Abrégé de l'art des accouchements (The Art of Obstetrics), and the French government authorizes her to carry her instruction "throughout the realm" and promises financial support. Births January 25 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796) January 29 – Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, French botanist (d. 1828) February 15 – Friedrich August Wolf, German philologist, archaeologist (d. 1824) February 22 – Claude Lecourbe, French general (d. 1815) April 19 – August Wilhelm Iffland, German actor (d. 1814) April 22 – James Freeman, first clergyman in America to call himself a Unitarian (d. 1835) April 27 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English feminist author (d. 1797) May 15 – Maria Theresia von Paradis, Austrian musician, composer (d. 1824) May 20 – William Thornton, American architect (d. 1828) May 21 – Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820) May 28 – William Pitt the Younger, statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806) June 21 – Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817) June 25 – William Plumer, American lawyer, Baptist lay preacher, and politician (d. 1850) July 2 – Nathan Read, American engineer and politician (d. 1849) July 31 – Ignaz Anton von Indermauer, Austrian nobleman and government official (d. 1796) August 24 – William Wilberforce, British abolitionist (d. 1833) September 10 – Lemuel Cook, American Revolutionary War veteran, centenarian (d. 1866) September 19 – William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850) October 25 Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg, empress of Paul I of Russia (d. 1828) William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1834) October 26 – Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794) November 10 – Friedrich Schiller, German writer (d. 1805) November 27 – Franz Krommer, Czech composer (d. 1831) November 23 – Felipe Enrique Neri, legislator and colonizer of Texas (d. 1820) December 2 – James Edward Smith, English botanist (d. 1828) Date unknown – Maria Petraccini, Italian anatomist, physician (d. 1791) Salomea Deszner, Polish actress, singer and theater director (d. 1806) Alice Flowerdew, British teacher, religious poet, hymnwriter (d. 1830) Deaths January 12 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, regent of Friesland (b. 1709) February 9 – Louise Henriette of Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, mother of Philippe Égalité (b. 1726) February 20 – Georg Anton Urlaub, German painter (b. 1713) February 27 – Jacob Theodor Klein, German scholar (b. 1685) March 11 – John Forbes, British general (b. 1707)