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: 1820 in the United Kingdom
Content: 23 January – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (born 1767) ; 29 January – King George III of the United Kingdom (born 1738) ; 5 February – William Drennan, Irish political radical, poet and physician (born 1754) ; 11 March – Benjamin West, painter (born 1738 in the Province of Pennsylvania) ; 2 April – Thomas Brown, philosopher and poet (born 1778) ; 1 May – Arthur Thistlewood, conspirator (born 1774) ; 30 May – William Bradley, Britain's tallest ever man (born 1787) ; 19 June – Sir Joseph Banks, naturalist and botanist (born 1743) ; 3 September – Benjamin Henry Latrobe, architect in the United States (born 1764) ; 4 September – Timothy Brown, banker, merchant and radical (born 1743/4) ; 11 October – James Keir, Scottish geologist, chemist and industrialist (born 1735) 
Title: 1786 in Great Britain
Content: 19 January – John Duncombe, writer (born 1729) ; 25 February – Thomas Wright, astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect, garden designer, antiquary and genealogist (born 1711) ; 10 April – John Byron, Vice Admiral (born 1723) ; 21 June – George Hepplewhite, furniture maker (born 1727) ; July – Josiah Martin, colonial governor (born 1737) ; 18 October – Alexander Wilson, mathematician (born 1714) 
Title: 1706 in England
Content: 29 January – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, poet and courtier (born 1638) ; 27 February – John Evelyn, writer, gardener and diarist (born 1620) ; Byerley Turk, thoroughbred stallion (born c. 1684) 
Title: 1756 in Great Britain
Content: 25 February – Eliza Haywood, actress and writer (born 1693) ; 24 July – George Vertue, engraver and antiquary (born 1684) ; 31 August – John Dandridge, distinguished colonel, planter (born 1700) ; 28 October – Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort (born 1709) ; 8 December – William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, statesman and diplomat (born c. 1690) 
Title: 1820
Content: January 17 – Daniel Albert Wyttenbach, Swiss-born academic (b. 1746) ; January 29 – King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738) ; February 5 – William Drennan, Irish physician, poet and radical politician (b. 1754) ; February 11 – Karl von Fischer, German architect (b. 1782) ; February 14 – Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, French noble (stabbed) (b. 1778) ; March 11 – Benjamin West, Anglo-American painter of historical scenes (b. 1738) ; March 22 – Stephen Decatur, American sailor (b. 1779) ; April 8 – Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, British noble (b. 1771) ; April 20 – James Morris III, Continental Army officer from Connecticut (b. 1752) ; May 30 – William Bradley, Britain's tallest ever man (b. 1787) ; June 6 – Henry Grattan, Irish politician (b. 1746) ; June 9 – Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (b. 1751) ; June 19 – Sir Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist (b. 1743) ; June 20 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician, general in the Independence War (b. 1770) 
Title: 1726 in Scotland
Content: 17 January – Hugh Mercer, soldier and physician (died 1777 of wounds received at the Battle of Princeton) ; 6 February – Patrick Russell, surgeon and herpetologist (died 1805 in London) ; 3 June – James Hutton, geologist (died 1797) ; 26 September – John H. D. Anderson, scientist (died 1796) ; Andrew Bell, engraver, co-founder of the Encyclopædia Britannica (died 1809) ; Thomas Melvill, natural philosopher (died 1753) 
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: 1726 in Great Britain
Content: 5 March – Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, politician (born c. 1655) ; 26 March – John Vanbrugh, architect and dramatist (born 1664) ; 26 April – Jeremy Collier, theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (born 1650) ; 28 April – Thomas Pitt, Governor of Madras (born 1653) ; 10 May – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, soldier (born 1670) ; 8 July – John Ker, spy (born 1673) ; August – Colonel John Stewart, former Member of Parliament for the Kirkcudbright Stewartry, killed by Sir Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Baronet, of Stobs ; 23 November – Sophia, Princess of Zelle, queen of George I of Great Britain (born 1666) 
Title: 1806 in Scotland
Content: 30 January – David Smythe, Lord Methven, judge (born 1746) ; 20 February – Lachlan McIntosh, military and political leader (born 1725; died in Savannah, Georgia) ; 17 March – David Dale, businessman and philanthropist (born 1739) ; 5 April – Benjamin Bell, surgeon (born 1749) ; 24 May – John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, field marshal (born 1723) ; 29 December – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, politician (born 1735) ; Mungo Park, explorer (born 1771; died in Bussa, Nigeria) 

Question: Verify the following claims with "True" or "False": He was born in Darlington on January 1, 1726!
Answer: True