1758

: Siege of Louisbourg]]

## Events 
### Date not known 
* Rudjer Boscovich makes his atomic theory, in .
* A fire destroys a bit of Christiania, Norway.

* J. R. Geigy(later named to Novartis), a global pharmaceutical brand was founded in Basel, Switzerland.

## Births 
* January 6 &#x2013; Charles Ganilh, French economist, politician (d. 1836)
* January 9 &#x2013; George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (d. 1833)
* January 11 &#x2013; François Louis Bourdon, French Revolutionary politician (d. 1797)
* January 17 &#x2013; Marie Anne Simonis, Belgian textile industrialist (d. 1831)
* January 20 &#x2013; Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, French chemist (d. 1836)
* January 24 &#x2013; Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (d. 1844)
* 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 &#x2013; 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 &#x2013; Amalia Holst, German writer, intellectual, and feminist (d. 1829)
* February 17 &#x2013; John Pinkerton, British antiquarian (d. 1826)
* February 25 &#x2013; Joseph McDowell, U.S. Representative for North Carolina (d. 1799)
* February 28 &#x2013; Nicolas François, Count Mollien, French financier (d. 1850)
* March 6 &#x2013; William Russell, U.S. soldier (d. 1825)
* March 9 &#x2013; Franz Joseph Gall, German pioneering neuroanatomist (d. 1828)
* March 12 &#x2013; Leopold Karel, Count of Limburg Stirum (d. 1840)
* March 15 &#x2013; Magdalene Sophie Buchholm, Norwegian poet (d. 1826)
* March 25 &#x2013; Richard Dobbs Spaight, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1802)
* April 1 &#x2013; 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 &#x2013; Christian Karl August Ludwig von Massenbach, Prussian soldier (d. 1827)
* April 19 &#x2013; Fisher Ames, U.S. Congressman for Massachusetts (d. 1808)
* April 22 &#x2013; 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 &#x2013; Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix, French zoologist (d. 1830)

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* April 28 &#x2013; James Monroe, fifth President of the United States (d. 1831)
* April 29 &#x2013; 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)

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* May 6 
** Maximilien de Robespierre, French revolutionary (d. 1794)
** André Masséna, Napoleonic general, Marshal of France (d. 1817)
* May 8 &#x2013; John Heath, U.S. Representative for Virginia (d. 1810)
* May 15 &#x2013; 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 &#x2013; Raffaello Sanzio Morghen, Italian engraver (d. 1833)
* June 22 &#x2013; Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee (d. 1824)
* June 29 &#x2013; Clotilde Tambroni, Italian philologist, linguist (d. 1817)
* June 30 &#x2013; James Stephen, British lawyer (d. 1832)
* July 4 &#x2013; Charles d'Abancour, French statesman (d. 1792)
* July 25 &#x2013; Elizabeth Hamilton, English writer (d. 1816)
* July 31 &#x2013; Rosalie de Constant, Swiss naturalist (d. 1834)
* July 31 &#x2013; Jeremiah Colegrove, U.S. farmer, manufacturer and soldier (d. 1836)
* August 2 &#x2013; William Campbell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Upper Canada, resident of Toronto (d. 1834)
* August 5 &#x2013; Emperor Go-Momozono of Japan (d. 1779)
* August 10 &#x2013; Armand Gensonné, French politician (d. 1793)
* August 14 &#x2013; Carle Vernet, French painter (d. 1835)

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* 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 &#x2013; Israel Pellew, English naval officer (d. 1832)
* September 1 &#x2013; George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, English Whig politician (d. 1834)
* September 9 &#x2013; Alexander Nasmyth, Scottish portrait and landscape painter (d. 1840)
* September 10 &#x2013; Hannah Webster Foster, U.S. novelist (d. 1840)
* September 18 &#x2013; Louis Friant, French Napoleonic soldier (d. 1829)
* September 20 &#x2013; Jean-Jacques Dessalines, leader of the Haitian Revolution (d. 1806)

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* September 21 
** Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, French linguist, orientalist (d. 1838)
** Christopher Gore, U.S. lawyer, politician (d. 1827)
* September 25 &#x2013; Maria Anna Thekla Mozart called Marianne, known as Bäsle ("little cousin"), cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1841)
* September 26 &#x2013; Cosme Argerich, Argentine Surgeon General (d. 1820)

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* September 29
** Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
** Fanny von Arnstein, Austrian salonnière (d. 1802)
* October 5 &#x2013; Seymour Fleming, British noblewoman (d. 1818)
* October 6 &#x2013; Watkin Tench, British Marine officer (d. 1833)
* October 7 &#x2013; Joshua Coit, U.S. lawyer, politician (d. 1798)
* October 11 &#x2013; Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German astronomer (d. 1840)
* October 12 
** James Davenport, U.S. Representative for Connecticut (d. 1797)
** Theodorus Bailey, U.S. Representative for New York (d. 1828)
* October 15 &#x2013; Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, German sculptor (d. 1841)

