1758 - Births

Births

• January 6 – Charles Ganilh, French economist and politician (d. 1836)
• January 9 – George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (d. 1833)
• January 11 – François Louis Bourdon, French Revolutionary politician (d. 1797)
• January 24 – Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (d. 1844)
• February – John Pinkerton, British antiquarian (d. 1826)
• February 1
  • Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès, French orator and politician (d. 1805)
  • David Ochterlony (d. 1825)
• February 2 – George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley (d. 1818)
• February 3
  • Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (d. 1823)
  • Vasily Kapnist, Ukrainian poet and playwright (d. 1823)
• February 25 – Joseph McDowell, U.S. Representative for North Carolina (d. 1799)
• February 28 – Nicolas François, Count Mollien, French financier (d. 1850)
• March 6 – William Russell, U.S. soldier (d. 1825)
• March 9 – Franz Joseph Gall, German pioneering neuroanatomist (d. 1828)
• March 12 – Leopold Karel, Count of Limburg Stirum (d. 1840)
• March 25 – Richard Dobbs Spaight, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1802)
• April 1 – Benjamin Mooers, U.S. soldier (d. 1838)
• April 4
  • John Hoppner, English portrait-painter (d. 1810)
  • Pierre Paul Prud'hon, French painter (d. 1823)
• April 16 – Christian Karl August Ludwig von Massenbach, Prussian soldier (d. 1827)
• April 19 – Fisher Ames, U.S. Congressman for Massachusetts (d. 1808)
• April 22 – Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén, Spanish general (d. 1852)
• April 23
  • Alexander Hood, officer of the Royal Navy (d. 1798)
  • Alexander Cochrane, officer of the Royal Navy (d. 1832)
  • Philip Gidley King, English naval officer and colonial administrator (d. 1808)
• April 27 – Charles Dumont de Sainte Croix, French zoologist (d. 1830)
• April 28 – James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
• April 29 – Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish officer, general and war hero (d. 1820)
• May 6
  • Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary (d. 1794)
  • André Masséna, Napoleonic general and Marshal of France (d. 1817)
• May 8 – John Heath, U.S. Representative for Virginia (d. 1810)
• May 15 – Thomas Taylor, British translator (d. 1835)
• May 17
  • Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, British fossil collector (d. 1839)
  • Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco (d. 1819)
• June 19 – Raffaello Sanzio Morghen, Italian engraver (d. 1833)
• June 30 – James Stephen, British lawyer (d. 1832)
• July 4 – Charles d'Abancour, French statesman (d. 1792)
• July 25 – Elizabeth Hamilton, English writer (d. 1816)
• July 31 – Jeremiah Colegrove, U.S. farmer, manufacturer and soldier (d. 1836)
• August – Thomas Picton, British soldier (d. 1815)
• August 2 – William Campbell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Upper Canada and a resident of Toronto (d. 1834)
• August 5 – Emperor Go-Momozono (d. 1779)
• August 10 – Armand Gensonné, French politician (d. 1793)
• August 14 – Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (d. 1835)
• August 24
  • Edward James Eliot, English politician (d. 1797)
  • Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1794)
• August 25 – Israel Pellew, English naval officer (d. 1832)
• September 1 – George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, English Whig politician (d. 1834)
• September 9 – Alexander Nasmyth, Scottish portrait and landscape painter (d. 1840)
• September 10 – Hannah Webster Foster, U.S. novelist (d. 1840)
• September 18 – Louis Friant, French Napoleonic soldier (d. 1829)
• September 20 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, leader of the Haïtian Revolution (d. 1806)
• September 21
  • Silvestre de Sacy, French linguist and orientalist (d. 1838)
  • Christopher Gore, U.S. lawyer and politician (d. 1827)
• September 25 – Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1841)
• September 26 – Cosme Argerich, Argentine Surgeon General (d. 1820)
• September 29
  • Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
  • Fanny von Arnstein, Austrian society hostess (d. 1802)
• October 7 – Joshua Coit, U.S. lawyer and politician (d. 1798)
• October 11 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (d. 1840)
• October 12
  • James Davenport, U.S. Representative for Connecticut (d. 1797)
  • Theodorus Bailey, U.S. Representative for New York (d. 1828)
• October 15 – Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, German sculptor (d. 1841)
• October 16
  • John Paulding, U.S. soldier (d. 1818)
  • Noah Webster, U.S. lexicographer (d. 1843)
• October 28 – John Sibthorp, English botanist (d. 1796)
• October 28 – Joseph-François-Louis-Charles de Damas, French general (d. 1829)
• October 31 – Thomas Gisborne, Anglican priest and abolitionist (d. 1846)
• November 5 – Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, French botanist (d. 1831)
• November 11
  • Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer (d. 1832)
  • Caleb P. Bennett, U.S. soldier and politician (d. 1836)
• November 12 – Jean Joseph Mounier, French politician (d. 1806)
• November 16 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841)
• November 20 – Abraham B. Venable, U.S. Representative for Virginia (d. 1811)
• November 25 – John Armstrong, Jr., U.S. soldier and statesman (d. 1843)
• December 5 – George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans (d. 1787)
• December 9 – Richard Colt Hoare, English antiquarian and archaeologist (d. 1838)
• December 21 – Jean Baptiste Eblé, French general (d. 1812)
• December 23 – John M. Vining, U.S. Representative for Delaware (d. 1802)