The tombstone of the Cherokee leader Oconastota in Monroe County, Tennessee
In the year 1767, the first annual volume of The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris gives navigators the means to find longitude at sea (Jan 1), Norway’s oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is first published (Jul 3), at a London hospital, Dr. William Watson becomes the first physician to conduct a controlled clinical trial (Oct 12), Oconastota and other leaders of native American tribes gather in New York to begin peace negotiations with the British Empire (Dec 29) - and all these fine people were born:
1767-xxxx Black Hawk* (b Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak) Sauk leader - Saukenuk, Quebec, British America (1838/c.70)
1767-0105 Jean-Baptiste Say* economist/businessman - Lyon, Kingdom of France (1832/65)
1767-0124 Emanuel Thelning* Finnish painter - Västra Götaland, Sweden (1831/64)
1767-0202 Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link* German naturalist/botanist - Hildesheim, Holy Roman Empire (1851/83)
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1767-0222 Abraham Bradley Jr.* lawyer/ cartographer/assistant postmaster general - Litschfield, Connecticut, British America (1838/71)
1767-0315 Andrew Jackson* politician/7usp – Waxhaws area, British America (1845/78)
1767-0325 Joachim Murat* French Army officer/statesman - Labastide-Fortunière, Kingdom of France (1815/48)
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1767-0407 Henry Bell* engineer/ introduced the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe - Torphichen, England (1830/62)
1767-0413 Artemy Vedel* Ukrainian composer - Kyiv, Little Russia Governorate, Russian Empire (1808/41)
1767-0421 Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg* Archduchess of Austria - Treptow an der Rega, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia (1790/22)
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1767-0619 Joseph François Michaud* historian/publicist - Albens, France (1839/72)
1767-0622 Wilhelm von Humboldt* philosopher/ linguist/diplomat – Potsdam, Prussia (1835/67)
1767-0711 John Quincy Adams* politician/6usp – Braintree, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America (1848/80)
1767-0824 Bernhard Meyer* German physician/botanist/ ornithologist - Hanau (1836/68)
1767-0825 Louis Antoine de Saint-Just* Jacobin leader during the French Revolution - Decize, France (1794/26)
1767-0922 José Maurício Nunes Garcia* composer - Rio de Janeiro, Colonial Brazil (1830/62)
1767-1007 Edward Austen Knight* High Sheriff of Kent/brother of Jane Austen - Deane, Hampshire, England (1852/85)
1767-1025 Benjamin Constant* political activist/writer on political theory and religion - Lausanne, Swiss Confederacy (1830/63)
1767-1122 Andreas Hofer* innkeeper/drover/ Austrian national hero - St. Leonhard, Passeier, Habsburg crown land of Tyrol (1810/42)
1767-1208 [Antoine Fabre d’Olivet](http://Antoine Fabre d’Olivet)* author/poet/composer - Ganges, Hérault, France (1825/57)
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