- April 28
- Birth of Nikita P Panin Russian diplomat/minister of Foreign affairs. [1]
- April 30
- Birth of David Thompson English/Canadian explorer (Columbia River). [1]
- May 10
- Birth of Louis Nicholas Davout French field marshall (defeated Prussians). [1]
- June 7
- Birth of Earl of Liverpool (Conservative) British Prime Minister (1812-27). [1]
- August 1
- Birth of William Clark Charlottsville Virginia, second lieutenant of Lewis and Clark Expedition. [1]
- August 27
- Birth of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; German philosopher/inventor (dialectic). [1] [649.22]
- November 19
- Birth of Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen Copenhagen Denmark, sculptor (Dying Lion). [1]
- December 16
- Birth of Ludwig van Beethoven in Bonn (Germany), composer (Ode to Joy). [1]
- December 26
- Birth of Pierre earl de Cambronne French general (Waterloo, Elba). [1]
1771
- January 17
- Birth of Charles Brockden Brown father of American novel (Wieland). [1]
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- January 21
- Birth of Arnold A Buyskes Dutch Vice-Admiral/colonial director. [1]
- January 26
- Birth of Jacob Andries van Braam colonial director (Suriname). [1]
- March 10
- Birth of Georg F Creuzer German philological/historian (Idea und Probe). [1]
- March 22
- Birth of Heinrich D Zschokke Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf). [1]
- April 13
- Birth of Adam FJA van der Duyn Dutch Governorernor (South Holland). [1]
- Birth of Richard Trevithick Illogan Cornwall England, inventor (steam locomotive). [1]
- May 14
- Birth of Robert Owen England, factory owner/socialist. [1]
- June 12
- Birth of Patrick Gass Falling Springs Pennsylvania, sergeant of Lewis and Clark Expedition. [1]
- June 24
- Birth of E I Du Pont France, chemist/scientist (Du Pont). [1]
- August 15
- Birth of Walter Scott Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake). [1]
- November 6
- Birth of Alois Senefelder inventor (lithography). [1]
- November 11
- Birth of Ephraim McDowell surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery). [1]
- December 26
- Birth of Heinrich J von Collin Austria dramatist/poet (Regulus). [1]
1772
- February 9
- Birth of Frans Mikael Franzén Finnish-Swedish poet (Abo). [1]
- March 10
- Birth of Friedrich von Schlegel Germany, romantic writer/critic (Lucinde). [1]
- April 7
- Birth of F M Charles Fourier French socialist. [1]
- April 11
- Birth of Manuel José Quintana Spanish author/poet (El Duque de Viseo). [1]
- May 20
- Birth of William Congreve English officer (design fire rocket). [1]
- September 27
- Birth of Sándor Kisfaludy Hungary, poet/Austrian army (1793-1801). [1]
- October 21
- Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in England; poet (Rime of the Ancient Mariner) (dies 1834). [1] [5]
1773
- February 9
- Birth of William Henry Harrison in Charles City County, Virginia; 9th US President (1841). [1] [479.66]
- March 26
- Birth of Nathaniel Bowditch mathematician/astronomer/polyglot/author (Marine Sextant). [1]
- April 6
- Birth of James Mill Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India). [1]
- April 22
- Birth of Jean V baron de Rebecque Swiss/Dutch army leader. [1]
- April 24
- Birth of Harman W Muntinghe lawyer/Dutch colonial director. [1]
- May 3
- Birth of Giuseppe Acerbi Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat. [1]
- May 15
- Birth of Clemens L Metternich Austrian prince. [1]
- June 13
- Birth of Thomas Young proponent of the wave theory of light. [1]
- December 27
- Birth of George Cayley England, found science of aerodynamics. [1]
1774
- February 15
- Birth of W G Frederik prince of Orange. [1]
- February 17
- Birth of Raphaelle Peale US, painter (After the Rain-1823). [1]
- March 16
- Birth of Matthew Flinders English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia). [1]
- April 21
- Birth of Jean-Baptiste Biot French physicist/astronomer (balloonist). [1]
- April 28
- Birth of Francis Baily describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse. [1]
- May 7
- Birth of Francis Beaufort naval officer; devised wind force scale. [1]
- June 21
- Birth of Daniel D Tompkins (Democrat-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25). [1]
- August 12
- Birth of Robert Southey English poet laureate, biographer of Nelson. [1]
- August 14
- Birth of Meriwether Lewis Charlottsville Virginia, captain of Lewis and Clark Expedition. [1]
- August 28
- Birth of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton first American Catholic saint. [1]
- September 17
- Birth of Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti Cardinal/linguist (understood 70 languages). [1]
- September 26
- Birth of John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman (dies 1847). [1] [5]
- December 30
- Birth of Pieter G Witsen Geysbeek Dutch historian/literary [or December 31]. [1]
1775
- January 20
- Birth of Andre-Marie Ampere Lyon France, discovered electromagnetism. [1]
- January 27
- Birth of Friedrich von Schelling Germany, philosopher (Views on Christianity). [1]
- January 30
- Birth of Walter Savage Landor Warwick England, critic/writer (Imaginary Conversation). [1]
- February 5
- Birth of Margaretha J de Neufville author (Small Pligten). [1]
- February 9
- Birth of Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai Hungary, mathematician (parallel axiom). [1]
- February 12
- Birth of Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams wife of John Quincy Adams. [1]
