Births 1745

alessandro volta



february 18 – alessandro volta, italian physicist (d. 1827)
february 20 – henry james pye, english poet (d. 1813)
february 21 – olof tempelman, swedish architect (d. 1816)
march 4

charles dibdin, english composer (d. 1814)
kazimierz pułaski, american revolutionary war general (d. 1779)


march 10 – john gunby, maryland soldier in american revolutionary war (d. 1807)
march 25 – john barry, officer in continental navy during american revolutionary war, , later in united states navy (d. 1803)
april 20 – philippe pinel, french physician (d. 1826)
april 29 – oliver ellsworth, chief justice of united states (d. 1807)
july 8 – sara banzet, french educator , diarist (d. 1774)
july 13 – robert calder, british naval officer (d. 1818)
august 20 – francis asbury, american methodist bishop (d. 1816)
august 30 – johann hieronymus schröter, german astronomer (d. 1816)
september 16 – mikhail illarionovich kutuzov, russian field marshal (d. 1813)
november 13 – valentin haüy, french educator, founder of first school blind (d. 1822)
november 23 – john treadwell, fourth governor of connecticut (d. 1823)
december 2 – queen jeongsun, korean regent (d. 1805)
december 12 – john jay, american politician , 1st chief justice of united states (died 1829)
december 15 – johann gottfried koehler, german astronomer (d. 1801)
december 24 – william paterson, american politician , associate justice of supreme court of united states (d. 1806)
date unknown

micaela bastidas puyucahua, peruvian indigenous rebel leader (d. 1781)
danwon, korean painter (d. 1806)
robert h. harrison, american jurist , lieutenant colonel of continental army (d. 1790)