Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 19 |
James Watt, Scotland, inventor (steam engine) |
Jan 19 |
Laurens P van de Spiegel, Dutch regent/secretary of State 1787-95 |
Jan 25 |
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Turin, Italy, mathematician and astronomer |
Feb 3 |
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austria organist/composer |
Feb 29 |
Ann Lee, Manchester England, American founder of Shakers (d. 1784) |
Mar 23 |
Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83) |
May 24 |
Juan de Sesse y Balaguer, composer |
May 29 |
Patrick Henry, US, patriot "Give me liberty or give me death" |
Jun 5 |
Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp |
Jun 7 |
Karl Frieberth, composer |
Jun 13 |
Henryk Klein, composer |
Jun 14 |
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law) |
Jul 10 |
Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807) |
Aug 15 |
Johann Christoph Kellner, composer |
Aug 26 |
Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790) |
Sep 4 |
Robert Raikes, England, Sunday school pioneer |
Sep 8 |
Bernardo Ottani, composer |
Sep 10 |
Carter Braxton, US farmer/signer (Declaration of Independence) |
Sep 15 |
Jean-Sylvain, French historian (History of France) |
Sep 16 |
Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician |
Nov 3 |
Christian Brunings, Dutch hydraulic engineer |
Nov 11 |
Johann H Schepp, German/Neth engraver |
Nov 18 |
Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer |
Nov 26 |
Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Mercure de France) |
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