Date | Event |
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Jan 24 |
Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789) |
Jan 30 |
Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer |
Feb 28 |
George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807) |
Feb 29 |
Eva Marie Veigel, ballet dancer and wife of actor David Garrick (d.1822) |
Apr 12 |
Lyman Hall, US physician (signed Declaration of Independence) |
Apr 22 |
Immanuel Kant, Konigsberg Germ, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason) |
Apr 22 |
Immanuel Kant, Kant: Über die Kritik der Urteilskraft |
Apr 27 |
Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer |
Apr 27 |
Col. Thomas Gardner, a heroic political figure and soldier (d. 1775) |
May 7 |
Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general (d. 1797) |
May 10 |
Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt-admiral (battle of Doggersbank) |
May 19 |
Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779) |
May 22 |
Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772) |
Jun 8 |
John Smeaton, Leeds, civil engineer |
Jul 2 |
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet |
Jul 2 |
Friedrich G. Klopstock, Satana |
Jul 31 |
Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801) |
Aug 23 |
Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796) |
Aug 25 |
George Stubbs, England, animal painter (Horse Frightened by Lion) |
Aug 27 |
John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781) |
Sep 1 |
John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist/co-founder (Society of It General) |
Sep 3 |
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808) |
Oct 1 |
Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer |
Oct 31 |
Christopher Anstey, English writer (d. 1805) |
Nov 11 |
Willem A Alting, governor-general of Neth-Indies (1780-97) |
Nov 21 |
John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist |
Nov 24 |
Maria Amalia of Saxony, queen of Spain (d. 1760) |
Dec 1 |
Charles Theodoor, elector (Palts & Bayern) |
Dec 1 |
Dismas Hatas, composer |
Dec 5 |
Joseph Friebert, composer |
Dec 12 |
Samuel Hood, Butleigh, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral, (d. 1816) |
Dec 13 |
Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist |
Dec 24 |
Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (d. 1811) |
Dec 31 |
Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer |
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