* 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer ( d. 1834 )

* 1839 – Benjamin Pierce, American politician ( b. 1757 )

* 1757 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress ( d. 1775 )

* 1705 – David Hartley, English philosopher ( d. 1757 )

Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822 ) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh.

* 1752 – Start of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in Burmese Civil War ( 1740 – 1757 )

* 1701 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish scholar ( d. 1757 )

He was the son of sultan Ahmed III ( 1703 – 30 ) and succeeded his brother Mustafa III ( 1757 – 74 ) on January 21, 1774.

* 1811 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician ( b. 1757 )

** Volume 3: Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748 – 1757 ( 2008 ), 768pp excerpt and text search

* Antoine Augustin Calmet ( 1672 – 1757 )

** Canton System, to control trade with the west ( 1757 – 1842 )

* Patriarch Cyril V of Constantinople, patriarch in 1748 – 1757

* 1678 – Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat ( d. 1757 )

* 1699 – Queen Maria Josepha of Poland ( d. 1757 )

* 1757 – Seven Years ' War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.

" One of Lenin's challenges was distancing materialism, as a viable philosophical outlook, from the " vulgar materialism " expressed in the statement " the brain secretes thought in the same way as the liver secretes bile " ( attributed to 18th c. physician Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, 1757 – 1808 ); " metaphysical materialism " ( matter composed of immutable particles ); and 19th-century " mechanical materialism " ( matter as random molecules interacting per the laws of mechanics ).

In 1757, he married Mary ( Polly ) Howard ( 1740 – 1770 ).

* 1757 – Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman.

* 1672 – Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian ( d. 1757 )

* 1657 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters ( d. 1757 )

* 1683 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist ( d. 1757 )

* 1757 Samuel Porter

* Samuel McIntire ( 1757 – 1811 ), architect & woodcarver from Salem Massachusetts, McIntire Historic District is the largest collection of historic homes in America!

Samuel Romilly ( 1757 – 1818 ) who had been greatly influenced by Becarria published a reply in which he strongly criticised the doctrine.

Wieland's tastes had changed ; the writings of his early Swiss years — Der geprüfte Abraham ( The Trial of Abraham's Faith, 1753 ), Sympathien ( 1756 ), Empfindungen eines Christen ( 1757 ) — were still in the manner of his earlier writings, but with the tragedies, Lady Johanna Gray ( 1758 ), and Clementina von Porretta ( 1760 ) — the latter based on Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison — the epic fragment Cyrus ( 1759 ), and the " moral story in dialogues ," Araspes und Panthea ( 1760 ), Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, " forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men.

" Gray, writing to Horace Walpole ( August, 1757 ), said that the author " seemed to have retrieved the true language of the stage, which has been lost for these hundred years ," but Samuel Johnson held aloof from the general enthusiasm, and averred that there were not ten good lines in the whole play ( Boswell, Life, ed.

In 1756 he returned to Boston to continue his legal preparations with Samuel Prat, and he was admitted to the bar in 1757.

* Samuel Bentham ( 1757 – 1831 ), English mechanical engineer, brother of Jeremy

Sir Samuel Bentham ( 11 January 1757 in England – 31 May 1831 in London, England ) was a noted English mechanical engineer and naval architect credited with numerous innovations, particularly related to naval architecture, including weapons.

* Samuel Slack, notable bass singer born 1757 of local fame, reputedly sang before King George III

Portrait, oil on canvas, of Sir Samuel Romilly ( 1757 – 1818 ) by Sir Thomas Lawrence ( 1769 – 1830 )

Sir Samuel Romilly ( 1 March 1757 – 2 November 1818 ), was a British legal reformer.

* Samuel Phillips Payson ( 1736 – 1801 ), American minister for the town of Chelsea, Massachusetts from 1757

In 1757 he married Susannah Smith and they had a son, Reverend Samuel Hoole.

The late 18th century and the early 19th century characterized by the Romantic movement in British art includes Joseph Wright of Derby, James Ward, Samuel Palmer, Richard Parkes Bonington, John Martin and was perhaps the most radical period in British art, also producing William Blake ( 1757 – 1827 ), John Constable ( 1776 – 1837 ) and J. M. W.

* Samuel Romilly ( 1757 – 1818 ), English legal reformer.

* Johann Samuel König ( 1712 – 1757 ), German mathematician

Samuel McIntyre ( January 16, 1757 – February 6, 1811 ) was an American architect and craftsman, Chestnut Street District, a legacy to one of the earliest architects in the United States, Samuel McIntyre is a primary example of Federal style architecture.

Samuel Sewall ( December 11, 1757 – June 8, 1814 ) was an American lawyer and congressman.

English deism, however, was already in decline before Hume's works on religion ( 1757, 1779 ) were published.

Captain George Vancouver ( 22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798 ) was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.

It has occurred in English since at least 1757.

* 1757 – George Vancouver, English navy officer and explorer ( d. 1798 )

* 1757 – English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.

* 1757 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, English statesman ( d. 1844 )

* 1712 – Edward Moore, English writer ( d. 1757 )

* 1684 – Edward Vernon, English Royal Navy admiral ( d. 1757 )

* 1757 – Colley Cibber, English poet ( b. 1671 )

* August 12 – William Blake, English poet and artist ( b. 1757 )

* April 11 – John ' Mad Jack ' Fuller, English philanthropist and patron of the arts and sciences ( b. 1757 )

* June 11 – Colley Cibber, English poet ( d. 1757 )

* March 22 – Edward Moore, English writer ( d. 1757 )

* August 30 – David Hartley, English philosopher ( d. 1757 )

* December 8 – Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat ( d. 1757 )

In France, where English architecture rarely made much impression, the influence of St Paul's Cathedral can be seen in the church of Sainte-Geneviève ( now the Panthéon ); begun in 1757, it rises to a drum and dome similar to St Paul's, and there are other versions inspired by Wren's dome, from St Isaac's ( 1840 – 42 ) in St Petersburg to the US Capitol at Washington, D. C. ( 1855 – 65 ).

* William Blake ( 1757 – 1827 ) English writer ( Songs of Innocence )

They were much admired by Charles Avison, who with John Garth brought out an edition with English words ( London, 1757 ).

Wentworth, acting without approval of the General Assembly, in 1744 issued a King's Patent to establish a new town within Brentwood called Keeneborough Parish, named after his friend, Sir Benjamin Keene ( 1697 – 1757 ), English minister to Spain.

Well into the nineteenth century, English was spoken by few in Wales, and prior to the early twentieth century there are only three major Welsh-born writers who wrote in the English language: George Herbert ( 1593 – 1633 ) from Montgomeryshire, Henry Vaughan ( 1622 – 1695 ) from Brecknockshire, and John Dyer ( 1699 – 1757 ) from Carmarthenshire.

While historically Welsh writing in English might be said to begin with the fifteenth-century bard Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal, well into the nineteenth century English was spoken by few in Wales, and prior to the early twentieth century there are only three major Welsh-born writers who wrote in the English language: George Herbert ( 1593 – 1633 ) from Montgomeryshire, Henry Vaughan from Brecknockshire ( 1622 – 1695 ), and John Dyer from Carmarthenshire ( 1699 – 1757 ).