Editing 1771 (section)

== Births ==
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Hanne Tott]], Danish circus artist, circus manager (d. [[1826]])
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Antoine-Jean Gros]], French painter (d. [[1835]])
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Clauren]], German author (d. [[1854]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Germanos III of Old Patras]], Greek Metropolitan Bishop of [[Patras]] (d. [[1826]])
* [[April 3]] – [[Hans Nielsen Hauge]], Norwegian revivalist, entrepreneur (d. [[1824]])
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Richard Trevithick]], English inventor (d. [[1833]])
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg]], Austrian field marshal (d. [[1820]])
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Jean Rapp]], French general (d. [[1821]])
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Cajsa Wahllund]], Finnish restaurateur (d. [[1843]])
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Laskarina Bouboulina]], Greek independence heroine (d. [[1825]])
[[File:Portrait of Robert Owen.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Robert Owen]]]]
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Robert Owen]], Welsh social reformer (d. [[1858]])
* [[May 16]] &ndash; [[Louis Henri Loison]], French general (d. [[1816]])
[[File:Ernest Augustus I of Hanover.PNG|thumb|right|110px|[[Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover]]]]
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover]] (d. [[1851]])
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Éleuthère Irénée du Pont]], French-American chemist, industrialist (d. [[1834]]) 
* [[August 15]] &ndash; Sir [[Walter Scott]], [[List of Scottish novelists|Scottish novelist]], poet (d. [[1832]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=Edinburgh University Library  |title=Homes of Sir Walter Scott |url=http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/biography/homes.html |publisher=[[Edinburgh University Library]] |date=22 October 2004 |access-date=21 October 2021 | language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen|Archduke Charles of Austria]], Austrian general, statesman (d. [[1847]])
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Mungo Park (explorer)|Mungo Park]], Scottish explorer (d. [[1806]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Park | first = Mungo | title = Travels in the interior districts of Africa | publisher = Wordsworth | location = Ware | year = 2002 | isbn = 9781840226010 | page=viii|language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Johann August Apel]], German writer, jurist (d. [[1816]])
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Emperor Kōkaku]] of Japan (d. [[1840]])
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]] (d. [[1815]])
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Jean-Andoche Junot]], French general (d. [[1813]])
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Xavier Bichat]], French anatomist and pathologist (d. [[1802]])
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Regina von Siebold]], German physician and [[obstetrician]] (d. [[1849]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[William Johnson (judge)|William Johnson]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1834]])
* Unknown &ndash; [[William Lloyd (Methodist minister)|William Lloyd]], Welsh Anglican priest turned schoolteacher and Methodist preacher (d. [[1841]])