* 1708 – Georg Reutter II, Austrian composer ( d. 1772 )

* 1696 – Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein ( d. 1772 )

* 1772 – Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d ' état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.

* 1772 – King Gustav III completes his coup d ' état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.

* 1772 – David Ricardo, English political economist ( d. 1823 )

* 1772 – The First Partition of Poland begins.

* 1772 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher ( d. 1837 )

* Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis ( Leiden, 1709 ), on which his pupil and assistant, Gerard van Swieten ( 1700 – 1772 ) published a commentary in 5 vols.

A more successful " New Version " by Bishop Mark Hildesley ( 1698 – 1772 ) was in use until 1824 when English liturgy became universal on the island.

* Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 1772 – 1834 ), English poet and philosopher

* Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes, in collaboration with Raynal ( 1772 – 1781 )

* Susanna Parker ( 1772 – 1856 )

In part, it was conceived in reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert ( published 1751 – 1772 ), which had been inspired by Chambers's Cyclopaedia ( first edition 1728 ).

Carte de la Guyane françoise et l ' isle de Cayenne effectuée en 1793 par Jacques-Nicolas Bellin ( 1703 – 1772 ) un cartographe affecté au ministère de la Marine française.

* 1772 – Karl von Kügelgen, German landscape and history painter ( d. 1832 )

* 1772 – Sir George Murray, Scottish soldier and politician ( d. 1830 )

* 1695 – William Borlase, English naturalist ( d. 1772 )

# On 15 September 1790, to his double first cousin Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies ( 6 June 1772 – 13 April 1807 ), daughter of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies ( both were grandchildren of Empress Maria Theresa and shared all of their other grandparents in common ), with whom he had twelve children, of whom only seven reached adulthood.

Vancouver's first naval service was as a midshipman aboard, on James Cook's second voyage ( 1772 – 1775 ) searching for Terra Australis.

In 1772 – 1795 Prussia took part in the partitions of Poland.

The movement, from 1772 until 1805, involved Herder as well as polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ) and Friedrich Schiller ( 1759 – 1805 ), a poet and historian.

The three Partitions of Poland | Partitions of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 1772, 1793, and 1795 )

* Kings of Galicia and Lodomeria ( 1772 – 1918 ), and

The philosopher Denis Diderot was Editor in Chief of the famous Enlightenment accomplishment, the 72, 000 article Encyclopédie ( 1751 – 1772 ).

The predominance of natural history, books and manuscripts began to lessen when in 1772 the Museum acquired its first antiquities of note ; Sir William Hamilton's collection of Greek vases.

The earliest Mesopotamian objects to enter the collection were purchased by the British Museum in 1772 from Sir William Hamilton.

He married Helena Cookes ( an amateur botanical illustrator, and erstwhile patient of his ) in 1772 ; they had three children ( the first, Helena was born in 1775 but died a few days later, William was born in 1776, and Charlotte in 1778 ).

* William I of the Netherlands ( 1772 – 1843 )

* May 16 – William Congreve, British rocket pioneer ( b. 1772 )

* February 2 – William Borlase, English naturalist ( d. 1772 )

* December 12 – King William I of the Netherlands ( b. 1772 )

William I Frederick, born Willem Frederik Prins van Oranje-Nassau ( 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843 ), was a Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield | Lord Mansfield ( 1705 – 1793 ), whose opinion in Somerset's Case ( 1772 ) was widely taken to have held that slavery was illegal in England.

The poem may have been inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration ( 1772 – 1775 ) of the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean ; Coleridge's tutor, William Wales, was the astronomer on Cook's flagship and had a strong relationship with Cook.

On March 12, 1772, present day Cortland County became part of Tryon County, named for William Tryon, colonial governor of New York.

* William Hamlin ( 1772 – 1869 )

In England, these phosphorus matches were called " Congreves " after Sir William Congreve ( 1772 – 1828 ) while they went by the name of " loco foco " in the United States.

* William I, King of the Netherlands ( 25 August 1772 – 12 December 1843 ).

Cook's ship HMS Resolution ( 1771 ) | HMS Resolution by William Hodges ( 1772 )

William H. Crawford ( 1772 – 1834 )-U. S. Minister to France, U. S. Secretary of War, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, nearly successful candidate for President of the United States

* William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle ( 1772 – 1849 )

* William Nelson ( governor ) ( 1711 – 1772 ), American Colonial governor of Virginia

Ruth Henshaw Bascom ( 1772 – 1848 ), the wife of Reverend Ezekial Lysander Bascom and daughter of Colonel William Henshaw and Phebe Swan, became America's premier portrait folk artist and pastelist, producing over one thousand portraits from 1789 to 1846.

The Mohawk District, which became the original Town of Mohawk, was created in March 1772 by Sir William Johnson when Tryon County was split off from Albany County.

* William Wingfield ( 1772 – 1858 ), MP, Chief Justice of the Brecon Circuit

Honaker was settled as early as 1772 when William Ferrill established a homesite in the area.

During 1772, they asked Smeaton to survey a route to avoid the lower Aire, but his assistant, William Jessop actually carried out the work.