Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1759
Birthdays
- January 25 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
- January 31 - François Devienne, French composer (d. 1803)
- February 15 - Friedrich August Wolf, German archaeologist (d. 1824)
- March 22 - Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)
- April 27 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (d. 1797)
- May 20 - William Thornton, West Indian-born architect (d. 1828)
- May 28 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806)
- June 21 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
- July 19 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
- August 24 - William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (d. 1833)
- September 19 - William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)
- September 23 - Clothilde of France, queen of piedmont-Sardinia (d. 1802)
- October 4 - Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803)
- October 20 - Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815)
- October 25 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (d. 1828)
- October 25 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
- October 26 - Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794)
- November 10 - Friedrich von Schiller, German writer (d. 1805)
Deaths
- January 1 - Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie
- January 12 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1709)
- March 11 - John Forbes, British general (b. 1710)
- April 14 - George Frideric Handel, German composer (b. 1685)
- May 12 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
- July 27 - Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (b. 1698)
- August 6 - Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
- August 8 - Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (b. 1704)
- August 10 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain, (b. 1713)
- August 24 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b. 1715)
- September 10 - Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)
- September 13 - James Wolfe, British general (b. 1727)
- September 14 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (b. 1712)
- October 10 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
- October 13 - John Henley, English minister (b. 1692)
- November 29 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687)
Events
- January 5 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
- January 11 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
- January 15 - The British Museum opens.
- May 31 - The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
- June 27 - General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
- July 25 - French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouill¨¦.
- September 12 - British soldiers capture the town of Quebec.
- September 13 - Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
- September 18 - The British capture Quebec City.
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