Editing 1766 (section)

== Births ==
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Magdalena Rudenschöld]], Swedish conspirator (d. [[1823]]) 
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Nguyễn Du]], Vietnamese poet (d. [[1820]])
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia]], Supreme Leader of Paraguay (d. [[1840]])
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Joseph Kinghorn]], Particular Baptist Minister (d. [[1832]])
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Henry Fourdrinier]], British engineer, inventor (d. [[1854]]) 
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Thomas Malthus]], English demographer, economist (d. [[1834]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Laurence Urdang Associates|title=Lives of the Georgian Age, 1714-1837|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=48YZAAAAYAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Barnes & Noble Books|isbn=978-0-06-494332-1|page=290}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Samuel Wesley (composer, born 1766)|Samuel Wesley]], English organist and composer (died [[1837]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Olleson|title=Samuel Wesley: The Man and His Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mqepxo39ow0C&pg=PA1|year=2003|publisher=Boydell Press|isbn=978-1-84383-031-3|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[April 1]] – [[François-Xavier Fabre]], French painter of historical subjects (d. [[1837]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Denison Champlin|author2=Charles Callahan Perkins|title=Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ldShAAAAMAAJ|year=1913|publisher=C. Scribner's sons|page=36}}</ref>
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Charles-Louis de Fourcroy]], French Consul at [[A Coruña]], Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (d. [[1824]]) 
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Anne Louise Germaine de Staël]], French author (d. [[1817]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Tracy Chevalier|title=Encyclopedia of the Essay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJtz0iWO4O4C&pg=PA809|year=1997|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-884964-30-5|pages=809}}</ref>
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Isaac D'Israeli]], English literary scholar (died [[1848]])<ref>{{cite book|author=James Ogden|title=Isaac D'Israeli|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i6APAAAAMAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Clarendon P.|isbn=978-0-19-811714-8|page=6}}</ref>
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Robert Darwin]], medical doctor and father of [[Charles Darwin]] (d. [[1848]])
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Jean-Frédéric Waldeck]], French cartographer (d. [[1875]])
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Dominique Jean Larrey]], French surgeon, innovator in battlefield medicine (d. [[1842]])
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[Jacob Perkins]], American physicist, inventor and engineer (d. [[1849]])
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[Thomas Charles Hope]], Scottish chemist, discoverer of strontium (d. [[1844]])
[[File:Wollaston William Hyde Jackson color.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William Hyde Wollaston]]]]
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[William Hyde Wollaston]], English chemist (d. [[1828]])
[[File:John Dalton by Charles Turner.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Dalton]]]]
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[John Dalton]], English chemist and physicist (d. [[1844]])<ref>{{cite book|author=William Charles Henry|title=Memoirs of the Life and Scientific Researches of John Dalton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S_Wapf8j6vwC&pg=PA1|year=1854|publisher=Cavendish Society|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu]], Prime Minister of France (d. [[1822]])
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[John de Barth Walbach|John Walbach]], French baron and officer in the [[United States Army]], with a military career spanning over 57 years (d. [[1857]])
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy]], French marshal (d. [[1847]])
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[Joseph Radetzky von Radetz]], Austrian field marshal (d. [[1858]])
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Edward Abbott (jurist)|Edward Abbott]], Australian soldier, politician and judge (d. [[1832]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Daniel Sykes]], English politician (d. [[1832]])
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Rodolphe Kreutzer]], violinist and composer (d. [[1831]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Bertil van Boer|title=Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1GchjwmUnmoC&pg=PA320|date=5 April 2012|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7386-5|pages=320}}</ref>
* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[Barbara Fritchie]], U.S. patriot in the Civil War (d. [[1862]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Hisinger]], Swedish physicist and chemist (d. [[1852]])<ref>{{cite book|title=World Who's who in Science: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CZNNAQAAIAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Marquis-Who's Who, Incorporated|page=808}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Charles Macintosh]], Scottish inventor of a [[waterproof fabric]] (died [[1843]])<ref>{{cite book|author=George Macintosh|title=Biographical Memoir of the Late Charles Macintosh ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yd0AAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1|year=1847|publisher=W.G. Blackie & Company|pages=1}}</ref>
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Lolotte Forssberg]], Swedish courtier (d. [[1840]])