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1746 births

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Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer (1746-1827)

Giuseppe Piazzi

Italian Catholic priest, mathematician and astronomer (1746–1826)

Tadeusz Kościuszko

Polish, Lithuanian and American military leader (1746–1817)

Gustav III of Sweden

King of Sweden from 1771 to 1792 (1746–1792)

French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818)

Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746-1794)

Carlo Bonaparte

Father of Napoleon Bonaparte

Jacques Charles

French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist

American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)

Giovanni Battista Venturi

Italian physicist

Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin de Genlis

French writer (1746–1830)

Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria

Austrian archduchess

Sophia Magdalena of Denmark

Queen consort of Sweden (1746-1813)

Timur Shah Durrani

Emir of Afghanistan (1746 , 1793)

Izabela Czartoryska

Polish princess (1746–1835)

George XII of Georgia

king of Georgia (Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti)

Maurice Benyovszky

Hungarian traveller and writer

Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (; 12 November 1746 – 21 April 1792), known as Tiradentes (), was a leading member of the colonial Brazilian revolutionary movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira, whose aim was full independence from Portuguese rule and the creation of a republic. When the conspirators plot was uncovered by authorities, Tiradentes was arrested, tried and publicly hanged.

Robert R. Livingston

(1746-1813) American lawyer, politician, diplomat and founding father

Patriarch Grigorios V of Constantinople

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville

French lawyer during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror (1746-1795)

François-André Vincent

French painter (1746-1816)

British scientist (1746-1799)

Jean-Sifrein Maury

Catholic cardinal (1746-1817)

Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken

Duke of Zweibrücken, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1746–1795)

Infanta Benedita of Portugal

Portuguese infanta (1746-1829)

Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle

French botanist (1746-1800)

Bernardo de Gálvez

Spanish colonial administrator (1746-1786)

Joachim Heinrich Campe

German writer and academic

Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen

German general (1746–1818)

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia

Crown Princess of Prussia

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

American politician (1746-1825)

Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse

French botanist and explorer (1746-1802)

Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt

Consort of Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

French botanist (1746-1824)

Irish politician in Irish and UK parliaments (1746-1820)

Peter Jacob Hjelm

Swedish chemist

Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis

French lawyer (1746-1807)

English architect; (1746-1813)

Louis-Jérôme Gohier

French politician (1746-1830)

Louise du Pierry

French astronomer

Hieronymus van Alphen

Dutch poet and writer (1746–1803)

Ernst Ludwig Gerber

German composer (1746-1819)

Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet

French revolutionary (1746-1825)

Jean Henri van Swinden

Dutch mathematician and physicist (1746–1823)

Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter

German poet and dramatist

Gerard van Spaendonck

Dutch painter (1746–1822)

George Elphinstone

1st Viscount Keith, Royal Navy admiral (1746–1823)

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

signer of the US Decleration of Independence (1746-1809)

Theodore Sedgwick

American politician (1746–1813)

Hanawa Hokiichi

Japanese philosopher (1746-1821)

Giuseppe Cambini

Italian musician (1746-1825)

Jean-Nicolas Pache

French politician (1746-1823)

James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury

British diplomat, born 1746

James Northcote

English painter (1746-1831)

Jules, 1st Duke of Polignac

Increase Sumner

Governor of Massachusetts; Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice

William Billings

American choral composer (1746-1800)