* 1693 – Laurent Belissen, French composer ( d. 1762 )

* 1762 – George IV of the United Kingdom ( d. 1830 )

* 1741 – Emperor Momozono of Japan ( d. 1762 )

* 1742 – 1762 James Bradley

* 1762 – 1764 Nathaniel Bliss

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762 – 1796, was a member of the House of Ascania, herself the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.

* Russian Empire: 1762 – 1796

* 1850 – William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic ( b. 1762 )

* Marquard Herrgott ( 1694 – 1762 )

* 1687 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer ( d. 1762 )

After getting established, on April 21, 1762, Boudinot married Hannah Stockton ( 1736 – 1808 ), Richard's younger sister.

* 1703 – Shah Waliullah, Islamic Scholar and Reformer ( d. 1762 )

* 1728 – Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great ( d. 1762 )

* 1702 – Johann Valentin Görner, German composer ( d. 1762 )

* 1711 – Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander in the Royal Spanish Navy ( d. 1762 )

There he enjoyed the society of such eminent men as Antoine-Léonard de Chézy ( his primary instructor ), Silvestre de Sacy, Louis Mathieu Langlès, and, above all, of Alexander Hamilton ( 1762 – 1824 ), cousin of the U. S. statesman, who had acquired, when in India, an acquaintance with Sanskrit, and had brought out, along with Langlès, a descriptive catalogue of the Sanskrit manuscripts of the Imperial library.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; May 19, 1762 – January 27, 1814 ) was a German philosopher.

Giovanni Aldini ( April 10, 1762 – January 17, 1834 ), Italian physicist born at Bologna, was a brother of the statesman Count Antonio Aldini ( 1756 – 1826 ) and nephew of Luigi Galvani, whose treaties on muscular electricity he edited with notes in 1791.

* Gia Long ( 1762 – 1820 ), Vietnamese Emperor

The practice was introduced to the west by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ( May 26, 1689 – August 21, 1762 ).

Cook married Elizabeth Batts ( 1742 – 1835 ), the daughter of Samuel Batts, keeper of the Bell Inn, Wapping and one of his mentors, on 21 December 1762 at St. Margaret's Church in Barking, Essex.

* 1674 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer ( d. 1762 )

* 1762 – British forces begin a siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city in the Battle of Havana.

* 1714 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher ( d. 1762 )

* 1762 – Samuel Morey, American inventor ( d. 1843 )

* April 17 – Samuel Morey, American inventor ( b. 1762 )

Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes ( 1651 ), Samuel Pufendorf ( 1673 ), John Locke ( 1689 ), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1762 ) are among the most prominent of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century theorists of social contract and natural rights.

* Samuel Foote: The Liar ( 1762 )

John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery, FRS ( 13 January 1707 – 16 November 1762 ) was a writer and a friend of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson.

Murphy is best known for three biographies: his 1792 An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson, his 1762 Fielding's Works and his 1801 Life of David Garrick.

It was first settled by English colonists in 1762 by Samuel Sleeper and family.

Originally built as a residence in 1719, it was opened as a tavern by Samuel Fraunces in 1762, and became a popular gathering place.

* Sir Samuel Hood ( 1762 – 1814 ), his cousin once removed, was a Rear Admiral.

* Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet ( 1762 – 1814 ), British admiral

Mudge inherited a friendship with the family of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and when in 1762 Samuel Johnson accompanied Reynolds on his visit to Plymouth, Johnson became a friend and consulted Mudge as a physician.

Their children included James Bayard ( 1760 – 1788 ) ( 1760 – 1788 ), Andrew Bayard ( 1762 – 1833 ), Samuel Bayard ( 1766 – 1840 ), Jane Bayard ( 1772 – 1851 ) who married Andrew Kirkpatrick, Nicholas Bayard ( 1774 – 1821 ), Margaret Bayard ( 1778 – 1844 ), and Anna Bayard ( 1779 – 1869 ).

Born on Staten Island, Broome studied law with William Livingston, but about 1762 abandoned a legal career to join his brother Samuel in a partnership to import British goods.

His heirs sold the building in 1762 to Samuel Fraunces who converted the home into the popular tavern, first named the Queen's Head.

He also studied art in Bath ( under Samuel Collins, taking over his practice in 1762 ); in Bath, he lodged with Thomas Linley.

In 1762 he was appointed assistant tutor in mathematics and natural philosophy ; on the move of the academy to Hoxton after Jennings's death in 1762 he became resident tutor, a position which he held till 1785, his colleagues being Andrew Kippis and Samuel Morton Savage ; subsequently he was tutor in Hebrew and mathematics in the New College at Hackney ( 1786 – 96 ).

The Scottish diarist and author James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson passed through Ayton on his journey to London on 15 November 1762.

1746: A Sulphuric acid factory is set up at Steelhouse Lane to use the lead chamber process invented by its co-founder John Roebuck, Roebuck and local businessman Samuel Garbett later relocate to Prestonpans in Scotland, taking with them several skilled men from the Birmingham factory, it is here in 1762 where Roebuck takes out a patent for making malleable iron.

Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet KB RN ( 1762 – 24 December 1814 ) was an officer of the Royal Navy and the cousin once removed of the more famous Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood.

* Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet ( 1762 – 1814 )

* His brother, Admiral Sir Samuel Hood ( 1762 – 1814 ).