page_title: 1765
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1765 / Births
context_page_description: 1765 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1765th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 765th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1765, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 11 – Antoine Alexandre Barbier, French librarian (d. 1825)
  January 23 – Thomas Todd, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1826)
  February 1 – Charles Hatchett, English chemist (d. 1847)
  February 8 – Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer (d. 1846)
  February 22 – Meta Forkel-Liebeskind, German writer, scholar (d. 1853)
  March 7 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (d. 1833)
  March 27 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher, theologian (d. 1841)
  April 1 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (d. 1810)
  April 6 – Duke Charles Felix of Savoy (d. 1831)
  April 11 – Gertrudis Bocanegra, Mexican national heroine (d. 1817)
  April 26 – Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (d. 1815)
  June 15 – Henry Thomas Colebrooke, English orientalist (d. 1831)
  July 14 – Abigail Adams Smith, firstborn daughter of Abigail Adams and John Adams (d. 1813)
  July 26 – Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, French marshal (d. 1844)
  August 4 – Claire Lacombe, French actress, political activist
  August 6 – Petrobey Mavromichalis, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1848)
  August 21 – King William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
  September 16 – Harry Burrard-Neale, British Royal Navy officer and politician (d. 1840)
  September 18 – Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
  September 25 – Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Polish-Lithuanian, and later Russian imperial statesman and composer
  September 29 – Karl Ludwig Harding, German astronomer (d. 1834)
  September 30 – José María Morelos, leader of Mexican War of Independence (d. 1815)
  October 8 – Harman Blennerhassett, Irish-American lawyer (d. 1831)
  October 17 – Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, duc de Feltre, French marshal and politician (d. 1818)
  October 24 – James Mackintosh, Scottish publicist (d. 1832)
  November 14 – Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
  November 17 – Jacques MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)
  November 20 – Sir Thomas Fremantle, British captain and politician (d. 1819)
  November 28 – George William Manby, English author and inventor (d. 1854)
  December 8 – Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825)
  December 22 – Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1825)
  date unknown
  Mary Bryant, one of the first successful escapees from the fledgling Australian penal colony
  James Smithson, British mineralogist, chemist and posthumous founder of the Smithsonian Institution (d. 1829)
caption: Robert Fulton
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