British admiral, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825) c. August 11 – Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver (d. 1828) September 10 – John Soane, English architect (d. 1837) October 27 – Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette, French general (d. 1794) November 6 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (d. 1823) November 20 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815) November 25 – Robert Townsend, member of the Culper Spy Ring (d. 1838) December 3 – Samuel Crompton, English inventor (d. 1827) date unknown'' Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros, Spanish bishop (d. 1821) John Haggin, "Indian fighter", one of the earliest settlers of Kentucky (d. 1825) Quang Trung, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1792) Phillis Wheatley, African-born American poet (d. 1784) Deaths January 11 – Sir Hans Sloane, Irish-born physician and collector (b. 1660) January 14 – George Berkeley, Irish-born philosopher and bishop (b. 1685) January 23 – Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, French royal princess, saloniste (b. 1676) February 16 – Giacomo Facco, Italian composer (b. 1676) February 22 – Eleonore of Löwenstein-Wertheim, German countess (b. 1686) May 23 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Polish dramatist (b. 1705) June 7 – Archibald Cameron of Locheil, last Scottish Jacobite to be executed for treason (b. 1707) June 10 – Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt, German architect (b. 1678) August 5 – Charlotta Elisabeth van der Lith, politically active Governor's wife in Surinam (b. 1700) August 6 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711) August 19 – Balthasar Neumann, German architect and military engineer (b. 1687) September 20 – Johann Georg Weishaupt, German lawyer (b. 1716) October 12 – Sir Danvers Osborn, 3rd Baronet, British politician and governor of the Province of New York (b. 1715) October 26 – Margareta von Ascheberg, Swedish land owner, countess and acting regimental colonel (b. 1671) November 9 – Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1719-1753) (b. 1685) November 10 – Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, French naval officer and governor of Isle de France (Mauritius) (b. 1699) November 22 – Samuel-Jacques Bernard, French nobility (b. 1686) December 4 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (b. 1694) December 25 – Godolphin Arabian, Yemeni-foaled English thoroughbred stallion (b. c. 1724) SQL SQL server has a minimum date value of 1/1/1753. References SQL