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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1760 January 10 Birth of Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg composer. [1] January 19 Birth of Melchor Lopez Jimenez composer. [1] January 20 Birth of Charles III king of Spain (1759-88). [1] January 30 Birth of Franz Xaver Partsch composer. [1] February 12 Birth of Jan Ladislav Dussek Bohemia, pianist/composer. [1] February 14 Birth of Richard Allen Philadelphia Pennsylvania, first black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church. [1] February 15 Birth of Jean-François Le Sueur composer. [1] March 2 Birth of Camille Desmoulins France, journalist/pamphleteer/revolution leader. [1] March 27 Birth of Ishmail Spicer composer. [1] Birth of MJ Auguste Vestrius French ballet dancers. [1] March 28 Birth of Thomas Clarkson English abolitionist (Negro Emancipation). [1] April 12 Birth of Juan Manuel Olivares composer. [1] May 10 Birth of Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle soldier/author/composer (Marseillaise). [1] Birth of J P Hebel writer. [1] October 1 Birth of William Beckford British writer (Epsiodes of Vathek). [1] December 2 Birth of Joseph Graetz composer. [1] December 18 Birth of Knud L Rahbek Danish literary (Om sku skuespillerkunsten). [1] 1761 January 17 Birth of James Hall Scotland, geologist. [1] January 20 Birth of Giovanni Domenico Perotti composer. [1] January 23 Birth of Friedrich von Matthison German poet (Adelaide). [1] January 29 Birth of Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin Switzerland, US minister of Finance (1801-14). [1] February 22 Birth of Erik Eriksson Tulindberg composer. [1] Birth of Jacob Kimball composer. [1] March 6 Birth of Earl d'Andréossi French General/member of parliament. [1] March 23 Birth of John W de Winter Dutch Vice-Admiral (Battle at Kamperduin). [1] April 20 Birth of Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier composer. [1] May 13 Birth of Adrian Loosjes Pzn publisher/writer (Mauritius Lijnslager). [1] May 16 Birth of John Opie artist. [1] June 3 Birth of Henry Scrapnel English inventor (shrapnel shell). [1] November 20 Birth of Pius VIII 253rd Roman Catholic pope (1829-30). [1] December 7 Birth of Madame [Marie Grosholtz] Tussaud created wax museum. [1] December 22 Birth of Dorothea Jordan Ireland, French comedic actress. [1] December 24 Birth of Selîm III poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808). [1] December 27 Birth of Michael A Barclay de Tolly Scottish/Russian minister of War. [1] 1762 January 5 Birth of Konstanze Weber in Zell, Austria (dies 1842); soprano, marries Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. [37] January 20 Birth of Jerome-Joseph de Momigny composer. [1] January 21 Birth of Giuseppe Antonio Silvani composer. [1] January 23 Birth of Christian A Vulpius Germany, writer (Rinaldo Rinaldini). [1] February 19 Birth of Friedrich Franz Hurka composer. [1] March 7 Birth of Sebastiaan C Nederburgh director-general (East Indies Company). [1] March 24 Birth of Marcos Antonio da Fonseca Portugal, opera composer (Portogallo). [1] March 25 Birth of Francesco Giuseppi Pollini composer. [1] April 4 Birth of Stephen Storace composer. [1] April 13 Birth of Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis Dutch actress (Phaedra, Lady Macbeth). [1] Birth of Karl Friedrich Horn composer. [1] April 14 Birth of Giuseppe Valadier Italian architect/archaeologist. [1] May 19 Birth of Johann G Fichte German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre). [1] August 12 Birth of George IV king of England (1820-30). [1] November 1 Birth of Spencer Perceval (Tory), British Prime Minister (1809-12). [1] December 26 Birth of Franz Wilhelm Tausch composer. [1] 1763 January 3 Birth of Joseph Fesch French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator. [1] January 20 Birth of Theobald Wolfe Tone Irish patriot. [1] January 26 Birth of Charles XIV French marshall, king of Sweden and Norway (1818-44). [1] January 29 Birth of J G Seume writer. [1] February 1 Birth of Thomas Campbell founder (Church of Disciples in America). [1] February 3 Birth of Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author. [1] February 19 Birth of Adalbert Gyrowetz composer. [1] February 20 Birth of Adalbert Gyrowetz composer. [1] March 6 Birth of Jean Xavier Lefevre