* 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 ).

* 1834 – Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician ( b. 1769 )

* 1851 – Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal ( b. 1769 )

** Jean Lannes, French marshal ( mortally wounded in battle ( b. 1769 )

* November 26 – Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal and politician ( b. 1769 )

Jean Valjean ( c. 1769 – 1833 ) is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.

Valjean was born sometime in 1769 ( most likely before October ) in the small town of Faverolles, Aisne, the son of Jean Valjean and Jeanne Valjean, née Mathieu.

* Jean Lannes ( 1769 – 1809 ), Marshal of France ( his heart only, the body is in the Pantheon )

He is the elder son of Jean Edmond Lucien Giscard d ' Estaing ( 1894 – 1982 ), a civil servant, and his wife, Marthe Clémence Jacqueline Marie ( May ) Bardoux, who was a daughter of senator and academic Achille Octave Marie Jacques Bardoux and a great-granddaughter of minister of state education Agénor Bardoux, also a granddaughter of historian Georges Picot and niece of diplomat François Georges-Picot, and also a great-great-great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard ( 1740 – 1769 ) through his great-grandfather Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, and by whom Giscard d ' Estaing was a multiple descendant of Charlemagne.

Oeben's distinguished marquetry appears at its most ambitious on the famous, minutely-documented roll-top Bureau du Roi, made for Louis XV, which was begun in 1760 and remained unfinished at his death ; it was finished and delivered in 1769, signed by Jean Henri Riesener, but it was Oeben who devised its intricate mechanisms.

Georges Chrétien Léopold Dagobert Cuvier or Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier ( sources differ on his name ) ( August 23, 1769 – May 13, 1832 ), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist.

* May 5 – Jean Elleviou, operatic tenor ( b. 1769 )

* Jean de Dieu Soult, Duke of Dalmatie ( 1769 – 1851 ), Marshal of the Empire in 1804, Marshal General of France in 1847

* Jean Lannes, Duke of Montebello ( 1769 – 1809 ), Marshal of the Empire in 1804

Jean Lannes, 1st Duc de Montebello, ( 10 April 1769 – 31 May 1809 ) was a Marshal of the Empire.

The full scale desk was finished in 1769 by his successor, Jean Henri Riesener, who had married Oeben's widow.

* Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, ( 1769 – 1830 ), born in Auxerre, mathematician, experimental physicist, and politician.

Designed to house guests when entertaining at Chantilly, the Chateau d ' Enghien was constructed in 1769 by the architect Jean François Leroy.

The river is named for Jean Jacques Blanchard, a French tailor who settled among the Shawnee along the river in 1769.

* Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, 1769 – 1851:

On 12 December 1769 11: 30am, the St Jean Baptiste sighted the coastline of New Zealand, soon passing James Cook's Endeavour, with neither ship sighting the other due to the bad weather.

The chaplain on board the St Jean Baptiste was Father Paul-Antoine Léonard de Villefeix who conducted the first Christian services in New Zealand on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1769, in Doubtless Bay.

The first European discovery of the cliffs was made by Jean-François-Marie de Surville in December 1769, when he sailed his ship ' St Jean Baptiste ' to New Zealand to find a safe anchorage to care for sick crew.

Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette ( May 6, 1769 – January 16, 1834 ), French mathematician, was born at Mézières, where his father was a bookseller.

Jean François de Saint-Lambert ( 1716 – 1803 ) imitated Thomson in Les Saisons ( 1769 ), a poem that enjoyed popularity for half a century, and of which Voltaire said that it was the only one of its generation that would reach posterity.