Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1772
Birthdays January 12 - Count Mikhail Speransky, Russian reformer (d. 1839) March 10 - Friedrich von Schlegel, German aesthetician (d. 1829) April 15 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844) May 2 - Novalis, German writer (d. 1801) May 4 - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823) May 22 - Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1833) June 6 - Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Holy Roman Empire Empress consort (d. 1807) September 27 - Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1836) October 21 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet (d. 1834)
Deaths February 18 - Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff March 26 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704) May 1 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (b. 1719) June 15 - Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (b. 1694) August 31 - William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695) October 7 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720) October 8 - Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (b. 1711) November 10 - Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
Events January 1 - The first traveler's cheques, which can be used in 90 European cities, go on sale in London. June 9 - The British ship Gaspee is burned off the coast of Rhode Island. August 5 - The First Partition of Poland begins. August 19 - Gustavus III of Sweden stages a Coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King. September 1 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California. November 2 - American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.
