Year (''' MDCCXLVI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 12 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , Swiss pedagogue (died 1827 )
- January 24 - King Gustav III Of Sweden (died 1792 )
- February 4 - Tadeusz Kościuszko , Polish general and nationalist (died 1817 )
- February 5 - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney , American politician and soldier (died 1825 )
- March 4 - Kazimierz Pułaski , American Revolutionary War general (d. 1779 )
- March 7 - André Michaux , French botanist (died 1802 )
- March 30 - Francisco Goya , Spanish painter (died 1828 )
- July 3 - Henry Grattan , Irish politician (died 1820 )
- July 7 - Giuseppe Piazzi , Italian astronomer (died 1826 )
- July 23 - Bernardo De Gálvez , Spanish military leader, aided the United States in its quest for independence in the American Revolutionary War (died 1786 ).
- September 28 - Sir William Jones , English philologist (died 1794 )
- November 27 - Robert R. Livingston , American signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1813 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Hong Liangji , Chinese scholar, statesman, political theorist, and philosopher.
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- February 28 - Hermann Von Der Hardt , German historian (born 1660 )
- March 18 - Anna Leopoldovna , regent of Russia (born 1718 )
- March 20 - Nicolas De Largillière , French painter (born 1656 )
- May 6 - William Tennent , Scottish-American theologian (born 1673 )
- May 22 - Thomas Southerne , Irish playwright (born 1660 )
- June 14 - Colin Maclaurin , Scottish mathematician (born 1698 )
- July 2 - Thomas Baker , English antiquarian (born 1656 )
- July 9 - King Philip V Of Spain (born 1683 )
- July 28 - John Peter Zenger , American printer (born 1697 )
- August 6 - Christian VI , King of Denmark and Norway (born 1699 )
- October 2 - Josiah Burchett , English Secretary of the Admiralty (born c. 1666 )
- November 14 - Georg Wilhelm Steller , German naturalist (born 1709 )
- December 6 - Lady Grizel Baillie , Scottish poet (born 1665 )
- December 8 - Charles Radclyffe , British politician (born 1693 )
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