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• English engraver Thomas Bewick
• English architect Sir John Soane.
• English actress and playwright Elizabeth Inchbald.
• French philosopher Lazare Carnot, Minister of War during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era.
• Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the 1810 Mexican uprising, often called "Father of Mexico".
• Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart.
• French geographer Philippe Buache, who explained how river systems drain continents.
• Maryland signer of the Declaration of Independence James McHenry, in Ireland.
• American poet and author Phyllis Wheatley, in Africa.
• French aviation pioneer Jean-Pierre François Blanchard.
• British physicist and military innovator Benjamin Thompson Rumford.
• American evangelist Lemuel Haynes.
• French reactionary philosohpher Joseph de Maistre.
• Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro.
• Japanese poet and painter Tagami Kikusha.
• Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum.

• English philosopher and mathematician, Bishop George Berkeley.
• Swedish guitar composer Hedvig Mörner.

• James Lind discovers that scurvy is caused by a dietary deficiency.  He publishes his findings in A Treatise of the Scurvy which finds that oranges and limes seem to prevent the disease. British naval ships begin stocking citrus fruits to prevent scurvy, and thus earn British sailors the moniker "Limey".
• 21-year-old George Washington leads a band of Virginia soldiers into the Ohio country.  At the "Forks of the Ohio" (Pittsburgh) he finds a location well-suited to build a fort.  Washington conveys British demands for the French to vacate Fort Presque'Isle (Erie, Pennsylvania).  A French Indian agent tells Washington that they intend to take the whole territory.  After much hardship, he returns to Williamsburg to tell his story.
• Sweden adopts the Gregorian Calendar.   All of a sudden, February 17 is March 1st.  Many people think the government robbed them of 11 days of their life!

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