Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 2 |
Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium |
Jan 6 |
Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer |
Jan 6 |
Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright/poet |
Jan 9 |
Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy) |
Jan 16 |
Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer (Buona Figliuola) |
Jan 17 |
Johann Gottfried Muthel, composer |
Feb 12 |
Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (d. 1799) |
Feb 13 |
John Hunter, Scottish surgeon (d. 1793) |
Feb 21 |
Peter III, Kiel Germany, Russian Tsar (1762) and husband of Catherine the Great |
Feb 29 |
Robert Bage, English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner) |
Mar 19 |
Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter |
Mar 20 |
Franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist |
Mar 22 |
Anton Raphael Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter |
Mar 22 |
Giacomo Insanguine, composer |
Apr 2 |
Franz Asplmayr, composer |
Apr 16 |
Joseph Zwart, Scottish chemist/physicist |
Apr 19 |
Francisco Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright |
Apr 23 |
Samuel Wallis, explorer (Wallis Island) |
Jun 15 |
Pietro Alessandro Pavona, composer |
Jul 3 |
Robert Adam, architect/designer (Adelphi Terrace, London) |
Jul 16 |
Henri Moreau, composer |
Aug 26 |
Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (d. 1777) |
Aug 29 |
Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797) |
Sep 21 |
Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer |
Oct 3 |
Charles G Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy/transvestite |
Oct 7 |
Caesar Rodney, Delaware, judge/signer (Declaration of Independence) |
Oct 27 |
James Cook, Yorkshire, England, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands |
Dec 2 |
Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist/philosopher/diplomat |
Dec 8 |
Johann G von Zimmermann, Swiss author |
Dec 9 |
Pietro Alessandro Guglieli, composer |
Dec 21 |
Hermann Friedrich Raupach, composer |
Dec 22 |
Charles Frederick, Baden, liberal ruler of Baden |
Dec 25 |
Johann Adam Hiller, composer |
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