1758: Year

As of the start of 1758, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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• Rudjer Boscovich makes his atomic theory, in Theoria philosophiae naturalis redacta ad unicam legem virium in nalura existentium.
• A fire destroys a bit of Christiania, Norway.

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

• 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 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 17 – John Pinkerton, British antiquarian (d. 1826)
• 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 (d. 1838)
  • Christopher Gore, U.S. lawyer, politician (d. 1827)
• September 25 – Maria Anna Thekla Mozart called Marianne, known as Bäsle ("little cousin"), cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1841)
• September 26 – Cosme Argerich, Argentine Surgeon General (d. 1820)

 

• September 29
  • Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
  • Fanny von Arnstein, Austrian salonnière (d. 1802)
• October 5 – Seymour Fleming, British noblewoman (d. 1818)
• October 6 – Watkin Tench, British Marine officer (d. 1833)
• October 7 – Joshua Coit, U.S. lawyer, politician (d. 1798)
• October 11 – 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 – Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, German sculptor (d. 1841)

 

• October 16
  • John Paulding, U.S. soldier (d. 1818)
  • Noah Webster, U.S. lexicographer (d. 1843)
• October 22/6 – Vincenzo Dandolo, Italian chemist, agriculturist (d. 1819)
• October 28 – John Sibthorp, English botanist (d. 1796)
• October 28 – Joseph-François-Louis-Charles de Damas, French general (d. 1829)
• October 31 – Thomas Gisborne, Anglican priest, abolitionist (d. 1846)
• November 5 – 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 – Jean Joseph Mounier, French politician (d. 1806)
• November 16 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author, philologist (d. 1841)
• November 20 – Abraham B. Venable, U.S. Representative for Virginia (d. 1811)
• November 25 – John Armstrong, Jr., U.S. soldier, statesman (d. 1843)
• December 5 – George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans (d. 1787)
• December 9 – Richard Colt Hoare, English antiquarian, archaeologist (d. 1838)
• December 21 – Jean Baptiste Eblé, French general (d. 1812)
• December 23 – 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)

• January 7 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
• January 17 – James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish peer (b. 1724)
• January 18 – François Nicole, French mathematician (b. 1683)
• February 10 – Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1683)
• March 2 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (b. 1679)
• March 6 – 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)

 

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

 

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

 

• 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 – Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, British politician (b. 1706)
• October 25/8 – Theophilus Cibber, English actor (b. 1703)
• November 5 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
• November 12 – John Cockburn, Scottish politician
• November 20 – Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)
• November 22 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician (b. 1680)
• November 27 – Senesino, Italian singer (b. 1686)
• December 5 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688)

 

• December 12 – Françoise de Graffigny, French lettrist (b. 1695)
• December 16 – Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, Polish-Lithuanian bishop (b. 1695)
• December 25 – James Hervey, English clergyman, writer (b. 1714)
• December 26 – 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