* 1702 – Johann Valentin Görner, German composer ( d. 1762 )

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (; May 19, 1762 – January 27, 1814 ) was a German philosopher.

Johann Tobias Krebs ( 7 July 1690 – 11 February 1762 ) was a German organist and composer.

It was proposed that the force on magnetic poles, by Johann Tobias Mayer and others in 1760, and electrically charged objects, by Henry Cavendish in 1762, obeyed an inverse-square law.

** Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher ( born 1762 )

* March 27 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer ( d. 1762 )

After Schulze had seriously criticized the notion of a thing-in-itself, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ( 1762 – 1814 ) produced a philosophy similar to Kant's, but without a thing-in-itself.

* Johann Gottlieb Fichte ( 1762 – 1814 ), philosopher, rector of the university ( 1810 – 1812 )

His son Johann Ludwig Alexius Freiherr von Laudon ( 1762 – 1822 ) fought in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars with credit, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-field-marshal.

Jan Frederik Gronovius ( also seen as Johann Frederik and Johannes Fredericus ) ( 10 February 1686, Leiden – 10 July 1762, Leiden ) was a Dutch botanist notable as a patron of Linnaeus.

Johann Georg Hiedler ( baptised 28 February 1792 – 9 February 1857 ) was born to Martin Hiedler ( 17 November 1762 – 10 January 1829 ) and Anna Maria Göschl ( August 23, 1760 – 7 December 1854 ).

* Johann Tobias Krebs ( 1690 – 1762 ), composer, father of J. L.

Two astronomers particularly known for attempting to expand Ptolemy's catalogue were Johann Bayer ( 1572 – 1625 ) and Nicolas Louis de Lacaille ( 1713 – 1762 ).

In 1762, Johann Christian Bach travelled to London to première three operas at the theatre, including Orione on 19 February 1763.

Thinkers such as Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and Johann Gottlieb Fichte ( 1762 – 1814 ) had written on the concept and importance of world history and nationalism, and Hegel's philosophy continues this trend, while breaking away from an emphasis on nationalism and striving rather to grasp the full sweep of human cultural and intellectual history as a manifestation of spirit.

Johann Ernst Eberlin ( 27 March 1702 – 19 June 1762 ) was a German composer and organist whose works bridge the baroque and classical eras.

* February 27 – Johann Valentin Görner, composer ( died 1762 )

* March 27 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer ( died 1762 )

The elder Mayer, himself a well-known Göttingen professor of geography, physics, and astronomy, died in 1762 when Johann was only ten.

Founded in 1795 by Johann Jacob Rieter ( 1762 – 1826 ), the company initially produced textile products.

* Johann Schmidt ( 1693 – 1762 ) – historian

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762 – 1796, was a member of the House of Ascania, herself the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.

In 1762, he started his career as a page of Carl Christian Joseph of Saxony, Duke of Courland and a vassal of the Polish king.

He was the son of Christian Bouck ( 1753 – 1836 ) and Margaret ( Borst ) Bouck ( 1762 – 1806 ).

Étienne Louis Geoffroy used Melolontha as a genus name ( 1762 ), but his book has been suppressed by the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, and the authority for the name is the later ( 1775 ) publication by Johan Christian Fabricius.

* Karl Christian Agthe, composer, born June 16, 1762 in Hettstedt, died November 27, 1797

The story of Sophonisba also served as subject for works by John Marston ( 1606 ), David Murray ( 1610 ), Nathaniel Lee ( 1676 ), Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein ( 1680 ), Henry Purcell ( 1685 ), Antonio Caldara ( 1708 ), Leonardo Leo ( 1718 ), Luca Antonio Predieri ( 1722 ), James Thomson ( 1729 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1746 ), Baldassare Galuppi ( 1747, 1764 ), Tommaso Traetta ( 1762 ), Antonio Boroni ( 1764 ), Christopher Gluck ( 1765 ), Maria Teresa Agnesi ( 1765 ), Mattia Vento ( 1766 ), François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, revised by Voltaire ( 1770 ), Christian Gottlob Neefe ( 1776 ), António Leal Moreira ( 1783 ), Joseph Joaquín Mazuelo ( 1784 ), Vittorio Alfieri ( 1789 ), Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1802 ), Marcos Portugal ( 1803 ), Ferdinando Paer ( 1805 ), Vincenzo Federici ( 1805 ), Luigi Petrali ( 1844 ), Emanuel Geibel ( 1869 ), Jeronim de Rada ( 1892 ), Giuseppe Brunati ( 1904 ), Dimitrie Cuclin ( 1945 ), Vasco Graça Moura ( 1993 ), and others.

