In the year 1765, the term Sons of Liberty is coined by Isaac Barré (Feb 8), James Watt receives the inspiration during a stroll that provides the breakthrough in his development of the steam engine  (May 26), Russian Empress Catherine II issues a decree authorizing the new way to produce vodka (Aug 9), the much criticized Stamp Act (a way to help finance British military operations in colonial America) goes into effect in the thirteen American colonies (Nov 1), the first true restaurant opens in Paris - and all these fine people were born:

1765-01xx Peter Crompton* physician/ political radical/brewer - Derby, England (1833/68)

1765-0102 Charles Hatchett* chemist/mineralogist - Chelsea, London, England (1847/82)
1765-0111 Antoine Alexandre Barbier* librarian/bibliographer - Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne, France (1825/60)

1765-0222 Meta Forkel-Liebeskind* (b Sophie Margarethe Dorothea Wedekind) German writer/translator - Göttingen (1853/88)

1765-0307 Nicéphore Niépce* inventor/pioneer in photography - Chalon-sur-Saône, France (1833/68) 

1765-0411 Gertrudis Bocanegra* Mexican national hero - Pátzcuaro, Colonial Mexico (1817/52)

1765-0615 Henry Thomas Colebrooke* orientalist/mathematician - London, England (1837/71)
1765-0625 Samuel Marsden* priest/prominent figure in Australian history/to Australia at age 28 - Farsley, Yorkshire, England (1838/72)
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1765-0821 William IV of the United Kingdom* “Sailor King” whose reign saw several major reforms take place – Buckingham House, England (1837/71)

1765-0916 Harry Burrard-Neale* Navy officer/Member of Parliament – England (1840/77)

1765-1008 Harrison Gray Otis* lawyer/businessman/politician - Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America (1848/83)
1765-1024 James Mackintosh* jurist/politician/publicist - Aldourie, Inverness-shire, Scotland (1832/66)
1765-1027 Nancy Storace* opera singer – London, England (1817/51)

1765-11xx William Hill Brown* novelist/author of what is considered the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy – Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America (1793/27)
1765-1114 Robert Fulton* engineer/ inventor – Little Britain, Province of Pennsylvania, British America (1815/49)

1765-1208 Eli Whitney* inventor of the cotton gin and arms – Westborough, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America (1825/59)

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