Editing 1775 (section)

=== January–March ===
* [[January 2]] – [[Henry Tufton, 11th Earl of Thanet]], English cricketer (d. [[1849]])
* [[January 3]] – [[Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont]], Irish politician (d. [[1863]])
* [[January 4]]
** [[George Weare Braikenridge]], English antiquarian (d. [[1856]])
** [[Carlo, Duke of Calabria]], Italian prince (d. [[1778]])
* [[January 6]]
** [[Date Narimura]], Japanese daimyō (d. [[1796]])
** [[Sir Horace St Paul, 1st Baronet|Horace St Paul]], English soldier and Member of Parliament (d. [[1840]])
* [[January 7]] – [[Thomas Amyot]], English antiquarian (d. [[1850]])
* [[January 9]]
** [[Juan Francisco Larrobla]], Uruguayan politician (d. [[1842]])
** [[Antonio Villavicencio]], statesman and soldier of New Granada (d. [[1816]])
* [[January 10]] – [[James Sewall Morsell]], United States federal judge (d. [[1870]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski]], Polish noble (d. [[1856]])
* [[January 15]] – [[Giosuè Sangiovanni]], Italian zoologist (d. [[1849]])
* [[January 18]]
** [[Pedro Moreno (soldier)|Pedro Moreno]], Mexican soldier (d. [[1817]])
** [[Evelyn Pierrepont (MP)|Evelyn Pierrepont]], British Member of Parliament (d. [[1801]])
* [[January 19]]
** [[Hudson Gurney]], English antiquary and verse-writer (d. [[1864]])
** [[George Pyke (politician)|George Pyke]], Canadian politician (d. [[1851]])
* [[January 20]] – [[André-Marie Ampère]], French physicist and mathematician (d. [[1836]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Carvill | first = James | title = Famous names in engineering | publisher = Butterworths | location = London Boston | year = 1981 | isbn = 9780408005401 | page=1 | language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 22]]
** [[Manuel García (tenor)|Manuel García]], Spanish singer, teacher and composer (d. [[1832]])

* [[January 23]]
** [[Pietro Colletta]], Neapolitan general and historian (d. [[1831]])
** [[José Fernández Salvador]], Ecuadorian politician and jurist (d. [[1853]])
** [[John Rubens Smith]], London-born painter (d. [[1849]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling]], German philosopher (d. [[1854]])
* [[January 28]]
** [[Lady Charlotte Bury]], English novelist (d. [[1861]])
** [[James Brown Mason]], American physician and legislator (d. [[1819]])
* [[January 30]] – [[Walter Savage Landor]], English writer and poet (d. [[1864]])
* [[January 31]]
** [[Giordano Bianchi Dottula]], Italian writer and politician (d. [[1846]])
** [[John Richard Farre]], English physician (d. [[1862]])
* [[February 1]]
** [[Philippe de Girard]], French engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame in 1810 (d. [[1845]])
** [[Jochum Nicolay Müller]], Norwegian naval officer who (d. [[1848]])
* [[February 2]] – [[Gurun Princess Hexiao]] of the Manchu dynasty (d. [[1823]])
* [[February 3]]
** [[Maximilien Sébastien Foy]], French military leader (d. [[1825]])
** [[Louis-François Lejeune]], French general, painter and printmaker (d. [[1848]])
* [[February 8]]
** [[Jacob Liv Borch Sverdrup]], Norwegian educator (d. [[1841]])
** [[Antonio Bertoloni]], Italian botanist who made extensive studies of Italian plants (d. [[1869]])
** [[Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth]], British politician (d. [[1855]])
* [[February 9]]
** [[Farkas Bolyai]], Hungarian mathematician (d. [[1856]])
** [[Theodor Hell]], pseudonym of Karl Gottfried Theodor Winkler, German man of letters (d. [[1856]])
* [[February 10]]
** [[Charles Lamb]], English essayist (d. [[1834]])
** [[James Wilkes Maurice]], British Royal Navy officer during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (d. [[1857]])
** [[Ádám Récsey]], Prime Minister of Hungary (October 3–7, 1848) (d. [[1852]])
* [[February 11]] – [[William Hall (governor)|William Hall]], American politician (d. [[1856]])
* [[February 12]] – [[Charles Lloyd (poet)|Charles Lloyd]], English poet (d. [[1839]])
* [[February 14]] – [[William Clift]], English medical illustrator and conservator (d. [[1849]])
* [[February 15]]
** [[Paul Allen (editor)|Paul Allen]], American author and editor (d. [[1826]])
** [[Miguel Ramos Arizpe]], Mexican priest (d. [[1843]])
* [[February 17]]
** [[Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath]], German portrait painter (d. [[1844]])
** [[Frederick Garling]], English attorney and solicitor (d. [[1848]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Thomas Girtin]], English painter and etcher (d. [[1802]])
* [[February 19]]