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* October 16 
** John Paulding, U.S. soldier (d. 1818)
** Noah Webster, U.S. lexicographer (d. 1843)
* October 22/6 &#x2013; Vincenzo Dandolo, Italian chemist, agriculturist (d. 1819)
* October 28 &#x2013; John Sibthorp, English botanist (d. 1796)
* October 28 &#x2013; Joseph-François-Louis-Charles de Damas, French general (d. 1829)
* October 31 &#x2013; Thomas Gisborne, Anglican priest, abolitionist (d. 1846)
* November 5 &#x2013; Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, French botanist (d. 1831)
* November 11 
** Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer (d. 1832)
** Caleb P. Bennett, U.S. soldier, politician (d. 1836)
* November 12 &#x2013; Jean Joseph Mounier, French politician (d. 1806)
* November 16 &#x2013; Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author, philologist (d. 1841)
* November 20 &#x2013; Abraham B. Venable, U.S. Representative for Virginia (d. 1811)
* November 25 &#x2013; John Armstrong, Jr., U.S. soldier, statesman (d. 1843)
* December 5 &#x2013; George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans (d. 1787)
* December 9 &#x2013; Richard Colt Hoare, English antiquarian, archaeologist (d. 1838)
* December 21 &#x2013; Jean Baptiste Eblé, French general (d. 1812)
* December 23 &#x2013; John M. Vining, U.S. Representative for Delaware (d. 1802)

### Date unknown 
* Georges Antoine Chabot, French jurist, statesman (d. 1819)
* Nicholas Fish, U.S. Revolutionary soldier (d. 1833)
* Anthimos Gazis, Greek scholar, philosopher (d. 1828)
* Samuel Hardy, U.S. lawyer and statesman from Virginia (d. 1785)
* Jamphel Gyatso, 8th Dalai Lama of Tibet (d. 1804)
* Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General (d. 1815)
* Samuel Sterett, American politician, U.S. Representative for Maryland (d. 1833)
* Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité, Empress of Haiti (d. 1858)

### Probable 
* Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (d. c. 1819)

## Deaths 
* January 7 &#x2013; Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
* January 17 &#x2013; James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish peer (b. 1724)
* January 18 &#x2013; François Nicole, French mathematician (b. 1683)
* February 10 &#x2013; Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1683)
* March 2 &#x2013; Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (b. 1679)
* March 6 &#x2013; Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. c. 1705)
* March 18 
** Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1693)
** Thomas Zebrowski, Lithuanian Jesuit scientist (b. 1714)

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* March 22 
** Jonathan Edwards, U.S. minister (b. 1703)
** Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)
* April 7 &#x2013; Joseph Blanchard, American soldier (b. 1704)
* April 21 &#x2013; Francesco Zerafa, Maltese architect (b. 1679)
* April 22 &#x2013; Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686)
* April 30 &#x2013; François d'Agincourt, French composer (b. 1684)
* May 3 &#x2013; Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
* May 28 &#x2013; Ernst August II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach (b. 1737)
* June 3 &#x2013; Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (b. 1671)
* June 9 &#x2013; Antonio de los Reyes Correa, Puerto Rican soldier
* June 12 &#x2013; Prince Augustus William of Prussia (b. 1722)
* July 6 &#x2013; George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general (in battle) (b. c. 1725)

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* July 7 &#x2013; Marthanda Varma, Rani of Attingal (b. 1706)
* July 15 &#x2013; Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet (b. 1705)
* July 18 &#x2013; Duncan Campbell, Scottish soldier
* August 2 &#x2013; George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (b. 1675)
* August 15 &#x2013; Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (b. 1698)
* August 17 &#x2013; Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin, Russian soldier (b. 1702)
* August 23 &#x2013; Ulrika Eleonora von Düben, Swedish lady in waiting (b. 1722)
* August 27 &#x2013; Barbara of Portugal, Princess of Portugal and Queen of Spain (b. 1711)
* September 5 &#x2013; Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov, Russian chemist (b. c. 1720)
* September 23 &#x2013; John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory (b. 1719)
* October 2 *(bur.)* &#x2013; Philip Southcote, English landscape gardener (b. 1698)
* October 12 &#x2013; Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)

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* October 14
** Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (b. 1709)
** James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
* October 20 &#x2013; Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, British politician (b. 1706)
* October 25/8 &#x2013; Theophilus Cibber, English actor (b. 1703)
* November 5 &#x2013; Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
* November 12 &#x2013; John Cockburn, Scottish politician
* November 20 &#x2013; Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)
* November 22 &#x2013; Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician (b. 1680)
* November 27 &#x2013; Senesino, Italian singer (b. 1686)
* December 5 &#x2013; Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688)

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* December 12 &#x2013; Françoise de Graffigny, French lettrist (b. 1695)
* December 16 &#x2013; Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, Polish-Lithuanian bishop (b. 1695)
* December 25 &#x2013; James Hervey, English clergyman, writer (b. 1714)
* December 26 &#x2013; François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, French dramatist, satirist (b. 1677)

### Date unknown 
* François Mackandal, Haitian revolutionary leader, burned at the stake
* Nathaniel Meserve, American shipwright (b. 1704)
* Hyder Ali and his Sepoy capture Bangalore from "Khande Rao of the Maratha Confederacy". (Part of the Seven Years' War).
* Verónica II Guterres, African monarch