(d. 1858) September 17 – Jonathan Alder, American settler (d. 1849) October 4 – Harriet Auber, English poet, hymnist (d. 1862) October 6 – Louis Philippe I, King of the French (d. 1850) November 6 – Henry Hunt, British politician (d. 1835) November 24 – Shadrach Bond, American politician and the first governor of Illinois (d. 1832) December 9 – Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, French general, diplomat (d. 1827) December 17 – Sylvain Charles Valée, Marshal of France (d. 1846) December 21 – Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (d. 1858) December 27 – Sir George Cayley, English aviation pioneer (d. 1857) Unknown – Johann Gottfried Arnold, German cellist (d. 1806) Unknown – Kyra Frosini, Greek heroine (d. 1800) Unknown – Isabel Zendal, Spanish nurse Unknown'' – Anna Moór, Hungarian actress (d. 1841) Deaths January 1 – Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1711) January 21 – Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689) January 23 Manuel Pinto da Fonseca, 68th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1681) Pieter van Reede van Oudtshoorn, Dutch administrator of the Cape Colony (b. 1714) February 20 – King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701) March 1 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (b. 1700) March 24 Stephen Leake, English numismatist, officer of arms at the College of Arms in London (b. 1702) Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman and man of letters (b. 1694) March 20 – Gottlieb Heinrich Totleben, German noble (b. 1715) May 8 – Ali Bey Al-Kabir, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (b. 1728) May 15 – Alban Butler, English Catholic priest, writer (b. 1710) May 28 – John Wayles, American lawyer and planter (b. 1715) June 21 – Jorge Juan y Santacilia, Spanish geodesist (b. 1713) June 27 – Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. c. 1706) July 5 – Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian, philologist (b. 1719) July 12 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist, composer (b. 1697) July 23 – George Edwards, English ornithologist and naturalist (b. 1694) July 25 – Axel Löwen, Swedish duke (b. 1686) August 3 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700) August 19 Burkat Shudi, English harpsichord maker (b. 1702) Francesco Zahra, Maltese painter (b. 1710) August 20 – Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701) September 23 – Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718) October 14 – Septimanie d'Egmont, French salonist (b. 1740) October