Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 2 |
Franz Xaver Brixi, composer |
Jan 6 |
Matija A Reljkovic, Croatia, writer (Satir iliti divji covic) |
Jan 17 |
Stanislaw II August Poniatowski, last king of Poland (1764-95) |
Jan 18 |
Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer |
Jan 20 |
Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence) |
Jan 24 |
Pierre de Baumarchais, France, playwright (Barber of Seville) |
Jan 24 |
Beaumarchais, Der Barbier von Sevilla |
Feb 5 |
Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer |
Feb 6 |
Charles Lee, General in the American Revolution (d. 1782) |
Feb 22 |
George Washington, Westmoreland, Virginia, 1st American president (1789-97) |
Feb 22 |
George Washington, |
Feb 25 |
Robert Hudson, composer |
Mar 1 |
William Cushing, 2nd Chief Justice of the United States. (d. 1810) |
Mar 23 |
Marie Adélaïde of France, daughter of Louis XV (d. 1800) |
Mar 24 |
Gian Francesco de Majo, composer |
Mar 31 |
Franz Joseph Haydn, Vienna Austria, prominent composer of the classical period (The Creation/Die Schopfung) |
Apr 1 |
Joseph Haydn, Catch Me If You Can |
Apr 5 |
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806) |
Apr 8 |
David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, and mathematician (d. 1796) |
Apr 13 |
Frederick North, (C) British PM (1770-82) |
Apr 18 |
George Colman, "the Elder |
May 17 |
Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer |
Jun 21 |
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer and 9th son of Johann Sebastian Bach |
Aug 8 |
Johann C Adelung, German linguist/librarian |
Sep 1 |
Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer |
Sep 1 |
Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer |
Sep 6 |
Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796) |
Sep 30 |
Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804) |
Nov 9 |
Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776) |
Nov 13 |
John Dickinson, Talbot County Maryland, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808) |
Nov 27 |
Johann Joseph Emmert, composer |
Dec 6 |
Warren Hastings, England, 1st governor-General of India (1773-84) |
Dec 13 |
Jean-Claude Trial, composer |
Dec 23 |
Richard Arkwright, inventor (spinning frame) |
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