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Events from the year 1764 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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[edit] Births
- 13 March - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1845)
- 3 April - John Abernethy, surgeon (died 1831)
- 5 May - Robert Craufurd, general (died 1812)
- 25 May - John Mason Good, writer (died 1827)
- 19 June - Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, author and statesman (died 1848)
- 21 June - Sidney Smith, admiral (died 1840)
- 5 July - Daniel Mendoza, boxer (died 1836)
- 9 July - Ann Radcliffe, author (died 1823)
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- 6 March - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1690)
- 17 March - George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer (born c. 1696)
- 29 June - Ralph Allen, businessman and politician (born 1693)
- 7 July - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, politician (born 1683)
- 2 September - Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (born 1700)
- 23 September - Robert Dodsley, writer (born 1703)
- 2 October - William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister (born 1720)
- 26 October - William Hogarth, painter and satirist (born 1697)
- 4 November - Charles Churchill, poet and satirist (born 1731)
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