the mouth of Buffalo Creek. Rudjer Boscovich publishes his atomic theory, in . A fire destroys parts of Christiania, Norway. Marquis Gabriel de Lernay, a French officer captured during the Seven Years' War, establishes a military lodge in Berlin, with the help of Baron de Printzen, master of The Three Globes Lodge at Berlin, and Philipp Samuel Rosa, a disgraced former pastor. Okadaya (岡田屋), predecessor of AEON, a multiple retailer group, founded in Yokkaichi, Japan. J. R. Geigy, predecessor of Novartis, a global pharmaceutical brand, founded in Basel, Switzerland. Births January 6 – Charles Ganilh, French economist, politician (d. 1836) January 9 – George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (d. 1833) January 11 – François Louis Bourdon, French Revolutionary politician (d. 1797) January 17 – Marie Anne Simonis, Belgian textile industrialist (d. 1831) January 20 – Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, French chemist (d. 1836) January 24 – Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (d. 1844) February 1 David Ochterlony, Massachusetts-born general with the East India Company (d. 1825) February 3 Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier of Great Britain (d. 1823) Vasily Kapnist, Ukrainian poet, playwright (d. 1823) February 4 – George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley (d. 1818) February 10 – Amalia Holst, German writer, intellectual, and feminist (d. 1829) February 17 – John Pinkerton, British antiquarian (d. 1826) February 28 – Nicolas François, Count Mollien, French financier (d. 1850) March 9 – Franz Joseph Gall, German pioneering neuroanatomist (d. 1828) March 12 – Leopold Karel, Count of Limburg Stirum (d. 1840) March 15 – Magdalene Sophie Buchholm, Norwegian poet (d. 1826) April 4 John Hoppner, English portrait-painter (d. 1810) Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French painter (d. 1823) April 16 – Christian Karl August Ludwig von Massenbach, Prussian soldier (d. 1827) April 22 – Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén, Spanish general (d. 1852) April 23 Alexander Hood, British Royal Navy officer (k. 1798) Alexander Cochrane, British Royal Navy officer (d. 1832) Philip Gidley King, British Royal Navy officer, colonial administrator (d. 1808) April 27 – Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix, French zoologist (d. 1830) April 28 – James Monroe, fifth President of the United States (d. 1831) April 29 – Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish officer, general and war hero (d. 1820) April 30 Emmanuel Vitale, Maltese military leader (d. 1802) Jane West, English writer (d. 1852) May 6 Maximilien de Robespierre, French revolutionary (d. 1794) André Masséna, Napoleonic general, Marshal of France