Editing 1756 (section)

== Births ==
* [[January 19]] – [[Guillaume-Antoine Olivier]], French entomologist (d. [[1814]])
[[File:Croce-Mozart-Detail.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]]]
* [[January 27]] – [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], Austrian composer (d. [[1791]])
* [[February 20]] – [[Angelica Schuyler Church]], American socialite, daughter of Genl.[[Philip Schuyler]], sister to [[Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton]] (d. [[1814]])
* [[March 3]] – [[William Godwin]], English writer (d. [[1836]])
* [[March 4]] – Sir [[Henry Raeburn]], Scottish painter (d. [[1823]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) |url=https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-a-z/raeburn-henry |website=National Records of Scotland |access-date=24 June 2022 |language=English |date=31 May 2013}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] – [[Singu Min]], king of Myanmar (k. [[1782]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Ignaz Aurelius Fessler]], Hungarian-born court councillor, minister to Czar Alexander I of Russia (d. [[1839]])
* [[May 27]] – King [[Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria]] (d. [[1825]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Abbé Faria]], Luso-Goan Catholic monk, student of hypnotism (d. [[1819]])
* [[June 6]] – [[John Trumbull]], American painter (d. [[1843]])
* [[June 20]] – [[Joseph Martin Kraus]], German-Swedish composer (d. [[1792]])
* [[July 7]] – [[Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm]], Swedish statesman (d. [[1813]])
* [[July 31]] – [[Dheeran Chinnamalai]], Tamil king (d. [[1805]])
* [[August 1]] – [[Pierre Louis Prieur]], French politician (d. [[1827]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde]], Austrian field marshal, statesman (d. [[1845]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Willem Bilderdijk]], Dutch author (d. [[1831]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Benedikte Naubert]], German writer (d. [[1819]])
* [[September 23]] – [[John Loudon McAdam]], Scottish engineer, road-builder (d. [[1836]])
* [[October 21]] – [[Philippine Engelhard]], German writer, scholar (d. [[1831]])
* [[November 3]] – [[Pierre Laromiguière]], French philosopher (d. [[1837]])
* [[December 7]] – [[John Littlejohn (preacher)|John Littlejohn]], British-American sheriff and Methodist preacher (d. [[1836]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Andrews |first=Dee E. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7ssfd |title=The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |year=2000 |jstor=j.ctt7ssfd |isbn=9780691092980 |access-date=November 20, 2023 |archive-date=November 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120183703/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7ssfd |url-status=live }}</ref>
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** [[Maria Pellegrina Amoretti]], [[Italy|Italian]] lawyer (d. [[1787]])
** [[Gideon Morris]], [[trans-Appalachia]]n pioneer (d. [[1798]])
** [[Hilchen Sommerschild]], Norwegian educator (d. [[1831]])