Ordained in the Church of England in 1764, Newton became curate of Olney, Buckinghamshire, where he began to write hymns with poet William Cowper.

* 1764 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician ( b. 1683 )

* 1684 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician ( d. 1764 )

* November 10 – William Hogarth, English artist ( d. 1764 )

During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 – 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 – 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ).

In the foreground, he has grouped the leading statesmen from the Lords: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey ( 1764 – 1845 ), William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne ( 1779 – 1848 ) and the Whiggy ( British political faction ) | Whigs on the left ; and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ( 1769 – 1852 ) and the Tories ( political faction ) | Tories on the right.

The architect of the Second Bank of the United States was William Strickland ( 1788 – 1854 ), a former student of Benjamin Latrobe ( 1764 – 1820 ), the man who is often called the first professionally-trained American architect.

* William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 )

* Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet ( 1764 – 1851 ), businessman and Member of Parliament ( MP ), father of William Ewart Gladstone

* Sir Sidney Smith ( Royal Navy officer ) ( William Sidney Smith, 1764 – 1840 ), British admiral

William was a Congregational minister and presided over his daughter's wedding in 1764.

William Hogarth ( 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764 ) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art.

* Lieutenant William Cox ( 1764 – 1837 ), Australian pioneer born in Wimborne.

* William Eaton ( 1764 – 1811 ), military adventurer during the Barbary Wars.

The town was founded by William Gilliland in 1764 who surveyed an area in the southern part of the town and was granted ; he also established the neighboring towns of Elizabethtown and Willsboro.

After William's death in 1764, the villa passed to his and Charlotte's orphaned young son, William, the 5th Duke of Devonshire.

William Cavendish died in 1764, leaving the property to his son William, the 5th Duke of Devonshire.

It derives its name from Gen. William Eaton ( 1764 – 1811 ), the U. S. Consul at Tunis, who led a diverse army in a harrowing march from Egypt to Tripoli to meet the U. S. Naval forces.

In 1764, Stiles played an influential role in the establishment of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( the original name for Brown University ) by contributing substantially to the drafting of its charter and by serving with thirty-five others-including Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Samuel Ward, the Reverend John Gano, the Reverend Isaac Backus, the Reverend Samuel Stillman, and the Reverend James Manning-as a founding fellow or trustee.

While advising the Board of Trade on August 30, 1764, Sir William Johnson expressed that

Three years later, William Card's grandsons ( Jonathan Card's two young sons ), Thomas ( 1762 – 1850 ) and Jonathan ( 1764 – 1836 ), would serve in Colonel Herrick's Vermont regiment on the " Yankee " or Patriot lines during 1780 / 1.

* William McMillan, ( 1764 – 1804 ), born in Abingdon, lawyer.

* Castle Hill, 1764, Albemarle County -- home of Thomas Walker ( explorer ) and William Cabell Rives

Even after a successful trial in Barbados in 1764 observed by Maskelyne, Harrison was required to produce detailed drawings and build two more chronometers, one of which was eventually tested by King George III himself.

Corbin Washington ( 1764 – 1799 ), son of Col. John Augustine Washington ( 1736 – 1787 ) and Hannah Bushrod ( 1738 – 1801 ).

In 1764, the Marshal's son sold the estate to the Duke of Praslin, whose descendants would maintain the property for over a century.

Joseph Rogers was born August 21, 1764 near Cook's Town, Ireland, the son of James Rogers and his wife Elizabeth Brown.

* Peter Brooke, son ( 1764 – 87 ), 1786 – 87 ;

His son, John Grundy, Jr., took over after the death of his father in 1748, and spent nearly £ 10, 000 on bank repairs between then and 1764.

Her maternal grandfather was Prince Paul of Württemberg, a son of King Frederick I of Württemberg and his ill-fated consort Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ( 1764 – 88 ).

* In his chief publications J. H. Michaelis had as fellow-worker his sister's son Christian Benedikt Michaelis ( 1680 – 1764 ), the father of Johann David, who was likewise influential as professor at the University of Halle, and a sound scholar, especially in Syriac.

By her second marriage with Claude Dupin de Franceuil, Marie Aurore married in 1764 Antoine, comte d ' Horne ( 1735 – 1765 ), an illegitimate son of Louis XV of France by an unknown mother.

His only son, William Boyce, Jr ( 25 Mar 1764 – 1824 ), was a professional double bass player.

He was married twice, and succeeded as Earl of Cork by his son Hamilton, who died in 1764 and passed the earldom to John's next son, Edmund.

He was born at Inveresk, Scotland, near Edinburgh, the son of Major William Yule ( 1764 – 1839 ), translator of the Apothegms of Ali.

Granted as Upper Coos in 1763 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth to Captain David Page of Petersham, Massachusetts, the town was settled in 1764 by his son, David Page, Jr. and Emmons Stockwell.

** George Campbell, Earl of Campbell ( 1763 – 1764 ) ( eldest son of the 5th Duke, died in infancy )

* General Lord Charles FitzRoy ( 14 July 1764 – 20 December 1829 ), who married, firstly, Frances Mundy ( 1773 – 9 August 1797 ) on 20 June 1795, and had one son.

* James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl ( 1690 – 1764 ) ( third son of the 1st Duke )

The eldest son, Charles, the 3rd viscount ( 1700 – 1764 ), was called to the House of Lords in 1723.

Her son Ivan VI was murdered in Shlisselburg on 16 July 1764, while her husband Anthony Ulrich died in Kholmogory on 19 March 1776.

He was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, December 31, 1764, the son of Thomas Daggett.

Madame de Buffon ’ s second child, a son born in 1764, survived childhood ; she herself died in 1769.

1685 – 1764 ) was a German composer and organist, elder son of Johann Pachelbel.

* Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, 4th Duke of Lennox ( 1764 – 1819 ), only son of General Lord George Lennox, fourth and youngest son of the 2nd Duke