Births
- 1 May 1772 - Sir Gilbraith Lowry Cole, Governor of the Cape Colony, is born
- 14 April 1775 - John Philip, a London Missionary Society's missionary to South Africa, is born at Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
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