Date | Event |
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Feb 4 |
Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804) |
Feb 5 |
James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783) |
Feb 25 |
Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (Geistliche Kantaten) |
Mar 11 |
Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807) |
Mar 17 |
Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (d. 1806) |
Mar 20 |
Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789) |
Mar 24 |
Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813) |
Mar 24 |
Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788) |
Mar 28 |
Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (d. 1795) |
Mar 29 |
Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, composer |
Apr 1 |
Francois Bainville, composer |
Apr 2 |
Giacomo Casanova, Venice, Italian writer, adventurer and famous lover |
Apr 2 |
Giacomo Casanova, Fellini's Casanova |
Apr 20 |
Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer |
Apr 23 |
Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (d. 1755) |
Apr 25 |
Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (d. 1786) |
May 12 |
Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1785) |
May 14 |
Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (d. 1802) |
May 25 |
Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776) |
Jun 17 |
Joseph Anton Bauer, composer |
Jul 1 |
Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807) |
Jul 16 |
Georg Simon Lohlein, composer |
Jul 24 |
John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807) |
Jul 24 |
John Newton, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
Aug 15 |
Ferdinando Bertoni, composer |
Aug 21 |
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter |
Aug 24 |
Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer |
Aug 29 |
Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767) |
Sep 5 |
Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799) |
Sep 12 |
Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792) |
Sep 16 |
Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815) |
Sep 24 |
Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803) |
Sep 25 |
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile |
Sep 25 |
Robert Clive, English explorer/founder (British empire in India) |
Oct 12 |
Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810) |
Oct 16 |
József Gvadányi, A peleskei nótárius |
Oct 17 |
John Wilkes, English journalist/MP (N Briton) |
Oct 21 |
Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (d. 1801) |
Dec 11 |
George Mason, Fairfax County Virginia, American statesman (Bill of Rights) |
Dec 18 |
Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (d. 1791) |
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