of France breaks his promise to eliminate the income tax, after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the war. The Parlement of Paris protests, so he reduces the tax to 5%. Births January 19 – Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter (d. 1814) February 2 – Adam Weishaupt, German founder of the Order of the Illuminati (d. 1811) February 15 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (d. 1832) February 22 – Timothy Dexter, American businessman (d. 1806) February 27 – Anders Sparrman, Swedish naturalist (d. 1820) March 5 William Shield, English violinist, composer (d. 1829) Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810) March 8 – William V, Prince of Orange (d. 1806) March 10 – John Playfair, Scottish scientist (d. 1819) April 12 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836) April 13 – Joseph Bramah, English inventor, locksmith (d. 1814) April 27 Pierre-Louis Ginguené, French author (d. 1816) Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar (d. 1833) May 3 – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, French cleric, constitutional theorist (d. 1836) May 7 – Olympe de Gouges, French playwright (d. 1793) May 10 – Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, French ornithologist (d. 1830) May 28 – Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (d. 1825) June 30 – Jacques Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1845) August 8 – Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German naturalist (d. 1804) August 9 – Bernhard Schott, German music publisher (d. 1809) August 30 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825) October 7 – King Charles XIII of Sweden (Charles II of Norway) (d. 1818) October 13 – Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter, art historian (d. 1821) November 11 – King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819) November 13 – William Chalmers, Swedish merchant (d. 1811) December 9 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822) December 14 – William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (d. 1811) date unknown Gioacchino Navarro, Maltese priest and poet (d. 1813) James Sayers, English caricaturist (d. 1823) Timur Shah, Afghan king (d. 1793) Thomas Holloway, English portrait painter, engraver (d. 1827 Stylianos Vlasopoulos, Greek judge, writer (d. 1822) Deaths January 1 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667) January 16 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684) February 18 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677) March 7 – Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, French noblewoman, Princess of Epinoy by marriage (b. 1664) March 14 – George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)