Title: 1786 in science
Content: February 25 – Thomas Wright, English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect, garden designer, antiquary and genealogist (born 1711) ; May 2 &ndash; Petronella Johanna de Timmerman, Dutch scientist (born 1723) ; May 4 – Leonardo Ximenes, Tuscan polymath (born 1716) ; May 15 – Eva Ekeblad, agronomist, first woman in the Swedish Royal Academy of Science (born 1724) ; May 21 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (born 1742) ; October 16 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish polymath (born 1714) ; November 10 – John Hope, Scottish physician and botanist (born 1725) 
Title: 1766 in Great Britain
Content: 1 January – James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (born 1688) ; 9 January – Thomas Birch, English historian (born 1705) ; 21 January – James Quin, English actor (born 1693) ; 4 April – John Taylor, English classical scholar (born 1704) ; 8 May – Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (born 1693) ; 13 August – Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English heiress and painter (born 1726) ; 3 September – Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (born 1686) ; 13 September – Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (born 1704) ; 23 September – John Brown, English essayist (born 1715) ; 29 November – John Wyatt, English inventor (born 1700) 
Title: 1766
Content:  Taylor, English classical scholar (b. 1704) ; April 7 &ndash; Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist, critic (b. 1685) ; May 5 &ndash; Jean Astruc, French physician, scholar (b. 1684) ; May 8 &ndash; Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (b. 1693) ; May 20 &ndash; Malhar Rao Holkar, Indian nobleman (b. 1693) ; May 22 &ndash; Hedvig Strömfelt, Swedish psalm writer (b. 1723) ; June 13 &ndash; Isaac Norris (statesman), American politician (b. 1701) ; June 22 &ndash; Carlo Zimech, Maltese priest and painter (b. 1696) ; June 24 &ndash; Adrien Maurice de Noailles, 3rd Duke of Noailles, French soldier (b. 1678) ; July 9 &ndash; Jonathan Mayhew, American minister, patriot (b. 1720) 
Title: 1866 in science
Content: March 6 – William Whewell (born 1794), English scientist, philosopher and historian of science ; March 14 – Alexander Morison (born 1779), Scottish physician and psychiatrist ; April 4 – William Dick (born 1793), Scottish veterinarian ; April 5 – Thomas Hodgkin (born 1798), English physician ; July 20 – Bernhard Riemann (born 1826), German-born mathematician ; September 16 - François Mêlier (born 1798), French physician ; October 18 – Philipp Franz von Siebold (born 1796), German physician, botanist and traveler in Japan ; December 1 – George Everest (born 1790), British surveyor and geographer 
Title: 1766 in science
Content: July 6 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (died 1813) ; July 8 – Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon, pioneer of battlefield medicine (died 1842) ; August 3 – Kurt Sprengel, German botanist (died 1833) ; August 6 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (died 1828) ; September 6 – John Dalton, English chemist and physicist (died 1844) ; September 24 – John Farey, Sr., English geologist (died 1826) ; December 23 – Wilhelm Hisinger, Swedish physicist and chemist (died 1852) ; December 26 – William Goforth, American physician and paleontologist (died 1817) ; December 29 – Charles Macintosh, Scottish inventor of a waterproof fabric (died 1843) 
Title: 1776 in Great Britain
Content: 2 February – Francis Hayman, painter and illustrator (born 1708) ; 24 March – John Harrison, clockmaker (born 1693) ; 29 April – Edward Wortley Montagu, traveller and writer (born 1713) ; 13 June – William Battie, psychiatrist (born 1703 or 1704) ; 20 June – Benjamin Huntsman, inventor and manufacturer (born 1704) ; 7 July – Jeremiah Markland, classical scholar (born 1693) ; 17 July – Harriet Pelham-Holles, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, widow of the Prime Minister (born 1701) ; 25 August – David Hume, Scottish philosopher (born 1711) ; 17 November – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (born 1710) 
Title: 1786 in science
Content: January 5 – Thomas Nuttall, English naturalist (died 1859) ; February 26 – François Arago, French mathematician, physicist and astronomer (died 1853) ; February 28 – Christian Ramsay, Scottish botanist (died 1839) ; April 16 – Thomas Sewall, American anatomist (died 1845) ; April 28 – Elizabeth Andrew Warren, Cornish botanist and marine algolologist  (died 1864) ; July 24 – Joseph Nicollet, French geographer, explorer, mathematician and astronomer (died 1843) ; November 3 – Ernst Friedrich Germar, German entomologist (died 1853) ; December 6 – Johann Georg Bodmer, Swiss mechanical engineer and inventor (died 1864) 
Title: 1866 in the United Kingdom
Content: 19 January – Harriet Ludlow Clarke, wood engraver and stained glass artist ; 23 January – Thomas Love Peacock, satirical novelist (born 1785) ; 27 January – John Gibson, sculptor (born 1790) ; 6 March ; Sir William Gore Ouseley, diplomat (born 1797) ; William Whewell, scientist, philosopher and historian of science (born 1794) ; 21 March – Charles Henry Cooper, antiquarian (born 1808) ; 29 March – John Keble, churchman (born 1792) ; 1 April – Elizabeth Jesser Reid, social reformer, promoter of women's higher education (born 1789) ; 4 April – William Dick, Scottish veterinary surgeon (born 1793) ; 5 April – Thomas Hodgkin, physician (born 1798) ; 12 April – Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, poliltician and developer (born 1801) ; 21 April – Jane Welsh Carlyle, writer (born 1801) ; 5 August – Henry William-Powlett, 3rd Baron Bayning, peer and clergyman (born 1797) ; 21 August – George Shillibeer, coachbuilder (born 1797) ; 10 September – David Ramsay Hay, interior decorator (born 1798) ; 1 December – Sir George Everest, geodesist (born 1790) 
Title: 1726
Content:  music historian (d. 1814) ; April 20 &ndash; Joseph de Ferraris, Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands (d. 1814) June 3 O.S. &ndash; James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797) ; June 14 O.S. &ndash; Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist (d. 1798) ; June 20 &ndash; Louise Henriette of Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, mother of Philippe Égalité (d. 1759) ; July 1 &ndash; Acharya Bhikshu, Jain saint (d. 1803) ; July 30 &ndash; William Jones (1726–1800), British clergyman, author (d. 1800) ; August 7 &ndash; James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader, politician (d. 1790) ; August 9 &ndash; Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778) ; September 1 &ndash; François-André Danican Philidor, French composer, chess player 
Title: 1626
Content:  English composer and lutenist (b. 1563) ; February 21 &ndash; Odoardo Farnese, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1573) ; March 3 &ndash; William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire, England (b. 1552) ; March 10 &ndash; John Dormer, English Member of Parliament (b. 1556) ; March 19 &ndash; Pierre Coton, French Jesuit and royal confessor (b. 1564) ; April 5 &ndash; Anna Koltovskaya (b. c. 1552) ; April 9 &ndash; Francis Bacon, English scientist and statesman (b. 1561) ; April 11 &ndash; Marino Ghetaldi, Croatian mathematician and physicist (b. 1568) ; May 4 &ndash; Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop, Bible 

Question: Verify the following claims with "True" or "False": A scientist, whose nationality is English, was born in 1726 on January, 1.
Answer: True