Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 1 |
Paul Revere, silversmith/US patriot (British are coming) |
Jan 8 |
John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815) |
Jan 21 |
Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer |
Feb 9 |
Adriaan Kluit, Dutch historian |
Feb 10 |
Johann Christoph Kuhnau, composer |
Feb 25 |
Ernst William Wolf, composer |
Mar 9 |
August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, composer |
Mar 20 |
Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (d. 1784) |
Apr 2 |
Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer |
Apr 2 |
Franz Volrath Buttstett, composer |
Apr 11 |
Pierre Nicolas La Houssaye, composer |
Apr 13 |
Isaac Low, delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1791) |
Apr 23 |
Ildephons Haas, composer |
May 1 |
John H van Kinsbergen, Dutch lt-admiral/founder of Dutch Marines Corp |
May 8 |
Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (d. 1811) |
May 13 |
Horace Coignet, composer |
May 23 |
Charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian fieldmarshal/author |
Jun 6 |
Anton Schweitzer, composer |
Jun 10 |
John Morgan, American physician-in-chief of Continental Army |
Jun 25 |
Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer |
Jul 1 |
James Lyon, composer |
Jul 19 |
Garret Wesley Mornington, composer |
Jul 23 |
Johannes Herbst, composer |
Sep 5 |
Johann Christian Bach (English Bach), composer, 11th son of Johann Sebastian Bach |
Sep 7 |
Thomas Coutts, Scottish banker |
Sep 28 |
August Henry Fitzroy, 3rd duke of Grafton/English premier |
Oct 1 |
Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi, composer |
Oct 25 |
James Beattie, Scotland, poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth) |
Oct 30 |
Edward Miller, composer |
Oct 30 |
John Adams, Braintree (Quincy) Massachusetts, 2nd US President (1797-1801) |
Oct 30 |
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson: Philosopher of Freedom |
Nov 10 |
Granville Sharp, English abolishionist (d. 1813) |
Dec 15 |
Cesare Beccaria-Bonesana, Italian lawyer |
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