* 1766 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter and printmaker ( d. 1853 )

* 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist ( d. 1828 )

* 1674 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect, designed the Veltrusy Mansion ( d. 1766 )

* 1766 – Collin McKinney, American surveyor, merchant, politician, and preacher, helped draft the Texas Declaration of Independence ( d. 1861 )

** 1802 – 1803 Johann Heinrich Rothpletz ( b. 1766 – d. 1833 )

* 1766 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic ( b. 1685 )

The Qianlong Emperor in ceremonial armor on horseback, painted by Giuseppe Castiglione ( 1688 – 1766 ) | Giuseppe Castiglione, dated 1739 or 1758.

* Ioannis Papadiamantopoulos ( 1766 – 1826 ), revolutionary leader during the Greek War of Independence.

* Harper's Weekly 150 cartoons on elections 1860-1912 ; Reconstruction topics ; Chinese exclusion ; plus American Political Prints from the Library of Congress, 1766 – 1876

** Robert Darwin ( 1766 – 1848 ), physician, father of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

* George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough ( 1766 – 1840 ), elder son of the 4th Duke

* 1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale.

* 1766 – Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer ( d. 1826 )

* Robert Waring Darwin ( 1766 – 1848 ), father of the naturalist Charles Darwin

* 1766 – Thomas Robert Malthus, English demographer and political economist ( d. 1834 )

* 1693 – James Quin, English actor ( d. 1766 )

John Leslie ( 1766 – 1832 ) noted a weakness in the views of Amontons and Coulomb.

* 1700 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer ( d. 1766 )

* Frederick V of Denmark ( 1723 – 1766 ), king of Denmark and Norway

In 1766 – 81, Henry Cavendish was the first to recognize that hydrogen gas was a discrete substance, and that it produces water when burned, a property which later gave it its name: in Greek, hydrogen means " water-former ".

Hanover was chartered by Governor Benning Wentworth on July 4, 1761, and in 1765 – 1766 its first inhabitants arrived, the majority from Connecticut.

* 1704 – John Taylor, English scholar ( d. 1766 )

* 1766 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator ( d. 1813 )

* July 31 – Samuel Wilson, American thought to be the real-life basis for Uncle Sam ( b. 1766 )

Directly to the south of the churchyard stands a 12. 80 metre tall granite obelisk, which was erected in 1861 as a memorial to the Quaker philanthropist and abolitionist, Samuel Gurney ( 1766 to 1856 ).

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

Johann Samuel Ersch ( 1766 – 1828 )

Johann Samuel Ersch ( June 23, 1766, Großglogau – January 16, 1828, Halle ) was a German bibliographer, generally regarded as the founder of German bibliography.

** Johann Samuel Arnhold, German painter in oil and water-colours, and on porcelain and enamel ( born 1766 )

* Johann Samuel Ersch ( 1766 – 1828 ), bibliographer

It was first described by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1770, basing the name on the " bottle-nosed whales " seen by Pehr Kalm in his Travels into North America, and on Thomas Pennant's 1766 description of Samuel Dale's " bottle-head whale " found stranded above a bridge in Maldon, Essex, in 1717.

* Samuel Appleton ( 1766 – 1853 ), an American merchant and philanthropist

* Samuel Swann, 1765 – 1766

Samuel Foote acquired the lease in 1747, and in 1766 he gained a royal patent to play legitimate drama ( meaning spoken drama, as opposed to opera, concerts or plays with music ) in the summer months.

These included the 1607 New Castle ( Neue Schloss ) for Kaspar von Graffenrieds ( renovated 1740, 1755, 1930-36 ) and the 1723 Märchligen Estate for Samuel Morlot ( renovated in 1766, 1820 ), both of which were used as summer residences.

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 ).

Samuel Wilson ( September 13, 1766 – July 31, 1854 ) was a meat-packer from Troy, New York

Samuel Chandler ( 1693 – 8 May 1766 ) was an English Nonconformist minister.

He served as second lieutenant of under Captain Samuel Wallis on the latter's voyage round the globe ( August 1766 – May 1768 ).

* Samuel Blair ( 1741 – 1818 ), minister ca. 1766

# Wordsworth wrongly attributes the passage to Samuel Johnson ; it is actually by Anna Williams ( 1706 – 1783 ), from her Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 1766.

Samuel Wesley ( 24 February 1766 – 11 October 1837 ) was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period.

* Samuel Wesley ( 1766 – 1837 ), composer called the " English Mozart "

Parkes married, on 23 September 1794, Sarah ( born 25 February 1766 ; died 14 December 1813 ), eldest daughter of Samuel Twamley of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.

The phrase has also been attributed to Samuel Adams, but this is disputed ; Josiah Tucker, Dean of Gloucester, produced a slightly different phrase in 1766:

In 1766, Brice became embroiled in a war of words Samuel Chase, a vocal opponent of the Stamp Act and later a signer of the American Declaration of Independence.

* August 6 – Samuel Drummond, British painter especially portraits and marine genre works ( born 1766 )