the Church of Scotland gives rise to the First Secession of 1733. Births January – Abbas III, Shah of Persia (d. 1740) January 17 – Stanisław August Poniatowski, last King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1798) January 20 – Richard Henry Lee, 12th President of the Continental Congress (d. 1794) January 24 – Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (d. 1799) February – Charles Churchill, English poet (d. 1764) February 6 – Charles Lee, general of the Continental Army (d. 1782) February 22 George Washington, first President of the United States (d. 1799) Jean-Bernard Restout, French painter (d. 1797) March 1 – William Cushing, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1810) March 31 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809) April 5 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (d. 1806) April 8 – David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman and public official (d. 1796) April 13 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792) April 17 – John Blair Jr., American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1800) June 21 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1795) September 2 – William Crawford, American soldier and surveyor (d. 1782) September 26 – José de Córdoba y Ramos, Spanish explorer, naval commander (d. 1815) September 30 – Jacques Necker, French politician (d. 1804) October 6 – Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal (d. 1811) October 24 – Cristina Roccati, Italian scholar in physics (d. 1797) November 4 – Thomas Johnson, American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1819) November 9 – Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, French salon holder (d. 1776) November 13 – John Dickinson, Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808) December 6 – Warren Hastings, British administrator (d. 1818) December 15 – Carl Gotthard Langhans, German architect (d. 1808) December 21 – Johann Christian Wiegleb, German chemist (d. 1800) December 23 – Richard Arkwright, English inventor (d. 1792) date unknown – Francis Marion, American officer (d. 1795) Deaths January 12 – John Horsley, British archaeologist (b. c.1685) January 22 – Louis de Sabran, British theologian (b. 1652) February 6 – Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wealthy Scottish peeress (b. 1651) February 7 – William Hiseland, English (later British) soldier, reputed supercentenarian (b. 1620) February 13 – Charles-René d'Hozier,