1787) April April 4 Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer (d. 1837) Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, Swiss artist (d. 1809) April 5 – Sébastien Érard, German-born French instrument maker (d. 1831) April 6 – Meno Haas, German-born copperplate engraver (d. 1833) April 9 – Rudolph Zacharias Becker, German educator and author (d. 1822) April 17 – John Austin, Scottish inventor (d. 1830) April 18 – Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 9th Baronet (d. 1794) April 19 John Henniker-Major, 2nd Baron Henniker, British politician (d. 1821) Friederike Brion, first great love of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (d. 1813) April 21 Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait, French engineer (d. 1807) Humphry Repton, English garden designer (d. 1818) April 23 – John Willett Payne, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1803) April 28 – Matsumura Goshun, Japanese artist (d. 1811) May May 4 John Brooks (governor), Massachusetts doctor, military officer, governor (d. 1825) François Adriaan van der Kemp, Dutch politician (d. 1829) May 5 – Johann Tobias Mayer, German physicist (d. 1830) May 9 – Johann Anton Leisewitz, German lawyer and dramatic poet (d. 1806) May 9 – Antonio Scarpa, Italian anatomist (d. 1832) May 10 Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, First Queen of Saxony/Duchess of Warsaw (d. 1828) Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville, French general (d. 1821) May 11 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840) May 13 – Michael Hughes, Welsh industrialist (d. 1825) May 14 Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828) Timothy Dwight IV, American academic, educator (d. 1817) Juliane Reichardt, German-born Bohemian pianist, singer and composer (d. 1783) May 17 – Thomas Boude, American politician (d. 1822) May 20 Charles-Louis Antiboul, French Girondist politician (d. 1793) May 22 – Louis Legendre, French politician of the Revolution period (d. 1797) May 24 Oliver Cromwell, African-American soldier (d. 1853) May 26 Antoine Brice, Belgian painter (d. 1817) William Badger, master shipbuilder operating in Kittery, Maine (d. 1830) May 28 – Robert Carr Brackenbury, English Methodist preacher (d. 1818) May 29 – Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth, British diplomat (d. 1825) May 31 – John Marsh, English music composer (d. 1828) June June 5 George Burder, English Nonconformist divine (d. 1832) Hardy Murfree, American soldier (d. 1809) June 6 – John Gabriel Jones, Kentucky pioneer and statesman (d. 1776) June 8 – Sir James Lamb, 1st Baronet of England (d. 1824) June 11 Christian Graf von Haugwitz, German statesman (d. 1832) Eliphalet Pearson, American educator (d. 1826) June 13 – Fanny