Year (''' MDCCXXXII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 24 - Pierre De Beaumarchais , French writer (d. 1799 )
- February 22 - George Washington , 1st President Of The United States , commander in the Revolutionary War , soldier in the French And Indian War (d. 1799)
- March 31 - Joseph Haydn , Austrian composer (d. 1809 )
- April 5 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard , French painter (d. 1806 )
- April 13 - Frederick North, Lord North , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1792 )
- June 21 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach , German composer (d. 1795 )
- September 30 - Jacques Necker , French politician (d. 1804 )
- October 6 - Nevil Maskelyne , English Astronomer Royal (d. 1811 )
- November 13 - John Dickinson , Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808 )
- December 6 - Warren Hastings , British administrator (d. 1818 )
- December 23 - Richard Arkwright , English inventor (d. 1792 )
- ''date unknown'' - Abbas III , Shah of Persia (d. 1740 )
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- January 12 - John Horsley , British archaeologist (born c. 1685 )
- February 13 - Charles-René D'Hozier , French historian (born 1640 )
- February 17 - Louis Marchand , French organist and harpsichordist (born 1669 )
- February 22 - Francis Atterbury , English bishop and man of letters (born 1663 )
- March 20 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden , German philologist (born 1681 )
- May 20 - Thomas Boston , Scottish church leader (born 1676 )
- July 16 - Woodes Rogers , English privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas (born c. 1679 )
- September 24 - Emperor Reigen Of Japan (born 1654 )
- October 31 - Victor Amadeus II Of Sardinia (born 1666 )
- December 4 - John Gay , English poet and dramatist (born 1685 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Jiang Tingxi , Chinese painter, calligrapher, encyclopedist, foreign diplomat to Japan (born 1669 )
: ''See also .''
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