Editing 1759 (section)

== Births ==
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Robert Burns]], Scottish poet (d. [[1796]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Robert Burns (1759-1796) |url=https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-a-z/burns-robert |website=National Records of Scotland |access-date=27 January 2023 |language=English |date=31 May 2013}}</ref>
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc]], French botanist (d. [[1828]]) 
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Friedrich August Wolf]], German philologist, archaeologist (d. [[1824]])
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Claude Lecourbe]], French general (d. [[1815]])
* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[August Wilhelm Iffland]], German actor (d. [[1814]])
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[James Freeman (clergyman)|James Freeman]], first clergyman in America to call himself a Unitarian (d. [[1835]])
[[File:Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie (c. 1797).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Mary Wollstonecraft]]]]
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Mary Wollstonecraft]], English [[feminist]] author (d. [[1797]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Mary Wollstonecraft {{!}} Biography, Works, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Wollstonecraft |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Maria Theresia von Paradis]], Austrian musician, composer (d. [[1824]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[William Thornton]], American architect (d. [[1828]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Joseph Fouché]], French statesman (d. [[1820]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[William Pitt the Younger]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1806]])<ref>{{cite web |title=History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/william-pitt |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=1 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Alexander J. Dallas (statesman)|Alexander J. Dallas]], American statesman and financier (d. [[1817]])
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[William Plumer]], American lawyer, Baptist lay preacher, and politician (d. [[1850]])
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Nathan Read]], American engineer and politician (d. [[1849]])
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Ignaz Anton von Indermauer]], Austrian nobleman and government official (d. [[1796]])
[[File:William wilberforce.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William Wilberforce]]]]
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[William Wilberforce]], British abolitionist (d. [[1833]])
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Lemuel Cook]], [[American Revolutionary War]] veteran, [[centenarian]] (d. [[1866]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[William Kirby (entomologist)|William Kirby]], English entomologist (d. [[1850]])
* [[October 25]] 
** [[Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg]], empress of [[Paul I of Russia]] (d. [[1828]])
** [[William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1834]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Georges Danton]], French Revolutionary leader (d. [[1794]])
[[File:Friedrich Schiller by Ludovike Simanowiz.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Friedrich Schiller]]]]
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Schiller]], German writer (d. [[1805]])
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Franz Krommer]], Czech composer (d. [[1831]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Felipe Enrique Neri]], legislator and colonizer of Texas (d. [[1820]])
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[James Edward Smith (botanist)|James Edward Smith]], English botanist (d. [[1828]])
* Date unknown – [[Maria Petraccini]], Italian anatomist, physician (d. [[1791]])
** [[Salomea Deszner]], Polish actress, singer and theater director (d. [[1806]])
** [[Alice Flowerdew]], British teacher, religious poet, hymnwriter (d. [[1830]])