Events
Births
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January 1 - Paul Revere, American silversmith and patriot
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January 8 - John Carroll First Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S.
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February 28 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde French musician and chemist
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April 13 - Isaac Low, New York delegate to the Continental Congress
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May 1 - Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro Spanish Jesuit and philologist
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September 5 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer, son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1782)
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October 1 - Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (d. 1811)
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October 9 - Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick
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October 21 - Richard Gough English antiquary
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October 30 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
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November 10 - Granville Sharp English abolitionist
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December 29 - Thomas Banks, English sculptor and artist
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December 31 - Jean de Crévecoeur, French-American writer (d. 1813)
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John Julius Angerstein English merchant and insurer (d. 1822)
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Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne (d. 1814)
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Étienne Clavière French financier and politician (d. 1793)
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James Keir geologist, chemist, and industrialist (d. 1820)
Deaths
