Date | Event |
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Jan 4 |
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector |
Jan 18 |
Hendrik D F L, prince of Prussia/diplomat |
Feb 15 |
Abraham Clark, Elizabethtown, New Jersey, American politician, signed Declaration of Independence |
Feb 16 |
Friedrich von der Trenck, Die Gruft |
Mar 8 |
Richard Howe, British admiral (d. 1799) |
Mar 14 |
Josef Antonin Stepan, composer |
Apr 8 |
Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence) |
Apr 12 |
Charles Burney, English music historian (d. 1814) |
Apr 20 |
Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian earl/general/cartographer |
Apr 26 |
Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter |
May 20 |
Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770) |
May 25 |
Giuseppi Paolucci, composer |
Jun 3 |
James Hutton, Edinburgh Scotland, geologist |
Jun 25 |
Thomas Pennant, British naturalist |
Jul 20 |
William Jones, composer |
Aug 7 |
James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790) |
Aug 9 |
Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778) |
Aug 26 |
Karl Kohaut, composer |
Sep 7 |
Francois-Andre Danican Philidor, France, composer/chess champion |
Oct 14 |
Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (d. 1813) |
Oct 16 |
Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801) |
Nov 20 |
Oliver Wolcott, (Ct-Gov)/signed Decl of Independence [NS=Dec 1] |
Nov 30 |
Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver |
Dec 1 |
Eggert Olafsson, Icelandic writer |
Dec 1 |
Oliver Wolcott, US judge/signer (Declar of Independence) |
Dec 24 |
Johann Ernst Hartmann, composer |
7 |
François-André Danican-Philidor, Tom Jones |
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