** [[John Bibby (businessman)|John Bibby]], founder of the British Bibby Line shipping company (d. [[1840]])
** [[Giovanni Battista Comolli]], Italian sculptor (d. [[1831]])
* [[February 20]]
** [[Guy-Victor Duperré]], French naval officer and Admiral of France (d. [[1846]])
** [[Israel Gregg]], first captain of the historic American steamboat [[Enterprise (1814)|''Enterprise'' (1814)]] (d. [[1847]])
** [[John Starr (politician)|John Starr]], merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia (d. [[1827]])
* [[February 21]]
** [[Jean-Baptiste Girard (soldier)|Jean-Baptiste Girard]], French soldier (d. [[1815]])
** [[Claudius Herrick]], American educator and minister (d. [[1831]])
* [[February 22]]
** [[William Seymour (Congressman)|William Seymour]], United States Representative from New York (d. [[1848]])
* [[February 24]]
** [[Claudius Hunter]], Lord Mayor of London (d. [[1851]])
** [[Matěj Kopecký]], Czech puppeteer (d. [[1847]])
** [[Edward St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset]], English landowner and amateur mathematician (d. [[1855]])
* [[February 25]] – [[John Caldwell (seigneur)|John Caldwell]], businessman and politician in Lower Canada (d. [[1842]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Adolf Stieler]], German cartographer and lawyer (d. [[1836]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Sophie Tieck]], German poet (d. [[1833]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley]], British politician (d. [[1854]])
* [[March 4]] – [[Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger]], Austrian portrait painter (d. [[1837]])
* [[March 5]]
** [[Charlotte Richardson]], English poet (d. [[1825]])
** [[Adam Elias von Siebold]], German gynecologist (d. [[1828]])
* [[March 9]]
** [[Jean Kickx (1775–1831)|Jean Kickx]], Belgian botanist and mineralogist (d. [[1831]])
** [[Constance Mayer]], French painter (d. [[1821]])
* [[March 10]]
** [[Marc-Antoine Jullien de Paris]], French journalist (d. [[1848]])
** [[Sir David Wedderburn, 1st Baronet]], Scottish businessman and politician (d. [[1858]])
* [[March 11]]
** [[Nils Landmark]], Norwegian politician (d. [[1859]])
** [[Pierre Jean François Turpin]], French botanist and illustrator (d. [[1840]])
* [[March 12]]
** [[Joseph Chitty]], English lawyer and legal writer (d. [[1841]])
** [[Henry Eckford (shipbuilder)|Henry Eckford]], Scottish-born American shipbuilder, naval architect, industrial engineer, entrepreneur (d. [[1832]])
** [[Michel Grendahl]], Norwegian politician (d. [[1849]])
** [[James Welsh (East India Company officer)|James Welsh]], English officer in the Madras Army of the East India Company (d. [[1861]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Samuel Street Jr.]], businessman in Upper Canada (d. [[1844]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Juan Bautista Arismendi]], Venezuelan patriot and general of the Venezuelan War of Independence (d. [[1841]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Ninian Edwards]], founding political figure of the state of Illinois (d. [[1833]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Ramsay Richard Reinagle]], English painter (d. [[1862]])
* [[March 22]]
** [[Johan Collett]], Norwegian politician and public administrator (d. [[1827]])
** [[Jack Crawford (sailor)|Jack Crawford]], British Royal Navy sailor, "Hero of Camperdown" (d. [[1831]])
** [[Armand Gouffé]], French poet (d. [[1845]])
* [[March 23]] – [[William Haseldine Pepys]], English physical scientist (d. [[1856]])
* [[March 24]]
** [[Pauline Auzou]], French painter and art instructor (d. [[1835]])
** [[Pierre Berthezène]], French Army general (d. [[1847]])
** [[Muthuswami Dikshitar]], South Indian poet and composer (d. [[1835]])
* [[March 25]] – [[John Johnston (Indian agent)|John Johnston]], United States Indian agent (d. [[1861]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Thomas Monteagle Bayly]], Virginian politician, lawyer and planter (d. [[1834]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Nicolai Abraham Holten]], Danish civil servant and director of Øresund Custom House (d. [[1850]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Johann Heinrich Gossler]], Hamburg banker and grand burgher (d. [[1842]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Hieronymus Karl Graf von Colloredo-Mansfeld]], Austrian corps commander during the Napoleonic Wars (d. [[1822]])