Hanover, New Hampshire, as John Wentworth, the Royal Governor, conveys a charter from King George III of Great Britain. December 22 – The Sino-Burmese War (1765–69) is ended by a truce. Date unknown The Authorized King James Version of the Bible is published in England in the Oxford standard text, edited by Benjamin Blayney.</onlyinclude> Births January 1 Marie Lachapelle, French obstetrician (d. 1821) Jane Marcet, British science writer (d. 1858) January 2 – Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator and writer (d. 1833) January 10 – Michel Ney, French marshal (d. 1815) February 23 – Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg; German regent and social reformer (d. 1820) March 1 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (d. 1796) March 2 – DeWitt Clinton, American politician and naturalist, 6th Governor of New York (d. 1828) March 4 – Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Egyptian ruler (d. 1849) March 10 – Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist, builder of the Williamson Tunnels (d. 1840) March 23 – William Smith, English geologist, cartographer (d. 1839) March 29 – Jean-de-Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851) April 3 – Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (d. 1835) April 9 – Jakob Heinrich Laspeyres, German lepidopterist (d. 1809) April 10 – Jean Lannes, French marshal (d. 1809) April 13 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter (d. 1830) April 14 – Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, French general (d. 1799) May 1 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1852) May 6 – Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824) June 5 – Marianne Kirchgessner, German musician (d. 1808) June 18 – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, British statesman, diplomat, and soldier (d. 1822) August 15 – Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor (d. 1821) August 23 – Georges Cuvier, French naturalist and zoologist; known as the Father of Paleontology (d. 1832) August 31 – David Hosack Amer. physician & botanist. A. Hamilton family doctor. September 14 Alexander von Humboldt, German explorer, scientist (d. 1859) Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (d. 1843) October 6 – Isaac Brock, British general, administrator (d. 1812) December 13 – James Scarlett Abinger, English judge (d. 1844) December 23 – Martin Archer Shee, Irish painter (d. 1850) December 26 – Ernst Moritz Arndt, German writer, poet (d. 1860) date unknown James Dadford, English canal engineer John Bellingham, assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (d.