1760s births

Tecumseh ( ; March 9, 1768October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity. Even though his efforts to unite Native Americans ended with his death in battle during the War of 1812, he became a folk hero in American, Indigenous, and Canadian popular history.

King of Siam

Scottish explorer

Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 to 1817

The seventh and last Khan of Zand Dynasty (1789–1794)

Sauk leader

British chemist

German operatic soprano

The nominal ruler of Zandi dynasty (1779)

painter

The last Dey of the Regency of Algiers (1765-1838)

Polish painter (c.1754-1830)

Indian serial killer

Bishop of Cloyne; Royal Astronomer of Ireland; Irish Anglican bishop and astronomer

Scottish geologist and physicist (1770-1851)

English botanist (1764-1842)

American pirate; last woman hanged in the state of Massachusetts

first King of Oudh

Māori chief and war leader of Ngāti Toa

Prince of Moldavia and Wallachia

American inventor

Chinese writer

English assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval

French painter

Prince of Wallachia

King Dingiswayo (; – 1817), born as Godongwana, was a king of the Mthethwa Kingdom, well known in history for his mentorship over a young Zulu general, Shaka kaSenzangakhona, who rose to become one of the most influential of the Zulu Kings. His father was the Mthethwa King, Jobe kaKayi.

Senzangakhona kaJama (c. 1762 – 1816) was the king of the Zulu Kingdom, and primarily notable as the father of three Zulu kings who ruled during the period when the Zulus achieved prominence, led by his oldest son King Shaka.

Woollarawarre Bennelong ( 1764 – 3 January 1813) was a senior man of the Eora, an Aboriginal Australian people of the Port Jackson area, at the time of the first British settlement in Australia. Bennelong served as an interlocutor between the Eora and the British, both in the colony of New South Wales and in Great Britain. He was the first Aboriginal Australian to visit Europe and return.

Vietnamese general, mandarin

British explorer

Argentine camp follower and soldier, hero of Argentine Independence

French revolutionary (1767-1794)

Ottoman politician and Grand Vizier (1763-1829)

Polish inventor

Pushmataha ( – December 24, 1824; also spelled Pooshawattaha, Pooshamallaha, or Poosha Matthaw) was one of the three regional chiefs of the major divisions of the Choctaw in the 19th century. Many historians considered him the "greatest of all Choctaw chiefs". Pushmataha was highly regarded among Native Americans, Europeans, and white Americans, for his skill and cunning in both war and diplomacy.

Serbian politician

French antiquarian, explorer, artist (1766-1875)

German botanist

member of U.S. Senate representing South Carolina in 1816

American politician (1762-1803)

African-American anti-slavery leader (1767–1822)

British theologian

Iranian writer, translator and historian

slave concubine of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid I (c.1766-c.1805)

British Army general

Agonglo was a King of the Kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin, from 1789 until 1797. Agonglo took over from his father King Kpengla in 1789 and inherited many of the economic problems that developed during Kpengla's reign. Because of the poor economy, Agonglo was often constrained by domestic opposition. As a response, he reformed many of the economic policies (lowered taxes and removed constrains on the slave trade) and did military expeditions to try to increase the supply for the Atlantic slave trade. Many of these efforts were unsuccessful and European traders became less active in th

18th century Italian violinist

Ornithological illustrator (1767-1809)

Zulu queen

Sultan of Gwandu

khan of Khiva

British peer

Italian composer (1761-1833)

thumb|Tapa cloth made by MauatuaMauatua, also Maimiti or Isabella Christian, also known as Mainmast, ( 1764 – 19 September 1841) was a Tahitian tapa maker, who settled on Pitcairn Island with the Bounty mutineers. She married both Fletcher Christian and Ned Young, and had children with both men. Fine white tapa, which was her specialty, is held in the collections of the British Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum, amongst others.

Menawa, first called Hothlepoya (), was a Muscogee (Creek) chief and military leader. He was of mixed race, with a Creek mother and a fur trader father of Scottish ancestry. As the Creek had a matrilineal system of descent and leadership, his status came from his mother's clan.

British Army general

French painter

English classical scholar, lexicographer and theologian (c.1765–1824)

British sailor, mutineer from the HMS Bounty

enslaved African woman