the Amazon basin begins to determine the boundary between the colonial possessions in South America; it continues until 1795. Births January 5 – Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820) January 18 – Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869) February 1 – Nikolaus von Krufft, Austrian composer and civil servant (d. 1818) March 6 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869) March 15 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1848) May 28 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852) June 20 – Dorothy Ann Thrupp, British psalmist, hymnwriter, translator (d. 1847) July 8 – Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (d. 1851) August 1 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, lyricist (d. 1843) August 8 – Benjamin Silliman, American chemist, educator and abolitionist (d. 1864) August 20 – Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848) August 29 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (d. 1867) September 8 – Mustafa IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1808) September 18 – Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1845) November 14 – Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (d. 1850) December 12 – Madeleine Sophie Barat, French Catholic saint, founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart (d. 1865) December 24 – George Washington Lafayette date unknown – Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (d. 1855) Deaths January 3 – Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712) January 20 – David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717) January 22 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor, astronomer (b. 1733) February 7 – William Boyce, English composer (b. 1711) February 14 – James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (b. 1728) February 24 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encyclopedist (b. 1704) April 7 – Martha Ray (b. 1742), British singer and mistress of John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich (murdered) (b. 1742) April 9 – Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa, Spanish military officer (b. 1717) April 24 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (b. 1711) May 1 – Sarah Clayton, English industrialist (b. 1712) May 3 – John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714) June 7 – William Warburton, English critic, Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698) June 10 – Jane Gomeldon, English writer, poet and adventurer (b. 1720) June 16 – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, Colonial governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay (b. 1712) June 23 – Ras Mikael Sehul, Enderase of