* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

* 1724 – Lyman Hall, American physician, clergyman, and statesman, signer of United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1790 )

* 1790 – The first US Census is conducted.

* Wiguläus von Kreittmayr ( 1705 – 1790 ): by marriage Lord of Offenstetten and Hatzkofen

* 1726 – James Bowdoin, American politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1790 )

* 1790 – Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and politician ( d. 1838 )

* 1790 – A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service ( the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard ).

* 1767 – Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg ( d. 1790 )

* Two poets, Johann Peter Uz ( 1720 – 1796 ) and August von Platen-Hallermünde ( 1790 – 1835 ), were also born there.

* Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790 Text of biography by Rev.

But John Austin ( 1790 – 1859 ), an early positivist, applied utilitarianism in accepting the calculating nature of human beings and the existence of an objective morality.

The town was finally reconstructed by sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah ( 1756 – 1790 ), the grandson of Moulay Ismail and ally of George Washington with the help of Spaniards from the nearby emporium.

* 1790 – King Leopold I of Belgium ( d. 1865 )

* 1790 – The U. S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* 1790 – Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.

* 1721 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher ( d. 1790 )

David Brewster was born at the Canongate in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire to Margaret Key ( 1753 – 1790 ) and James Brewster ( c. 1735 – 1815 ), the rector of Jedburgh Grammar School and a teacher of high reputation.

* 1865 – King Leopold I of Belgium ( b. 1790 )

* 1790 – The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.

* 1730 – Capel Bond, English organist and composer ( d. 1790 )

Major ENSO events were recorded in the years 1790 – 93, 1828, 1876 – 78, 1891, 1925 – 26, 1972 – 73, 1982 – 83, 1997 – 98 and 2009 – 2010, with 1997-1998 being one of the strongest ever.

* 1742 – William Hooper, American lawyer and politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1790 )

* Emily Schotten ( 1790 – 1861 ), who married William W. Ellsworth, named by Webster as an executor of his will.

Two members of the British Royal Family have studied at Trinity and been awarded degrees as a result: Prince William of Gloucester and Edinburgh, who gained an MA in 1790, and Prince Charles, who was awarded a lower second class BA in 1970.

William Abbot ( 12 June 1790 – 1 June 1843 ( age 53 )), was an English actor.

* June 28 – William Hooper, American statesman ( d. 1790 )

* March 20 – William Wentworth, Australian explorer ( b. 1790 )

* November 30 – William Livingston, American politician and journalist ( d. 1790 )

* April 15 – William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist ( d. 1790 )

In 1790, John Marshall, a private attorney and a veteran of the Continental Army, represented the board of the College of William and Mary, in litigation that required him to defend that corporation's right to reorganize itself and in the process remove professors, The Rev John Bracken v. The Visitors of Wm & Mary College ( 7 Va. 573 ; 1790 Supreme Court of Virginia ).

In 1719, Codrington and the island of Barbuda had its first census ( of both people and livestock ), conducted by Sir William Codrington ( 1715 – 1790 ).

Sir William Pulteney, a British baronet and English land speculator, along with his partners in the Pulteney Association, purchased a of the former Phelps and Gorham Purchase in 1790.

Their children were born on his family's plantation near Timber Ridge Church, including Sam Houston on March 2, 1793, the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born: Children-Paxton 1783, Robert 1787, James 1788, John Paxton 1790 ( first clerk of Izard County, Arkansas 1819-1838 ), Samuel 1793, William 1794, Isabella 1796, Mary Blair 1797, and Elizabeth Ann 1800.

William Henry Harrison inherited the plantation, then named Walnut Grove, in 1790 and held it for three years.

His mother, Eleanor Gertrude Gooderham, was a Canadian-born granddaughter of prominent Canadian distiller William Gooderham ( 1790 – 1881 ), founder of the Gooderham and Worts Distillery.

Cabinet-makers associated with London-made marquetry furniture, 1765 – 1790, include Thomas Chippendale and less familiar names, like John Linnell, the French craftsman Pierre Langlois, and the firm of William Ince and John Mayhew.

The building was named for General William Lenoir, first chairman of the Board of Trustees of the university in 1790.

The county is named for William Trousdale ( 1790 – 1872 ), Brigadier General in the Mexican War, Governor of Tennessee, 1849 – 1851, and U. S. Minister to Brazil, 1853-1857.

* William Blake, artist and visionary, occupied a house at Hercules Road, at the boundary of Kennington and Lambeth, between 1790 and 1800.

* Map Guide to the U. S. Federal Censuses, 1790 – 1920, Thorndale, William, and Dollarhide, William ; Copyright 1987.

* William Cullen ( 1710 – 1790 ) physician, chemist, early medical researcher

* William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, later 6th Duke of Devonshire ( William George Spencer Cavendish ; called " Hart "; 21 May 1790 – 18 January 1858 ), never married.