page_title: 1766
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1766 / Births
caption_attribution_description: English: British physicist and chemist John Dalton (1766–1844) by Charles Turner (1773–1857) after James Lonsdale (1777–1839). Mezzotint.
context_page_description: 1766 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1766th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 766th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1766, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1 – Magdalena Rudenschöld, Swedish conspirator (d. 1823)
  January 3 – Nguyễn Du, Vietnamese poet (d. 1820)
  January 6 – José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Supreme Leader of Paraguay (d. 1840)
  February 11 – Henry Fourdrinier, British engineer, inventor (d. 1854)
  February 14 – Thomas Malthus, English demographer, economist (d. 1834)
  April 6 – Charles Louis de Fourcroy, Chevalier de la Légion D'honneur, French mathematician, scholar (d. 1824)
  April 22 – Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
  May 30 – Robert Darwin, medical doctor and father of Charles Darwin (d. 1848)
  June 13 – Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French cartographer (d. 1875)
  July 8 – Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon, innovator in battlefield medicine (d. 1842)
  July 9 – Jacob Perkins, American physicist, inventor and engineer (d. 1849)
  July 21 – Thomas Charles Hope, Scottish chemist, discoverer of strontium (d. 1844)
  August 6 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)
  September 6 – John Dalton, English chemist, physicist (d. 1844)
  September 25 – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Prime Minister of France (d. 1822)
  October 23 – Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (d. 1847)
  November 2 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
  December 3 – Barbara Fritchie, U.S. patriot in the Civil War (d. 1862)
  December 23 – Wilhelm Hisinger, Swedish physicist and chemist (d. 1852)
  date unknown – Lolotte Forssberg, Swedish courtier (d. 1840)
caption: John Dalton
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