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Year 1766 (MDCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar. Events <onlyinclude> January–June July–December Date unknown </onlyinclude> Births - January 6 – Jos Gaspar Rodr guez de Francia, Supreme Leader of Paraguay (d. 1840)
- February 14 – Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (d. 1834)
- April 6 – Charles Louis de Fourcroy, Chevalier de la L gion D'honneur, French mathematician and scholar (death unknown)
- April 22 – Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, French author (d. 1817)
- May 30 – Robert Darwin, medical doctor and father of Charles Darwin (d. 1848)
- June 13 – Jean-Fr d ric Waldeck (d. 1875)
- July 8 – Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842)
- July 21 – Thomas Charles Hope, Scottish chemist and discoverer of strontium (d. 1844)
- August 6 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)
- September 6 – John Dalton, English chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
- October 23 – Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (d. 1847)
- November 2 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
- December 3 – Barbara Fritchie, U.S. patriot in the Civil War (d. 1862)
Deaths - January 1 – James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (b. 1688)
- January 9 – Thomas Birch, English historian (b. 1705)
- January 13 – King Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
- January 19 – Giovanni Niccol Servandoni, French architect and painter (b. 1695)
- January 21 – James Quin, English actor (b. 1693)
- February 5 – Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
- February 23 – Stanislaus I Leszczy ski, King of Poland (b. 1677)
- April 4 – John Taylor, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
- April 7 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (b. 1685)
- May 5 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
- May 8 – Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (b. 1693)
- June 24 – Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (b. 1678)
- July 9 – Jonathan Mayhew, American minister and patriot (b. 1720)
- July 11 – Elizabeth Farnese, queen of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
- July 14 – Franti ek Maxmili n Ka ka, Czech architect (b. 1674)
- September 3 – Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (b. 1686)
- September 13 – Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
- November 9 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
- December 12 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700)
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