page_title: 1758
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1758 / Births
caption_attribution_description: English: Detail of portrait of Noah Webster by James Herring. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. (further cropped)
context_page_description: 1758 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1758th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 758th year of the 2nd millennium, the 58th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1750s decade. As of the start of 1758, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 6 – Charles Ganilh, French economist, 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 17 – Marie Anne Simonis, Belgian textile industrialist (d. 1831)
  January 20 – Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, French chemist (d. 1836)
  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, politician (d. 1805)
  David Ochterlony, Massachusetts-born general with the East India Company (d. 1825)
  February 2 – George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley (d. 1818)
  February 3
  Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier of Great Britain (d. 1823)
  Vasily Kapnist, Ukrainian poet, playwright (d. 1823)
  February 10 – Amalia Holst, German writer, intellectual, and feminist (d. 1829)
  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 15 – Magdalene Sophie Buchholm, Norwegian poet (d. 1826)
  March 25 – Richard Dobbs Spaight, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1802)
  April 1 – Benjamin Mooers, American 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, British Royal Navy officer (k. 1798)
  Alexander Cochrane, British Royal Navy officer (d. 1832)
  Philip Gidley King, British Royal Navy officer, 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)
  April 30
  Emmanuel Vitale, Maltese military leader (d. 1802)
  Jane West, English writer (d. 1852)
  May 6
  Maximilien de Robespierre, French revolutionary (d. 1794)
  André Masséna, Napoleonic general, Marshal of France (d. 1817)
  May 8 – John Heath, U.S. Representative for Virginia (d. 1810)
  May 15 – Thomas Taylor, English neoplatonist translator (d. 1835)
  May 17
  Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English fossil collector (d. 1839)
  Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco (d. 1819)
  June 19 – Raffaello Sanzio Morghen, Italian engraver (d. 1833)
  June 22 – Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee (d. 1824)
  June 29 – Clotilde Tambroni, Italian philologist, linguist (d. 1817)
  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 – Rosalie de Constant, Swiss naturalist (d. 1834)
  July 31 – Jeremiah Colegrove, U.S. farmer, manufacturer and soldier (d. 1836)
  August 2 – William Campbell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Upper Canada, resident of Toronto (d. 1834)
  August 5 – Emperor Go-Momozono of Japan (d. 1779)
  August 10 – Armand Gensonné, French politician (d. 1793)
  August 14 – Carle Vernet, French painter (d. 1835)
  August 24
  Edward James Eliot, English politician (d. 1797)
  Thomas Picton, British soldier, colonial governor (k. 1815)
  Duchess 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 Haitian Revolution (d. 1806)
  September 21
  Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, French linguist, orientalist 
caption: Noah Webster
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