• Sauk war chief Black Hawk.
• Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States.
• John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States.
• English author Maria Edgeworth.
• French painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey.
• French painter Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson.
• Joachim Murat, brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, and thus King of Sicily (1808-(1819).
• Ukrainian composer Artem Vendel.
• Scottish-born scientist (later Australian politician) Alexander Macleay.
• German poet August Wilhelm von Schlegel.
• German librettist Karl August von Lichtenstein.
• English (and later Australian) painter John Glover.
• French economist Jean Baptiste Say.

• Austrian composer Johann Schobert.
• German composer Georg Philipp Telemann.

• The British Parliament passes the Townshend Acts:
• In another attempt to raise revenue, duties are levied on glass, lead, paper, tea, and other goods.
• More blanket search warrants, known as Writs of Assistance, are issued.
• The New York assembly is suspended for not enforcing the Quartering Act of 1765.
• The Townshend Acts destroy the trust that had slowly been built after the intercession of William Pitt the previous year, and re-ignited the cycle of protesting and rioting in America. Protesters went so far as to tar and feather tax collectors.
• The Siamese capital of Ayuthaya is destroyed by an invading Burmese army.It will not be for two years that a new capital is founded, 47 miles downriver at a small village named Krung'thep.

1766 - 1767 - 1768