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: 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: 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: 1766
Content: January 1 &ndash; James Francis Edward Stuart, The Old Pretender to the British throne (b. 1688) ; January 9 &ndash; Thomas Birch, English historian (b. 1705) ; January 13 &ndash; King Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723) ; January 19 &ndash; Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, French architect and painter (b. 1695) ; January 21 &ndash; James Quin, English actor (b. 1693) ; February 5 &ndash; Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) ; February 23 &ndash; Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland (b. 1677) ; March 7 &ndash; Ercole Lelli, Italian painter of the late-Baroque (b. 1702) ; March 10 &ndash; Jane Colden, American botanist (b. 1724) ; April 4 &ndash; 
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: January 24
Content: 1626 &ndash; Samuel Argall, English captain and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1572) ; 1639 &ndash; Jörg Jenatsch, Swiss pastor and politician (b. 1596) ; 1666 &ndash; Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and theorist (b. 1588) ; 1709 &ndash; George Rooke, English admiral and politician (b. 1650) ; 1877 &ndash; Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (b. 1796) ; 1881 &ndash; James Collinson, English painter (b. 1825) ; 1883 &ndash; Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812) ; 1895 &ndash; Lord Randolph Churchill, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1849) 
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: 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: 17 January – Hugh Mercer, soldier and physician (died 1777) ; 8 March – Richard Howe, admiral (died 1799) ; 12 April – Charles Burney, music historian (died 1814) ; 12 May – Alexander Hood, naval officer (died 1814) ; 3 June – James Hutton, geologist (died 1797) ; 14 June – Thomas Pennant, naturalist (died 1798) ; 2 September – John Howard, prison reformer (died 1790) ; 26 September – John H. D. Anderson, scientist (died 1796) 

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