* 1702 – Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau ( d. 1769 )

* 1769 – Napoleon, Corsican-French military officer and political leader ( d. 1821 )

* 1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist ( d. 1832 )

* Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ( 1769 – 1852 ), Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman

* 1769 – Chief Pontiac, Ottawa leader ( b. 1720 )

# Napoléon ( I ) Bonaparte ( 1769 – 1821 ) Emperor

( 1765 – 1769 ).

Notable late-classical deists include Peter Annet ( 1693 – 1769 ), Thomas Chubb ( 1679 – 1747 ), Thomas Morgan (?– 1743 ), and Conyers Middleton ( 1683 – 1750 ).

* 1769 – Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier ( b. 1685 )

* 1769 – Sino-Burmese War ( 1765 – 1769 ) ends with an uneasy truce.

* 1769 – Dartmouth College is founded by the Rev.

* 1769 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet ( b. 1715 )

Biogeographer Alexander von Humbolt ( 1769 – 1859 ) was an early pioneer in ecological thinking and was among the first to recognize ecological gradients, where species are replaced or altered in form along environmental gradients, such as a cline forming along a rise in elevation.

William Smith ( 1769 – 1839 ), an English canal engineer, observed that rocks of different ages ( based on the law of superposition ) preserved different assemblages of fossils, and that these assemblages succeeded one another in a regular and determinable order.

* 1769 – Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Austrian general ( d. 1862 )

* 1769 – Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist ( d. 1844 )

* 1711 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia ( d. 1769 )

* 1695 – François de Chevert, French general ( d. 1769 )

* 1769 – Susette Gontard, the beloved of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin ( d. 1802 )

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

* 1689 – Edward Holyoke, American clergyman, 9th President of Harvard University ( d. 1769 )

* June 26 – Edward Holyoke, American President of Harvard University ( d. 1769 )

* Island of St. John, separated from Nova Scotia 1769, renamed Prince Edward Island in 1798

However, in 1769 the present-day Prince Edward Island, which had been part of Acadia, was renamed " St John ’ s Island " and organized as a separate colony.

* Charles Edward von Hessenstein ( 1737 – 1769 ).

In 1769 Clinton's regiment was assigned to Gibraltar, and Clinton served as second in command to Edward Cornwallis.

After exploring it, he named it for Sir Edward Hawke, First Lord of the Admiralty on 15 October 1769, describing it as some 13 leagues ( about 40 miles ) across.

* 1769 Edward Rooke

Yeoman was overworked, and Edward Rubie was appointed to assist him in February 1769.

Edward Bligh ( 1769 – 1840 ), second son of the third Earl, was a General in the Army.

# Lord Edward Henry Somerset ( 1768 – 1769 )

Related patents were taken out in England by Gowin Knight in 1760 and Edward Beran on 11 December 1769, but Venetian blinds were known to the French long before then, the French name for Venetian blinds being persiennes.

* Edward Lewis ( Radnor MP ), British MP for Radnor, 1761 – 1768, 1769 – 1774 and 1775 – 1790

Edward Holyoke ( June 26, 1689 – June 1, 1769 ) was an early American clergyman, and the 9th President of Harvard College.

Sittingbourne Mill existed from circa 1769, which by 1820 had grown and was owned by Edward Smith.

Other notable painters were Richard Crosse ( 1742 – 1810 ), Ozias Humphry ( 1742 – 1810 ), Samuel Shelley ( c1750 – 1808 ), whose best pictures are groups of two or more persons, William Wood, a Suffolk artist ( 1768 – 1808 ), Henry Edridge ( 1769 – 1821 ), John Bogle, and Edward Dayes.

Edward Daniel Clarke ( 5 June 1769 – 9 March 1822 ) was an English naturalist, mineralogist and traveller.

Following Robert's retirement in 1769, the business was continued by his two sons, Richard ( 1734 – 1811 ) and Thomas Robert ( his other children were Alice, Edward and John ).

Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick had once been administered as parts of Nova Scotia, until 1769 and 1784, respectively.

Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick had once been administered as parts of Nova Scotia, until 1769 and 1784, respectively.

Edward Holyoke was president of Harvard University from 1737 to 1769.

In circa 1633, it was purchased by Sir Thomas Draper and sold in 1769 by his great grandson, Thomas Draper Baber, to Jeremiah Crutchley, whose family owned it until perhaps the death of Percy Edward Crutchley in 1940.