Year (''' MDCCLX ''') 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 ).
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- January 3 - John Storm , American Revolution ary soldier (died 1835 )
- March 1 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot , French Revolutionary leader (suicide) (died 1794 )
- March 10 - Leandro Fernández De Moratín , Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet (died 1828 )
- April 30 - Joseph Souham , French general (died 1837 )
- May 10 - Johann Peter Hebel , German poet (died 1826 )
- May 28 - Alexandre, Vicomte De Beauharnais , French politician and general (died 1794 )
- June 12 - Jean-Baptiste Louvet De Couvrai , French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat (died 1797 )
- August 22 - Pope Leo XII (died 1829 )
- September 14 - Luigi Cherubini , Italian composer (died 1842 )
- October 27 - August Von Gneisenau , Prussian field marshal (died 1831 )
- December 17 - Deborah Sampson , first American female soldier (died 1827 )
- ''date unknown'' - Louise Françoise Contat , French actress (died 1813 )
- ''probable'' - Lemuel Francis Abbott , English portrait painter (died 1802 )
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- April 10 - Jean Lebeuf , French historian (born 1687 )
- May 5 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers , English murderer (hanged) (born 1720 )
- May 9 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf , German religious and social reformer (born 1700 )
- May 15 - Alaungpaya , King of Burma (born 1711 )
- May 22 - Israel Ben Eliezer , Polish-born mystical rabbi (born 1700 )
- June 13 - Antoine Court , French Huguenot minister (born March 27 , 1696 )
- July 13 - Conrad Weiser , Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Iroquois Confederacy (born 1696 )
- September 11 - Louis Godin , French astronomer (born 1704 )
- October 15 - Nicolas D'Assas , a captain of the French regiment of Auvergne (b. 1733 )
- October 25 - King George II Of Great Britain (born 1683 )
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