* 1766 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter and printmaker ( d. 1853 )

* 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist ( d. 1828 )

* 1674 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect, designed the Veltrusy Mansion ( d. 1766 )

* 1766 – Collin McKinney, American surveyor, merchant, politician, and preacher, helped draft the Texas Declaration of Independence ( d. 1861 )

** 1802 – 1803 Johann Heinrich Rothpletz ( b. 1766 – d. 1833 )

* 1766 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic ( b. 1685 )

The Qianlong Emperor in ceremonial armor on horseback, painted by Giuseppe Castiglione ( 1688 – 1766 ) | Giuseppe Castiglione, dated 1739 or 1758.

* Ioannis Papadiamantopoulos ( 1766 – 1826 ), revolutionary leader during the Greek War of Independence.

* Harper's Weekly 150 cartoons on elections 1860-1912 ; Reconstruction topics ; Chinese exclusion ; plus American Political Prints from the Library of Congress, 1766 – 1876

** Robert Darwin ( 1766 – 1848 ), physician, father of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

* George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough ( 1766 – 1840 ), elder son of the 4th Duke

* 1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale.

* 1766 – Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer ( d. 1826 )

* Robert Waring Darwin ( 1766 – 1848 ), father of the naturalist Charles Darwin

* 1766 – Thomas Robert Malthus, English demographer and political economist ( d. 1834 )

* 1693 – James Quin, English actor ( d. 1766 )

John Leslie ( 1766 – 1832 ) noted a weakness in the views of Amontons and Coulomb.

* 1700 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer ( d. 1766 )

* Frederick V of Denmark ( 1723 – 1766 ), king of Denmark and Norway

Hanover was chartered by Governor Benning Wentworth on July 4, 1761, and in 1765 – 1766 its first inhabitants arrived, the majority from Connecticut.

* 1704 – John Taylor, English scholar ( d. 1766 )

* 1766 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator ( d. 1813 )

A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made circa 1766 for Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet | Henry Moore, Royal Governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than two miles from the city.

In 1766, Henry Cavendish ( 1731 – 1810 ) discovered hydrogen.

In 1766, the British scientist Henry Cavendish had discovered hydrogen, by adding sulphuric acid to iron, tin, or zinc shavings.

* 1766 Henry Cavendish discovers and studies hydrogen

* Rutgers College – Chartered as Queen's college in 1766, and renamed for benefactor Henry Rutgers ( above ) in 1825, this institution continued to exist by this name as a liberal arts college after Rutgers became a university in 1924, and continued to exist as such until 2007 when it was merged with other colleges into the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.

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 ).

He was the eldest son of John Henry ( d. 1766 ), a merchant whose father, Alexander Henry ( d. 1744 ), had emigrated to British North America from the West of England to seek his fortune.

* Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton: 12 July 1765 – 14 May 1766

* Henry Seymour Conway: 23 May 1766 – 20 January 1768

* Henry Seymour Conway MP: 12 July 1765-23 May 1766

Copley's fame was established in England by the exhibition, in 1766, of A Boy with a Squirrel, which depicted his half-brother, Henry Pelham, seated at a table and playing with a pet squirrel.

* 7 November 1745 – 22 October 1766: His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales

Remsen was named for Henry Remsen II, the original proprietor of the township and the inheritor of the Remsenburgh patent, which embraced some in Oneida and Herkimer counties and was granted in 1766 ( later regranted by the Legislature in 1787 ) to Remsen and four other New York merchants.

* Henry Andrews 1744-1820, astronomer and astrologer, moved to Royston in 1766 and is buried in the graveyard of St John's Church.

* Secretary of State for the Northern Department: Henry Seymour Conway ( 1766 – 1768 ), Lord Weymouth ( 1768 ), Lord Rochford ( 1768 – 1770 )

* Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort ( 1766 – 1835 ), eldest son of the 5th Duke

After settling in Plymouth, James inherited his father's position as sheriff and Mercy bore him five sons, James ( 1757 – 1821 ), Winslow ( 1759 – 1791 ), Charles ( 1762 – 1784 ), Henry ( 1764 – 1828 ), and George ( 1766 – 1800 ).

* Henry Pitts Forster ( 1766 ?– 1815 )

After her death in 1766 he married secondly Mary Bilson-Legge, 1st Baroness Stawell, daughter of Edward Stawell, 4th Baron Stawell and widow of Henry Bilson-Legge, in 1768.

* Henry Conyngham, 3rd Baron Conyngham ( 1766 – 1832 ) ( created Marquess Conyngham in 1816 )

* Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham ( 1766 – 1832 )

* Henry Thomas Cary, 8th Viscount Falkland ( 1766 – 1796 )