France to plant new vineyards, for impressing him with the quality of his cognac. Births January 21 – Ethan Allen, American patriot (d. 1789) February 6 – Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795) April 12 – Padre Francisco Garcés, Spanish missionary (d. 1781) April 14 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809) May 27 – Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796) May 28 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d. 1814) June 4 – King George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1820) July 3 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815) July 20 – Darejan Dadiani, Georgian queen consort (d. 1807) July 22 – Anne d'Yves, writer, participant in the Brabant Revolution (d. 1814) August 13 – Scott Jamieson Dexter, classical musician (d. 1814) August 28 – Etteilla, French occult cartomancer (d. 1791) September 25 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789) October 11 – Arthur Phillip, British admiral and Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814) October 18 – Andrei Bolotov, Russian agriculturalist and memoirist (d. 1833) October 29 – Charles Spalding, Scottish inventor and underwater diver (d. 1783) November 15 – William Herschel, German-born astronomer (d. 1822) December 31 – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (d. 1805) Deaths January 6 – Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist (b. 1663) January 24 – Samuel Andrew, American Congregational clergyman, educator (b. 1656) January 27 – Marie Wulf, Danish pietist leader (b. 1685) January 30 – Benoît de Maillet, French diplomat and natural historian (b. 1656) February 9 – Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine, Abbess of Remiremont (b. 1662) February 15 – Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684) February 27 – Henry Grove, English nonconformist minister (b. 1684) March 16 – George Bähr, German architect (b. 1666) March 25 – Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670) April 9 – Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1657) May 1 – Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (b. c. 1669) May 15 – Sir John Chesshyre, English lawyer (b. 1662) June 5 – Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659) June 21 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English politician (b. 1674) July 8 – Jean-Pierre Nicéron, French encyclopedist (b. 1685) July 28 – Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg (b. 1661) September 23 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist, physician