Year (''' MDCCLVI ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Monday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
: In Russia , Empress Elizabeth at the porch of the newly-built Catherine Palace , painting ( 1905 ) by Eugene Lanceray (in Tretyakov Gallery ).]]
- January 19 - Guillaume-Antoine Olivier , French entemologist (died 1814 )
- January 27 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Austrian composer (died 1791 )
- February 6 - Aaron Burr , Vice President Of The United States (died 1836 )
- March 3 - William Godwin , English writer (died 1836 )
- March 4 - Sir Henry Raeburn , Scottish painter (died 1823 )
- May 18 - Ignaz Aurelius Fessler , court councillor and minister to Alexander I (died 1839 )
- May 27 - Maximilian I Of Bavaria (died 1825 )
- June 6 - John Trumbull , American painter (died 1843 )
- June 20 - Joseph Martin Kraus , German-Swedish composer (died 1792 )
- July 7 - Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm , Swedish statesman (died 1813 )
- August 1 - Pierre Louis Prieur , French politician (died 1827 )
- August 29 - Heinrich Graf Von Bellegarde , Austrian field marshal and statesman (died 1845 )
- September 7 - Willem Bilderdijk , Dutch author (died 1831 )
- November 3 - Pierre Laromiguière , French philosopher (died 1837 )
: ''See also .''
: ''See also .''
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