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1766 births

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British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)

Thomas Robert Malthus

British political economist (1766–1834)

Germaine de Staël

Genevan-French author (1766-1817)

Nikolay Karamzin

Russian writer, poet, critic

William Hyde Wollaston

English chemist and physicist (1766–1828)

Joseph Radetzky von Radetz

Czech nobleman and Austrian general (1766-1858)

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia

Paraguayan lawyer, politician and dictator (1766-1840)

Vietnamese poet (1765-1820)

Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy

French general and marshal (1766-1847)

Charlotte, Princess Royal

British princess (1766-1828); eldest daughter of George III

Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu

French politician (1766-1822)

Franz Xaver Süssmayr

Austrian composer and conductor

Dominique Jean Larrey

French surgeon in Napoleon's army and an important innovator in battlefield medicine (1766-1842)

Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin

British nobleman and diplomat (1766–1841)

German botanist (1766–1833)

French philosopher (1766-1824)

Charles Macintosh

British chemist (1766–1843)

Samuel Frederick Gray

British botanist, mycologist, and pharmacologist (1766-1828)

Johanna Schopenhauer

German writer (1766-1838)

Rodolphe Kreutzer

French violinist, conductor, composer (1766-1831)

British mathematician and physicist (1766–1832)

Benjamin Smith Barton

American physician, professor, and botanist (1766-1815)

Joseph Franz von Jacquin

Austrian botanist (1766-1839)

Antoine-Vincent Arnault

French dramatist (1766-1834)

Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases

French politician, atlas-maker and author (1766-1842)

Alexander Wilson

Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator (1766-1813)

Isaac D'Israeli

British writer (1766–1848)

François-Xavier Fabre

French painter, teacher & philanthropist (1766-1837)

English medical doctor; father of naturalist Charles Darwin

Wilhelm Hisinger

Swedish chemist and mineralogist

Austrian composer

American meat packer (1766-1854)

English geologist and writer

Slimane of Morocco

Sultan of Morocco (1766–1822)

Friedrich Weinbrenner

German architect and city planner (1766-1826)

Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg

German botanist, entomologist and ornithologist (1766-1849)

William Townsend Aiton

British botanist and horticulturist (1766-1849)

American scientist (1766-1849)

Pierre Antoine Poiteau

French botanist and scientific illustrator (1766-1854)

Aaron Alexandre

Jewish German–French–English chess player and writer

Guillaume Philibert Duhesme

French general (1766-1815)

Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta

Italian historian (1766-1837)

Camilo Torres Tenorio

president of Nueva Granada (today Colombia)

Albertine Necker de Saussure

Genevan writer (1766-1841)

Johann Philipp Palm

executed German bookseller (1766-1806)

Johann Samuel Ersch

German bibliographer

morganatic wife of Frederick William II of Prussia

Girolamo Crescentini

Italian singer castrato

Mihály Fazekas

Hungarian writer (1766–1828)

Louis-Vincent-Joseph Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire

French general noted for his participation to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1766-1809)

Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer

German philosopher and theologian

Franz Xaver Niemetschek

Czech philosopher (1766-1849)

Jean-François-Aimé-Philippe Gaudin

Swiss botanist (1766–1833)

Friedrich Ludewig Bouterwek

German Hispanist

Jean Samuel Pauly

Christoph Friedrich von Ammon

German theological writer and preacher

Louis Marie de Lescure

Thomas Charles Hope

British physician and chemist

Johann Tobias Bürg

Austrian astronomer

John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford

British politician (1766-1839)