Date | Event |
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Jan 2 |
Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803) |
Feb 13 |
Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, composer |
Mar 10 |
Christian Friedrich Schale, composer |
Mar 10 |
Raphael Weiss, composer |
Mar 15 |
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere |
Mar 21 |
Francis Lewis, signer (Decl of Ind) |
Mar 25 |
Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer |
Mar 29 |
John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789) |
Apr 2 |
Onno Zwier van Haren, Frisian poet (Fatherland) |
Apr 10 |
John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (d. 1788) |
Apr 12 |
Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796) |
Apr 13 |
Pierre de Jelyotte, composer |
Apr 21 |
Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France |
May 3 |
Alexis Clairault, French mathematician (d. 1765) |
May 6 |
Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780) |
May 25 |
John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, English premier (1760-63) |
May 30 |
Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1757) |
Jun 11 |
Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781) |
Jun 16 |
Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786) |
Jun 22 |
Lord John Philip Sackville, English cricketer (d. 1765) |
Jul 22 |
Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780) |
Aug 1 |
Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780) |
Aug 28 |
Louis A A Count d'Affry, French general/ambassador to Netherland |
Sep 14 |
Johann Kies, German mathematician (d. 1781) |
Sep 18 |
Jean Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher |
Oct 3 |
Antoine Dauvergne, composer |
Oct 5 |
Denis Diderot, Langres, France, enlightenment philosopher (Encyclopédie), (d. 1784) |
Oct 5 |
Denis Diderot, Les dames du Bois de Boulogne |
Oct 7 |
Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759) |
Oct 8 |
Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1793) |
Oct 10 |
Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer |
Oct 13 |
Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (d. 1784) |
Oct 23 |
Peter Burmannus Secundus, [Pieter Burman], Dutch classicist |
Nov 24 |
Junipero Serra, priest had a mission in California |
Nov 24 |
Laurence Sterne, Ireland, novelist/satirist (Tristram Shandy) |
Nov 24 |
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story |
Dec 4 |
Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (d. 1786) |
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