Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1818 February 28 – René Just Haüy, French "father of modern crystallography" (d. 1822) March – Joseph Brant, Mohawk leader (d. 1807) March 4 – Johann David Wyss, Swiss author (d. 1818) March 14 – Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (d. 1809) March 28 (March 17 O.S.) – Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, Russian princess, courtier and patron of the arts and sciences (d. 1810) April – Etta Palm d'Aelders, Dutch-French feminist (d. 1799) April 1 – Richard Butler American general (d. 1793) April 13 – Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, author of the Declaration of American Independence (d. 1826) May 14 – Louis Lebègue Duportail French military leader in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (d. 1802) May 17 – Seth Warner American revolutionary hero (d. 1784) May 20 – Toussaint Louverture, Haitian rebel (d. 1803) May 24 – Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary, doctor and scientist (d. 1793) June 2 – Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian Freemason (d. 1795) June 3 José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Spanish viceroy of Peru (d. 1821) Lucia Galeazzi Galvani, Italian scientist (d. 1788) August 7 - Susan Carnegie, writer and founder of the first public asylum in Scotland (d.1821) August 26 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794) September 11 – Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish painter (d. 1809) September 17 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher and political scientist (d. 1794) October 20 – François Chopart, French surgeon (1795) November 11 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist (d. 1828) December 1 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist, discoverer of uranium (1789), zirconium (1789) and cerium (1803) (d. 1817) December 23 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803) date unknown Károly Hadaly, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1834) Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Swedish botanist (d. 1782) Deaths January 3 – Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (b. 1657) January 29 – Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV (b. 1653) January 29 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658) February 1 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (b. 1657) February 7 – Lodovico Giustini, Italian composer (b. 1685) February 18 – Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667) March 22 – Emerentia von Düben, Swedish royal favorite (b. 1669) March 28 – Karl Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, German noble (b. 1712) April 4 – Daniel Neal, English