Date | Event |
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Jan 1 |
Johann H H Butz, German/Dutch organ builder |
Jan 22 |
Joseph Reipel, composer |
Feb 16 |
Charles Avison, composer |
Feb 24 |
Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (d. 1782) |
Mar 1 |
Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer |
Mar 10 |
Georg Steller, German naturalist (d. 1746) |
Jun 25 |
Francesco Araja, composer |
Jul 11 |
Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist (d. 1785) |
Jul 20 |
James Harris, philosopher |
Sep 18 |
Samuel Johnson, Lichfield Staffordshire, England, lexicographer/writer (Boswell's Tour Guide) |
Oct 25 |
Georg Gebel, composer |
Oct 25 |
John Wagenaar, Amsterdam merchant/historian, baptised |
Nov 2 |
Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759) |
Nov 19 |
Pierre Leclair, composer |
Nov 22 |
Frantisek Benda, composer |
Dec 1 |
Franz Xaver Richter, composer |
Dec 11 |
Louise Elisabeth of Orléans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1742) |
Dec 23 |
Jean-Noel Hamal, composer |
Dec 27 |
Pieter de Swart, Dutch architect (Royal Palace, Hague) |
Dec 29 |
Elizabeth of Russia [Elizaveta Petrovna], Kolomenskoye, Moscow, tsarina of Russia (1741-62) and daughter of Peter the Great |
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