Date | Event |
---|---|
Feb 25 |
Simon Stijl, Frisian physician/writer |
Mar 7 |
Jean-Louis Laruette, composer |
Mar 11 |
Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence) |
Apr 4 |
Francisco Morera, composer |
Apr 8 |
William Williams, US merchant (signed Decl of Independence) |
May 1 |
Gustaf Philip Creutz, Atis och Camilla |
May 11 |
Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer |
May 29 |
Orazio Mei, composer |
Jun 13 |
Martha Washington, Kent County, Virginia, 1st US First Lady (1789-97) |
Jul 3 |
Samuel Huntington, (Gov-Ct), Continental Congress pres |
Aug 4 |
Giuseppe Colla, composer |
Sep 2 |
Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Olint und Sophronia) |
Sep 7 |
Damasus Brosmann, composer |
Sep 7 |
Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer |
Sep 9 |
Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer (d. 1787) |
Oct 10 |
Henry Cavendish, England, physicist/chemist (discovered hydrogen) |
Nov 1 |
Theodore-Jean Tarade, composer |
Nov 9 |
Benjamin Banneker, Ellicott Md, black mathematician/surveyor (Wash DC) |
Nov 11 |
Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer |
Nov 15 |
William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (John Gilpin) [OS] |
Nov 26 |
William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet (His Task) [NS] |
Nov 26 |
William Cowper, John Gilpin's Ride |
Nov 27 |
Gaetano Pugnani, composer |
Dec 6 |
S von Laroche, writer |
Dec 7 |
Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter |
Dec 8 |
Frantisek Xaver Dusek, composer |
Dec 12 |
Erasmus Darwin, Newark-on-Trent, U.K., influential English physician, poet, philosopher, and botanist (and grandfather of Charles Darwin) |
Dec 26 |
Anthony Ziesenis, architect/sculptor (Town Hall of Westzaan) |
Dec 28 |
Christian Cannabich, German composer/royal chaplain master |
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