Christian August Vulpius ( 23 January 1762 – 25 June 1827 ) was a German novelist and dramatist.

* Christian Louis ( 1762 – 91 )

* Edmund Ignatius Rice ( 1762 – 1844 ) Founded the Christian Brothers, Educated the poor.

The history of Bishop Heber Hall could be traced back to a similar school started by a German missionary Christian Frederick Schwartz at Trichy in 1762.

In 1762, Bach travelled to London to première three operas at the King's Theatre, including Orione on 19 February 1763.

This work, which contained only the first six and the eleventh and twelfth books, and to which, in its English version, he added the Data in 1762, was for long the standard text of Euclid in England.

In 1762, Sabah I died and was succeeded by his youngest son, Abdullah.

Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.

* 1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities ; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.

Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have committed suicide.

# Stillborn son ( 1762 ).

On 28 March 1762 the Count of Eu, son of the Duke of Maine, cedes the region Dombes to Louis XV.

Born in Poitiers, France, Joseph Bouzage came to the Gulf Coast circa 1760, married Catherine Louise Baudreau ( Boudreau ) on June 5, 1762, and was the father of seven children, including one son, Jean Baptiste.

His eldest son, the third Earl, was also a successful military commander, best known as the commander-in-chief of the invasion and occupation of Havana and west Cuba in 1762.

First to settle here was Deacon Pease Clark, who emigrated with his wife and son Peter from Attleborough, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1762.

Lord George Cavendish, second son of the third Duke, was a long-standing Member of Parliament and served as Comptroller of the Household from 1761 to 1762.

In 1762 James Parke Farley, son of Francis Farley, went to Williamsburg to attend the College of William and Mary and soon after married Elizabeth Hill Byrd, daughter of William Byrd III and Elizabeth Hill Carter.

These were Peter Studebaker ( 1747 – 1812 ) — probably a son of the immigrant Clement Studebecker ( 1700 – 1762 ) and his wife Anna Catherine — and his son Peter Studebaker Jr.

The first settler in the area of what would become Hartland was William Orser ( b. 1762 ) and his son William Jr. William traveled there from New York with his wife and six children.

Lady Sarah refused a proposal of marriage from James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll before she married Charles Bunbury, eldest son of Reverend Sir William Bunbury, 5th Baronet, on 2 June 1762 at Holland House Chapel, Kensington, London.

* Richard ( died 1762 ), married Margaret Meadows ; his eldest son, Philip Taylor ( 1747 – 1831 ), was presbyterian minister at Kay Street, Liverpool ( 1767 ), and at Eustace Street, Dublin ( 1771 ), and grandfather of Meadows Taylor ; his second son, John Taylor, the hymn-writer.

His father, John Dyer Collier ( 1762 – 1825 ), was a successful journalist, and his connection with the press obtained for his son a position on the Morning Chronicle as leader writer, dramatic critic and reporter, which continued till 1847 ; he was also for some time a reporter for The Times.

George Colman ( 21 October 1762 – 17 October 1836 ), known as " the Younger ", English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, was the son of George Colman " the Elder ".

Franklin had one son William Temple Franklin, who was born out of wedlock on 22 Feb 1762 in the County of Middlesex, London, England.

He married Abigail Hale ( 1733 – 1821 ) on April 13, 1758, and they had one son, also named William, in 1762.

John was succeeded in 1762 by his son the Drigue who died childless in 1797, aged 40, when New Hall devolved on his sister, the Honourable Elizabeth.

Andrew's father, Charles Dillon McGill ( 1802 – 1875 ), was the youngest son of Patrick ( 1762 – 1832 ) and Anna ( née Baird ) McGill.

Johnson named the settlement after his son, John Johnson, and by 1762 constructed a baronial hall.