Jan 6 Matija A Reljkovic, Habsburg military officer & Croatian writer (Satir iliti divji covic), born in Davor, Croatia (d. 1798) Jan 17 Stanislaw II August Poniatowski, last King of Poland (1764-95), born in Wołczyn, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1795) Jan 20 Richard Henry Lee, American farmer (signed US Declaration of Independence), born in Westmoreland county, Virginia (d. 1794) Jan 24 Pierre de Beaumarchais, French polymath and dramatist (The Marriage of Figaro, Barber of Seville), born in Paris, France (d. 1799) 1731 Birthdays in History by Year 1733