1770s births

influential female Chinese pirate

Sequoyah ( ; , , or , , ; 1770 – August 1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation.

American enslaved woman (c1773-1835); owned by Thomas Jefferson and mother of his children

Tarrare (;  – 1798), sometimes spelt Tarar, was a French showman, soldier, and spy noted for his unusual appetite and eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry; his parents could not provide for him and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager. He travelled around France in the company of a band of prostitutes and thieves before becoming the warm-up act for a travelling charlatan. In this act, he swallowed corks, stones, live animals, and a whole basketful of apples. He then took this act to Paris, where he worked as a street performer.

Irish novelist (1781? – 1859)

mountain man, explorer

first woman to climb Mont Blanc (1779-1839)

Turkmen poet

Polish soldier and eater

American frontier politician (c.1773–1817)

Turkish supercentenarian (1764–1934)

American politician (1778-1838)

naturalist (1771–1813)

Irish chemist

Kalanikauikaalaneo Kai Keōpūolani-Ahu-i-Kekai-Makuahine-a-Kama-Kalani-Kau-i-Kealaneo (1778–1823) was a queen consort of Hawaii and the highest ranking wife of King Kamehameha I.

Polish-Lithuanian painter (c.1777–1830)

thumb|Johannes Bückler, Painting by K. H. Ernst (1803)

British writer

iconographer (1772-1815)

tasked with suppressing the Greek War of Independence but failed

Greek chief klepht, armatole military commander and fighter of the 1821 revolution

Russian composer

Ottoman scientist

American fur trader

botanist (1778-1837)

Russian painter (1776-1851)

American politician (1776-1850)

British botanist, botanical collector and scientific illustrator (1778-1852)

Guadeloupean rebel

English operatic tenor (1774-1856)

Greek archimandrite, chanter and teacher of music

American politician

New Zealand Maori chief

18th/19th-century English traveler

American politician (1775-1822)

Kaumualiʻi (c. 1778–May 26, 1824) was the last independent aliʻi nui of Kauaʻi and Niʻihau before becoming the vassal of Kamehameha I within the unified Hawaiian Kingdom in 1810. He was the 23rd high chief of Kauaʻi and reigned from 1794 to 1810.

Naturalist and collector from England (1773-1849)

Muscogee chief

Khan of Kokand from 1801–1810

Greek politician

Qing Dynasty rebel

privateer, soldier, and politician (1775-1830)

emir of Bukhara

Muslim Hero & Freedom Fighter

Polish brigadier

British businessman

Italian composer

king of Tahaʻa and Bora Bora

Greek socialite

Teraura, also Susan or Susannah Young ( – July 1850), was a Tahitian woman who settled on Pitcairn Island with the Bounty Mutineers. She took part in Ned Young's plot to murder male Polynesians who had travelled on HMS Bounty and killed Tetahiti. A tapa maker, examples of her craft are found in the British Museum and at Kew Gardens.

Royal Navy officer, explorer of Australia, and surveyor

scientist

poet

Queen Mother and Regent of Nepal

Austrian doctor and mineralogist

Cherokee leader (d. 1839)

Greek politician

Souliot military fighter

Dey of Algiers

American pioneer