composer. [1] March 21 Birth of Jean Paul writer. [1] April 2 Birth of Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari composer. [1] April 7 Birth of Domenico Dragonetti composer. [1] May 4 Birth of Franz Stanislaus Spindler composer. [1] May 7 Birth of Josef Poniatovski Polish general/marshal of France. [1] May 8 Birth of John Goldberg Dutch patriot/statesman. [1] May 16 Birth of Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium). [1] June 23 Birth of Joséphine Martinique, empress of France. [1] June 26 Birth of George Morland England, artist of rural landscapes. [1] July 17 Birth of John Jacob Astor Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader. [1] July 31 Birth of James Kent Fredericksburgh New York, legal scholar (Columbia). [1] August 8 Birth of Charles Bulfinch Boston Massachusetts, first US pro architect (Mass State House). [1] December 23 Birth of John Davy composer. [1] December 25 Birth of Claude Chappe French engineer (optical telegraph). [1] December 28 Birth of John Molson; founded Montréal brewery (Molson Canadian). [1] [5] 1764 January 1 Birth of John Kinker Dutch linguist/philosopher/poet (Minderjarige Zangster). [1] February 4 Birth of Carel H Verhuell Dutch/French Vice-Admiral/minister of Navy. [1] February 7 Birth of Ann Radcliffe London, Gothic novelist (Mysteries of Udolpho). [1] February 8 Birth of Joseph Leopold von Eybler Austrian composer. [1] February 11 Birth of Marie-Joseph de Chénier French poet (Cajus Graechus). [1] February 15 Birth of Jens I Baggesen Danish writer/linguist (Danske V'rker). [1] February 22 Birth of Alexander Campbell composer. [1] February 28 Birth of Robert Haldane Scottish theologist/philanthropist. [1] March 13 Birth of Charles Earl Grey (Whig), British Prime Minister (1830-34). [1] April 3 Birth of John Abernethy London, surgeon. [1] April 12 Birth of Dirk van den Boetzelaer regent of Holland. [1] April 18 Birth of Bernhard Anselm Weber pianist/conductor/composer. [1] May 1 Birth of Benjamin Henry Latrobe engineer/architect (built Capitol). [1] Birth of Gottfried Rieger composer. [1] May 3 Birth of Elisabeth PMH princess of France/son of king Louis XVI. [1] May 15 Birth of Johann Nepomuk Kalcher composer. [1] May 20 Birth of J Gottfried Schadow German sculptor/cartoonist/lithographer. [1] June 19 Birth of José Gervasio Artigas general/father of Uruguay. [1] Birth of Sir John Barrow England, founded Royal Geographical Society. [1] July 9 Birth of Ann Ward Radcliffe English Gothic novelist (The Italian). [1] December 10 Birth of Louis-Sebastien Lebrun composer. [1] December 22 Birth of Barbara Juliane Krudener Latvia, mystic visionary renounced nobility. [1] 1765 March 4 Birth of Charles Dibdin England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized). [1] March 6 Birth of Jan Kops Dutch agronomist/vicar. [1] March 7 Birth of Joseph N Niépce French inventor (photography). [1] March 18 Birth of David H Chassé Dutch baron/General (fought Napoleon at Waterloo). [1] March 21 Birth of Henry Fagel Dutch/English baron/diplomat. [1] March 27 Birth of Franz Xaver von Baader German philosopher/theologist. [1] May 28 Birth of Jean Baptiste Cartier composer. [1] August 21 Birth of William IV king of England (1830-37). [1] November 14 Birth of Robert Fulton built first commercial steamboat (or 0819). [1] December 8 Birth of Eli Whitney inventor (Cotton Gin). [1] December 10 Birth of [Izaäk J] Alexander Gogel Dutch minister of Finance/patriot. [1] December 15 Birth of Philippe-Jacques Pfeffinger composer. [1] December 25 Birth of Joseph Mazzinghi composer. [1] 1766 January 10 Birth of Louis Massonneau composer. [1] January 22 Birth of Antoine-Vincent Arnault French writer (Les Vénitiens). [1] January 25 Birth of Hans Freiherr von Gagern German advisor to Dutch king Willem I. [1] February 13 Birth of Thomas Malthus Rookery in Surrey, Great Britain, economist/demographer/population expert (Law of Malthus). [1] February 24 Birth of Samuel Wesley Bristol England, composer/organist (Exultate Deo). [1] March 28 Birth of Joseph Weigl Austria composer/conductor (Emmeline). [1] April 15 Birth of Friedrich Bouterwek German philosopher/critic. [1] April 22 Birth of Madame de Stael Swiss-French belle-lettrist (An Extraordinary Woman). [1] April 24 Birth of Robert Bailey Thomas founded Farmer's Almanac. [1] September 6 Birth of John Dalton chemist, developed atomic