* 1703 – Johann Gottlieb Graun, German Baroque / Classical era composer and violinist ( d. 1771 )

* June 16 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick, German noble and general ( killed in battle ) ( b. 1771 )

* February 1 – Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor ( d. 1771 )

* December 28 – Johann Heinrich Gottlob Justi, leading German Kameralist in the 18th century ( d. 1771 )

Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke ( 22 March 1771 – 27 June 1848 ) was a German author and reformer.

* Konrad Ernst Ackermann ( 1712 – 1771 ), German actor

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

Georg Friedrich Creuzer ( 10 March 1771, Marburg – 6 February 1858, Heidelberg ) was a German philologist and archaeologist.

The German traveller Gmelin, who visited this country a. d. 1771, says that in the space of eight miles, on the road from Resht to Amot, 250 of such streams are to be seen, many of them being so exceedingly broad and deep, that the passage across is sometimes impracticable for weeks together.

* January 16 – Heinrich Christoph Kolbe, German portrait painter ( b. 1771 )

* February 26 – Alois Senefelder ( born 1771 ), German inventor.

* Johann Baptist Cramer ( 1771 – 1858 ), German composer

It was not until 1761, when he was in his eightieth year, that he brought out the great work which, once for all, made pathological anatomy a science, and diverted the course of medicine into new channels of exactness or precision — the De Sedibus et causis morborum per anatomem indagatis, which during the succeeding ten years, notwithstanding its bulk, was reprinted several times ( thrice in four years ) in its original Latin, and was translated into French ( 1765 ), English ( 1769 ), and German ( 1771 ).

Johann Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim ( Grigorij Ivanovitsch Fischer von Waldheim ( Григорий Иванович Фишер фон Вальдгейм ) in Russian ) ( 13 October 1771 – 18 October 1853 ) was a German anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist.

One is entitled The Alchymist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone ( 1771 ) and it depicts the discovery of the element phosphorus by German alchemist Hennig Brand in 1669.

Taub's daughter Elizabeth married Joseph Conrad Winebiddle, a German immigrant who moved to Lawrenceville in 1771, founded a tannery, and used the profits to buy Taub's land.

Konrad Ernst Ackermann ( 1 February 1710 – 13 November 1771 ) was a German actor.

Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler ( 1 August 1771 or 1772 – December 8, 1813 ) was a German naturalist.

Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener ( 17 September 1714 – 22 March 1771 ), was a German writer of prose satires.

Lessing's Emilia Galotti of 1771 is a classic example of the German Bürgerliches Trauerspiel.

Johann Alois Senefelder ( 6 November 1771 – 26 February 1834 ) was a German actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in 1796.

His governor was the Count Johann Eustach von Görtz, a German nobleman of the old strait-laced school ; but a more humane element was introduced into his training when, in 1771, Christoph Martin Wieland was appointed his tutor.

The study of zoölogy, and particularly of microorganisms, meanwhile began to occupy his attention almost exclusively, and in 1771 he produced a work in German on “ Certain Worms inhabiting Fresh and Salt Water ,” which described many new species of those annulose animals called by Linnaeus aphroditae and nereides, and gave much additional information respecting their habits.

Johann Baptist Cramer ( 24 February 1771 – 16 April 1858 ) was an English musician of German origin.

* Humphry Clinker, title character of Tobias Smollett's 1771 novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

* Jacques le fataliste et son maître, novel ( 1771 – 1778 )

* Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ) wrote the novel The Heart of Midlothian and lived at Lasswade Cottage ( now Sir Walter Scott's Cottage ) in Lasswade from 1798 to 1804, where he wrote his Grey Brother, translation of Goetz von Berlichingen, etc.

* Tabitha Bramble and Winifred Jenkins, two characters in Tobias Smollett's 1771 novel Humphrey Clinker, are founts of malapropisms:

In The Happy Return, the first novel by order of publication, Hornblower was born June 11 in 1771.

Published in London on 17 June 1771, it is an epistolary novel, presented in the form of letters written by six different characters: Matthew Bramble, a Welsh Squire ; his sister Tabitha ; their niece and nephew, Jery and Lydia Melford ; Tabitha's maid Winifred Jenkins ; and Lydia's suitor, Wilson.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 1771 ), first published in 1751, and revised and reissued in 1758.

Louis Petit de Bachaumont () ( June 2, 1690 – April 29, 1771 ) was a French writer, whose historical interest has been connected largely to his alleged role in the gossipy Mémoires secrets pour servir à l ' histoire de la République des Lettres.

Bachaumont's name is commonly connected with the first volumes of this register, which was published anonymously, long after Petit de Bachaumont's death, under the title Mémoires secrets pour servir à l ' histoire de la République des Lettres, but his exact share in the authorship of those years before his death in 1771 is a matter of controversy.

* Sur les inégalités de la lumière des satellites de Jupiter, 1771

( 1786 – 1791 ), his Mosaisches Recht ( 1770 – 1771 ) ( quite influenced by Montesquieu's L ' esprit des lois of 1748 ) and his edition of Edmund Castell's LCXI con syriacum ( 1787 – 1788 ).

* Abhandlung von freier Untersuchung des Kanon ( Halle, 1771 – 1775 )

Cugnot's 1771 fardier à vapeur, as preserved at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris.

Engine part of Cugnot's 1771 fardier à vapeur, as preserved at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris.

The regular reports which Pallas sent to St Petersburg were collected and published as Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs through various provinces of the Russian Empire ( 3 vols., 1771 – 1776 ).

* Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs ( Saint Petersburg, 1771 — 1801 ).

In Mémoire sur la résolution des équations ( 1771 ) he reported on symmetric functions and solution of cyclotomic polynomials ; this paper anticipated later Galois theory ( see also abstract algebra for the role of Vandermonde in the genesis of group theory ).

In Remarques sur des problèmes de situation ( 1771 ) he studied knight's tours, and presaged the development of knot theory by explicitly noting the importance of topological features when discussing the properties of knots:

Ruffini developed Joseph Louis Lagrange's work on permutation theory, following 29 years after Lagrange ’ s " Réflexions sur la théorie algébrique des equations " ( 1770 – 1771 ) which was largely ignored until Ruffini who established strong connections between permutations and the solvability of algebraic equations.

His Cours d ' architecture ou traité de la décoration, distribution et constructions des bâtiments contenant les leçons données en 1750, et les années suivantes began appearing in 1771 and ran to nine volumes by 1777, a volume of plates to each two volumes of text ; the last volumes were seen through the press by his disciple Pierre Patte.

On November 5, 1771, he was married to Jeanne Marguerite Marie Destrehan des Tours, a member of a prominent and wealthy Louisiana family.