• Scottish political reformer Thomas Hardy (not the 19th-century novelist).
• American seamstress Betsy Ross, subject of a popular legend about the first American flag.
• American statesman Gouverneur Morris.
• Maryland American Revolutionary War leader John Eager Howard.
• English poet Thomas Chatterton.
• French mathematician Adrian-Marie Legendre.
• English architect John Nash.
• English novelist Fanny Burney.
• Italian composer Muzio Clementi.
• German anatomist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.
• American political writer Philip Freneau.
• English Landscape gardener Humphrey Repton.
• German naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.
• French inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard.
• Japanese artist Torii Kiyonaga.

• English philosopher Joseph Butler.
• Swiss mathematician Gabriel Cramer.
• French painter Jean-François de Troy.
• William Bradford, pioneer of printing in the American colonies.

• Benjamin Franklin performs some experiments with electricity.
• (September 3)-(September 13) never happen in Great Britain and its colonies when they adopt the Gregorian Calendar.  Riots, of course break out when people assume the government has stolen eleven days of their lives.
• King Frederick II of Prussia lays out his Political Testament.
• France becomes rather aggressive in the Ohio country.  They build several forts south of the Great Lakes, especially Fort Presque'Isle (Erie, Pennsylvania).  They and Indian allies attack and destroy a settlement  of Miami Indians, allies of the British.
• Afghanistan conquers Kashmir from the Mughal Empire.

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