theory of matter. [1] September 25 Birth of Armand-Emmanuel duc de Richelieu, French Prime Minister (1815-18, 1820-21). [1] November 16 Birth of Rodolphe Kreutzer France, composer/virtuoso violinist (Paris Conserv). [1] 1767 January 8 Birth of Abraham de Veer Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1822-28). [1] January 24 Birth of Antony CW Staring Dutch lawyer/poet (Jaromir). [1] February 4 Birth of Johann Franz Volkert composer. [1] March 13 Birth of Heinrich Domnich composer. [1] March 15 Birth of Andrew Jackson Waxhaw South Carolina, General/(Democrat) 7th President (1829-37). [1] March 19 Birth of Leonhard von Call composer. [1] March 22 Birth of Cornelis T Elout Dutch minister of Finance. [1] March 25 Birth of Joachim Murat marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15). [1] April 27 Birth of Andreas Jakob Romberg German violinist/composer (Song of the Clock). [1] April 30 Birth of Jean Henri Appelius lawyer/minister of Finance. [1] May 24 Birth of Joseph Ignaz Schnabel composer. [1] May 25 Birth of Ferdinand Franzl composer. [1] Birth of Friedrich Johann Eck composer. [1] June 15 Birth of Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson first lady. [1] July 11 Birth of John Quincy Adams Braintree, Massachusetts, 6th President (Democrat) (1825-1829). [1] December 22 Birth of Andreas Hofer South Tirol, military leader (fought Napoleon's France). [1] December 29 Birth of Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne composer. [1] 1768 January 10 Birth of James Varicick first AME Zion Bishop. [1] January 28 Birth of Frederick VI Danish king (1808-39); lost Norway to Sweden (1814). [1] February 4 Birth of Maurits C van Hall Dutch ruler of Heicop and Boeicop, lawyer/politician. [1] February 12 Birth of Francis II Florence Italy, last Holy Roman emperor (1792-1806). [1] February 13 Birth of Édouard Mortier French general, duke, prime minister (1834-35). [1] February 15 Birth of Jozef B Cannaert [Olim], Flemish lawyer. [1] March 12 Birth of Carolus Antonius Fodor composer. [1] March 13 Birth of Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg Dutch civil servant. [1] March 21 Birth of Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier mathematician/Egyptologist. [1] April 7 Birth of Karl Theodor Toeschi composer. [1] April 19 Birth of Adrian H Haworth English entomologist/botanist. [1] May 2 Birth of Jean-Louis M Alibert French dermatologist. [1] May 17 Birth of Caroline Brunswick, Queen Consort of King George IV. [1] May 20 Birth of Dolley Dandridge Payne Madison; US first lady (1809-17) (dies 1849). [1] [5] June 30 Birth of Elizabeth Kortright Monroe first lady. [1] July 27 Birth of Charlotte Corday assassin of Jean-Paul Marat. [1] September 4 Birth of François René de Chateaubriand France, poet/novelist/statesman. [1] December 6 Birth of Johann Baptist Henneberg composer. [1] December 22 Birth of John Crome [Old Crome] English landscape painter/etcher. [1] 1769 January 5 Birth of Jean Baptiste Say French economist (Political Economics). [1] January 10 Birth of Michel Ney French marshal (Waterloo). [1] January 17 Birth of Ole Andreas Lindeman composer. [1] February 4 Birth of Samuel I Wiselius Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer. [1] March 2 Birth of DeWitt Clinton (Governor/Senator-New York). [1] March 7 Birth of Josef Alois Ladurner composer. [1] March 23 Birth of William Smith geologist (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils). [1] March 25 Birth of Salvatore Vigano composer. [1] April 11 Birth of Johann Georg Lickl composer. [1] April 12 Birth of Giovanni Agostino Perotti composer. [1] April 24 Birth of Arthur Wellesley General/Duke of Wellington. [1] April 25 Birth of Mark Isambard Brunel engineer/inventor. [1] May 1 Birth of Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, British Prime Minister (Conservative) (1828-30). [1] May 4 Birth of Charles Hague composer. [1] May 6 Birth of Ferdinand III archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane. [1] May 7 Birth of Giuseppe Farinelli composer. [1] May 10 Birth of Jean Lannes duc de Montebello, Marshal of France. [1] May 13 Birth of Joâo VI King of Portugal (1816-26). [1] August 15 Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte resident of Elba (emperor 1804-13, 1814-15). [1] October 13 Birth of Horace H Hayden cofounded first dental college. [1]