* 1771 – Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet ( d. 1832 )

* 1771 – Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1820 )

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

* Ursin Durand ( 1682 – 1771 )

Clausewitz, Hermann von Boyen ( 1771 – 1848 ) and Karl von Grolman ( 1777 – 1843 ) were Scharnhorst's primary allies in his efforts to reform the Prussian army between 1807 and 1814.

* 1987 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.

* Jacques le fataliste et son maître, novel ( 1771 – 1778 )

* 1697 – Giuseppe de Majo, Italian composer and organist ( d. 1771 )

* 1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1771 )

* 1716 – Thomas Gray, English writer ( d. 1771 )

* 1771 – Julie Clary, queen consort of Naples ( d. 1845 )

The Encyclopédie in turn inspired the venerable Encyclopædia Britannica, which had a modest beginning in Scotland: the first edition, issued between 1768 and 1771, had just three hastily completed volumes – A – B, C – L, and M – Z – with a total of 2, 391 pages.

** Rossiada by Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov ( 1771 – 1779 )

* 1715 – Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher ( d. 1771 )

* 1771 – Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.

* George Clinton, Jr. ( 1771 – 1809 ), U. S. Representative from New York, nephew of Vice President George Clinton

* Georg von Reichenbach 1771 – 1826, Bavaria ( Germany )

Between 1764 and 1771, the average importation of slaves varied between 10 000 – 15 000, by 1786 about 28 000, and, from 1787 onward, the colony received more than 40 000 slaves a year.

* 1731 – 1771: Frederick William, Prince in Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt ( son of )

* 1771 – 1788: Frederick Henry, Prince in Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg Schwedt ( brother of )

The Messier objects are a set of astronomical objects first listed by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1771.

* 1771 – Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1847 )

* April 30 – Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general ( b. 1771 )

Charles Messier measured the position of the cluster and included it as M45 in his catalogue of comet-like objects, published in 1771.

* 1771 — Charles Messier publishes his first list of nebulae

The Barre settled in Pointe Coupee, LA, where they met the Nezat ( Pierre Nezat coming from Santo Domingo ( French Saint Domingue, West part of Hispaniola ) and the Provost ( Nicolas Provost coming from Paris via Fort de Chartres, IL ). In 1771, Charles Alex Barre, French Creole, married in Pointe Coupee, LA, Magdelaine Decuir and both had 11 children.

* Colonel Charles Stewart: Irish immigrant, member of Hunterdon County Militia in 1771

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 ).

Charles Messier published the first edition of his catalog of deep sky objects in 1774 ( completed in 1771 ).

In 1771 Augustus George of Baden-Baden died without sons, and his territories passed to Charles Frederick, who thus finally became ruler of the whole of Baden.

* Charles Moore ( English politician ) ( 1771 – 1826 ), English politician, Member of Parliament 1799 – 1802, 1802 – 1806 and 1807 – 1812

Müller's letters to Füsslin ( 1771 – 1807 ) were issued at Zürich ( 1812 ), and those to Charles Bonnet, etc., at Stuttgart ( 1835 ).

On the death of Charles Alston in 1760, Cullen at the request of the students undertook to finish his course of lectures on materia medica ; he delivered an entirely new course, notes of which were published in an unauthorized edition in 1771, but which he re-wrote and issued as A Treatise on Materia Medica in 1789.

Charles Brockden Brown ( January 17, 1771 – February 22, 1810 ), an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period, is generally regarded by scholars as the most ambitious and accomplished US novelist before James Fenimore Cooper.

* The House of the Prince ( La Casita del Príncipe )-in neoclassical style, constructed between 1771 and 1775 and remodeled in 1781, under King Charles III by the architect Juan de Villanueva.

Charles Lawrence Dundas ( 18 July 1771 – 25 January 1810 )

File: Nancy Hallam as Fidele in Shakespeare's Cymbeline Charles Willson Peale 1771. jpeg | Nancy Hallam as Fidele in Shakespeare's Cymbeline ( 1771 )

Later, it was used as an observatory by the astronomer Charles Messier, who in 1771 published his observations in the landmark Messier catalog.

Some time during his travels, he met the British historian Dr Charles Burney, who obtained the piece from him and took it to London, where it was published in 1771.

* Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin and 9th Earl of Kincardine ( 1732 – 1771 )

* Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin and 9th Earl of Kincardine ( 1732 – 1771 )

On 13 January 1772, Sharp was visited and asked for help by James Somersett, a slave from Virginia in America, who had come to England with his master Charles Stewart in 1769 and had run away in October 1771.

* Charles Rose Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford ( 1771 – 1845 )