Editing 1749 (section)

== Births ==
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Maler Müller|Friedrich Müller]], German painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist (d. [[1825]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Vittorio Alfieri]], Italian dramatist (d. [[1803]])
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Charles James Fox]], English politician (d. [[1806]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; King [[Christian VII of Denmark]] (d. [[1808]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau]], French politician (d. [[1791]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Lorenzo Da Ponte]], Italian librettist (d. [[1838]])
[[File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1745-1827) - Guérin.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Pierre Simon de Laplace]]]]
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Pierre-Simon Laplace]], French mathematician, astronomer (d. [[1827]])
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Ulla von Höpken]], Swedish courtier, influential socialite  (d. [[1810]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Edward Jenner]], English physician (d. [[1823]])
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[Adélaïde Labille-Guiard]], French portrait painter (d. [[1803]])
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Georg Joseph Vogler]], German composer (d. [[1814]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois]], French revolutionary (d. [[1796]])
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Cyrus Griffin]],  last American [[President of the Continental Congress]] (d. [[1810]])
[[File:Joseph Karl Stieler - Portrait of Madame Mère de l'Empereur (Maria Laetitia Ramolino Bonaparte, 1750 - 1836).jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Letizia Ramolino|Madame Mère]]]]
*[[August 24]] &ndash; [[Letizia Ramolino|Madame Mère]] (Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte) mother of Napoleon I (d. [[1836]])
[[File:Goethe (Stieler 1828).jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]]]
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], German writer and politician (d. [[1832]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Abraham Gottlob Werner]], German geologist (d. [[1817]])
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon|Comte Siméon Joseph Jérôme]], French jurist and politician (d. [[1842]])
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein]], Swedish ambassador (d. [[1802]])
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Daniel Rutherford]], Scottish physician, chemist and botanist (d. [[1819]]) 
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Appert]] French inventor (d. [[1841]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Edward Rutledge]], American statesman (d. [[1800]])
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth Berenberg]], German banker (d. [[1809]])
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Domenico Cimarosa]], Italian composer (d. [[1801]])
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Karl Gottfried Hagen]], German chemist (d. [[1829]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Samuel Jackson Pratt]] (known as ''Courtney Melmoth''), English writer, poet and actor (d. [[1814]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Day |first1=Gary |last2=Lynch |first2=Jack |title=The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789 |date=9 March 2015 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4443-3020-5 |page=922 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ThBhBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA922 |language=en}}</ref>
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Charlotte Melmoth]], British & American actress (d. [[1823]])