* 1705 – Charles-André van Loo, French painter ( d. 1765 )

* 1713 – Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician ( d. 1765 )

* 1765 – Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal ( d. 1840 )

* 1765 – Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician ( d. 1836 )

* 1692 – Comte de Caylus, French archaeologist ( d. 1765 )

* 1765 – Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille, French military leader ( d. 1794 )

In 1765 – 1783 they were under French occupation and again after the French captured the archipelago in 1783.

* October 28 – Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, duc de Feltre, French marshal and politician ( b. 1765 )

* July 5 – Nicéphore Niépce, French photography pioneer ( b. 1765 )

* January 25 – Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Count d ' Erlon, French marshal ( b. 1765 )

* January 21 – Jean-Baptiste Drouet, French revolutionary ( b. 1765 )

* May 3 – Alexis Claude Clairaut, French mathematician ( d. 1765 )

* February 15 – Charles-André van Loo, French painter ( d. 1765 )

At the death of his father in 1765, Charles's oldest surviving brother, Louis Auguste, became the new Dauphin ( the heir apparent to the French throne ).

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.

It is the third oldest city west of the Mississippi, founded in 1765 as Les Petites Côtes, " The Little Hills ", by Louis Blanchette, a French Canadian fur trader, and was the last " civilized " stop for the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804.

: In the year 1765, a French Canadian, called Blanchette Chasseur, animated by that love of adventure which characterizes all who have lived a roving and restless life, ascended the Missouri, with a few followers, for the purpose of forming a settlement in the then remote wilderness.

According to Hopewell's rather romantic account, Blanchette met another French Canadian ( Bernard Guillet ) at the site of St. Charles in 1765.

Then other European settlers came in groups, such as the first Acadians from Nova Scotia, who were sent there in 1765 by Jean-Jacques Blaise d ' Abbadie, the French official who was administering Louisiana for the Spanish.

Tryon Peak and the Town of Tryon are named for William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771 in recognition of his negotiation with the Cherokee for a treaty during a bloody period of the French and Indian War.

Other artists who were commissioned to record the appearance of the gardens were England's first landscape painter George Lambert ( 1700 – 1765 ), the French painter Jacques Rigaud ( 1681 – 1754 ) and the cartographer John Rocque ( 1709 – 1762 ) who produced an engraved survey of Chiswick in 1736 showing the Villa and many of its garden buildings.

She served against the French from 1756 and participated in the Battle of Lagos ( 1759 ) before being sold in 1765.

Nicéphore Niépce ( born Joseph Niépce ) March 7, 1765 – July 5, 1833 ) was a French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography and a pioneer in the field.

As early as 1765, Vergennes predicted that the loss of the French threat in North America would lead to the Americans " striking off their chains ".

* date unknown-Alexander Juhan, violinist, conductor and composer ( b. 1765 )

* January 30-John Addison, double-bass player and composer ( b. 1765 )

* September 4-Oliver Holden, composer and hymn-writer ( b. 1765 )

* March 24 – Thomas Attwood, organist and composer ( b. 1765 )

* March 11 – Anton Eberl, pianist, composer and music teacher ( b. 1765 )

* June 8 – Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer ( b. 1765 )

* April 8 – Jakub Jan Ryba, composer ( born 1765 ) ( suicide )

* October 2 – Daniel Steibelt, German pianist and composer ( b. 1765 )

** Peter Anton Kreusser, composer ( b. 1765 )

Richard Hull of nearby Leith Hill Place ( once home to the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams ) built " Prospect House " in the years 1765 to 1766, later to become known as Leith Hill Tower, with the intention of raising the hill above above sea level.

* September 7 – Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer ( died 1765 )

Jakub Šimon Jan Ryba ( 26 October 1765 – 8 April 1815 ) was a Czech teacher and composer of classical music.

* Thomas Attwood ( composer ) ( 1765 – 1838 ), English composer

* July – John Hebden, musician and composer ( died 1765 )

Friedrich Heinrich Himmel ( November 20, 1765 – June 8, 1814 ), German composer, was born at Treuenbrietzen in Brandenburg, Prussia, and originally studied theology at Halle before turning to music.

* 29 January – Carlmann Kolb, priest, organist and composer ( died 1765 )

* February 1 – Johan Agrell, German composer and violinist ( died 1765 )

John Hebden ( 1712 – 1765 ) was a composer and musician in 18th century Great Britain.

Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt ( October 22, 1765 ), was a German pianist and composer who died in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Thomas Attwood ( 23 November 1765 – 24 March 1838 ) was an English composer and organist.

Stephen Storace ( 1762 – 1796 ), the son of an Italian musician based in Dublin was an accomplished composer ; and his sister Anna, known as Nancy ( 1765 – 1817 ), formerly also a student of Rauzzini, a talented soprano.

* February 10 – Johann Melchior Molter, violinist and composer ( died 1765 )

Joseph Leopold Eybler ( born February 8, 1765, in Schwechat near Vienna ; and died July 24, 1846 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer known today perhaps more for his friendship with Mozart than for his own music.