- February 18
- Birth of Thomas Girtin London, artist/watercolorist. [1]
- April 7
- Birth of Francis C Lowell founded first raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill. [1]
- April 8
- Birth of Adam A earl von Neipperg Austrian General/Napoleon's wife Marie lover. [1]
- April 21
- Birth of Alexander Anderson US, engraver/illustrator (Shakespeare). [1]
- April 22
- Birth of Georg Hermes German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen). [1]
- April 23
- Birth of Joseph Mallord Turner England, landscape painter (Shipwreck). [1]
- May 21
- Birth of Lucien Bonaparte; prince of Canino/Musignano. [1]
- December 16
- Birth of Jane Austen in England; novelist (Pride and Prejudice). [1]
1776
- January 24
- Birth of Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann; German writer/judge/composer (Undine). [1]
- February 11
- Birth of Joannis Capodistrias; Greek Governor of Troezen (1827-31). [1]
- February 23
- Birth of John Walter II in London, England; chief proprietor (The London Times, 1812-47). [1]
- March 10
- Birth of Luise; queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III. [1]
- March 16
- Birth of Johan G Verstolk van Soelen; Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs. [1]
- April 26
- Birth of Joan M Kemper; Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book). [1]
- June 11
- Birth of John Constable in England; landscape painter (Hay Wain). [1]
- August 9
- Birth of Amedeo Avogadro in Tuin, Italy; 6.022 x 10 ^ 23 (Avogadro's Law). [1]
- November 14
- Birth of Henri Dutrochet; discovered and named process of osmosis. [1]
- December 29
- Birth of Charles Macintosh in Scotland; patented waterproof fabric. [1]
1777
- January 3
- Birth of M A Elisa Bonaparte; Corsican monarch of Lucca/Piombino. [1]
- January 25
- Birth of Elias Canneman; Dutch liberal minister of Finance (1813-14). [1]
- March 17
- Birth of Roger Brooke Taney in Calvert, Maryland; 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott decision). [1]
- March 19
- Birth of Anton R Falck; Dutch minister of Education/diplomat. [1]
- April 30
- Birth of Carl Friedrich Gauss in Brunswick (Germany); one of the world's great mathematicians (number theory, non-Euclidean geometry, gravitation). [1]
- May 9
- Birth of Zenas Crane; pioneer rag-content paper manufacturer, revolutionizes printing of paper money. [404.44]
- August 14
- Birth of Hans Christian Ørsted in Denmark; physicist/chemist (View of Chemical Law). [1]
- October 18
- Birth of Heinrich von Kleist in Germany; dramatist/poet (Penthesilea). [1]
- December 2
- Birth of Henry Doeff; colonialist (wrote Dutch-Japanese dictionary). [1]
- December 14
- Birth of Juan N Gallego; Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos the mayo). [1]
- December 23
- Birth of Aleksandr I P Romanov; Tsar of Russia (1801-25). [1]
1778
- January 24
- Birth of Charles F duke of Berry/son of French king Charles X. [1]
- January 31
- Birth of Franz Anton graaf von Kolowrat; Austrian premier of Bohemia (1848). [1]
- February 4
- Birth of Augustin P de Candolle; Swiss botanist (Théorie élémentaire). [1]
- February 6
- Birth of Ugo Foscolo in Italy; writer/poet (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis). [1]
- February 22
- Birth of Rembrandt Peale; portrait/historical painter (Court of Death). [1]
- February 25
- Birth of José Francisco de San Martín; liberated Argentina, Chile and Perú. [1]
- August 11
- Birth of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn; founder of turnverein (gymnastics) movement. [1]
- August 18
- Birth of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen; first to circumnavigate Antarctica. [1]
- August 20
- Birth of Bernardo O'Higgins; won independence for Chile. [1]
- December 15
- Birth of Godert AGP baron van der Capellen; Dutch Governor-General (Dutch-Indies). [1]
- December 17
- Birth of Humphrey Davy; discovered several chemical elements. [1]
- December 19
- Birth of Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte; daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. [1]
1779
- January 5
- Birth of Stephen Decatur; US naval hero (War of 1812). [1]
- Birth of Zebulon Montgomery Pike; explorer (Pike's Peak). [1]
- January 18
- Birth of Peter Roget; thesaurus fame/inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard). [1]
- February 5
- Birth of Frans van Campenhout; Belgian vocalist/composer (Brabançonne). [1]
- March 15
- Birth of William Lamb; Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister (1834, 1835-41, Whig party). [1]
- May 2
- Birth of John Galt in Scotland; novelist (Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd). [1]
- May 11
- Death of John Hart in Hopewell, New Jersey; New Jersey delegate to Second Continental Congress, voted for independence. [626.202]
- May 16
- Birth of John Draper; American bank note engraver. [406.88]
- July 15
- Birth of Clement Clarke Moore; US author ("'Twas the Night Before Xmas"). [1]
- August 1
- Birth of Francis Scott Key; composer ("Star-Spangled Banner"). [1]
- August 7
- Birth of Carl Ritter; cofounder of modern science of geography. [1]
- September 18
- Birth of Joseph Story in Massachusetts, USA; US Supreme Court justice (1812-45). [1]
- November 14
- Birth of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager in Denmark; poet (National Poet 1849). [1]
- December 18
- Birth of Joseph Grimaldi in England; pantomimist ("greatest clown in history"). [1]
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