for Hildegard Schnuttgen in Honor of Her Thirty Years of Outstanding Service at Youngstown State University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gA0pAAAAYAAJ|year=1989|publisher=The University|isbn=978-0-9623146-1-2|page=22}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Louis Pierre Vieillot]], French ornithologist (d. [[1830]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle]] (d. [[1825]])
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[Dominique, comte de Cassini|Jacques Dominique, comte de Cassini]], French astronomer (d. [[1845]])
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Johann Friedrich Gmelin]], German naturalist (d. [[1804]])
[[File:David_Self_Portrait.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jacques-Louis David]]]]
* [[August 9]] &ndash; [[Bernhard Schott]], German music publisher (d. [[1809]])<ref>{{NDB |23|486|487|Schott, Peter Bernhard|Brück, Marion|118610546}}</ref>
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Jacques-Louis David]], French painter (d. [[1825]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco|author2=Pierre Rosenberg|title=French Paintings 1500-1825, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U3_qAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=The Museum|isbn=978-0-88401-055-5|page=143}}</ref>
* [[October 7]] &ndash; King [[Charles XIII of Sweden]] (Charles II of Norway) (d. [[1818]])
* [[October 13]] &ndash; [[Johann Dominicus Fiorillo]], German painter, art historian (d. [[1821]])
* [[November 11]] &ndash; King [[Charles IV of Spain]] (d. [[1819]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Micropaedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iI1WAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|isbn=978-0-85229-605-9|page=117}}</ref>
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[William Chalmers (merchant)|William Chalmers]], Swedish merchant (d. [[1811]])
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Claude Louis Berthollet]], French chemist (d. [[1822]])
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire]] (d. [[1811]])
* ''date unknown'' 
** [[Gioacchino Navarro]], Maltese priest and poet (d. [[1813]])
** [[James Sayers (caricaturist)|James Sayers]], English caricaturist (d. [[1823]])
** [[Timur Shah Durrani|Timur Shah]], Afghan king (d. [[1793]])
** [[Thomas Holloway (painter)|Thomas Holloway]], English portrait painter, engraver (d. [[1827]]
** [[Stylianos Vlasopoulos]], Greek judge, writer (d. [[1822]])