19 – James Morris III, Continental Army officer from Connecticut (d. 1820) January 20 – Jean-Baptiste Radet, French playwright (d. 1830) January 22 Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington (d. 1838) January 24 – Muzio Clementi, Italian composer, pianist (d. 1832) January 29 Pierre Martin, French Navy officer, admiral (d. 1820) John Macleod, British Army general (d. 1833) January 31 – Gouverneur Morris, American diplomat, politician (d. 1815) February February 4 – Gerrit Paape, Dutch politician, writer (d. 1803) February 5 Anton Walter, Austrian piano maker (d. 1826) February 8 – Victurnien-Jean-Baptiste de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French general, politician (d. 1812) February 9 Ebenezer Sproat, Continental Army officer, pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1805) February 12 Josef Reicha (d. 1795) Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (d. 1821) February 13 Luise von Göchhausen, German lady in waiting (d. 1807) Giovanni Fabbroni, Italian scientist (d. 1822) February 16 – Friedrich Karl Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe, Austrian general (d. 1814) February 17 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (d. 1831) February 19 – Francesco Ruspoli, 3rd Prince of Cerveteri (d. 1829) February 19 – Simone Assemani, Italian orientalist (d. 1821) February 23 – Simon Knéfacz, Croatian writer (d. 1819) February 26 – James Winchester, American general and politician (d. 1826) February 27 – William Linn, American President of Queen's College) (d. 1808) March March 3 – Thomas Hardy (political reformer) (d. 1832) March 5 – Leendert Viervant the Younger, Dutch architect (d. 1801) March 8 Johann David Schoepff, German biologist (d. 1800) Robert Clifford, English cricketer (d. 1811) March 11 Sir Charles Hastings, 1st Baronet, British Army officer (d. 1823) Joseph Malboeuf, dit Beausoleil, Member of Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada (d. 1823) March 14 Claude-Jean Martin, French Navy officer (d. 1827) Jean-François-Auguste Moulin, member of the French Directory (d. 1810) March 16 – Antoine Joseph Santerre, French general (d. 1809) March 19 – Giuseppe Colucci, Italian historian of the Marche, writer (d. 1809) March 20 – Robert Newman, American sexton at the Old North Church in Boston (d. 1804) March 21 Maurice d'Elbée, French Royalist military officer (d. 1794) Mary Dixon Kies, American inventor, first recipient of a U.S. patent (d. 1837) March 23 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden, German pioneer in mining and metallurgy (d. 1815) March 24 – Antoine Joseph Gorsas, French publicist, politician (d. 1793) March 25 – Carlos Fitz-James Stuart, 4th Duke of Liria and Jérica, Spanish duke (d.