Notable Birthdays - 1740
1740 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Feb 3 |
Guillaume Lasceux, composer |
Feb 4 |
Carl Michael Bellman, Kiss Me in the Rain |
Feb 7 |
Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/MP |
Feb 12 |
Matej Sojka, composer |
Feb 15 |
Ernst Eichner, composer |
Feb 16 |
Giambattista Bodoni, Saluzzo Italy, printer/typeface designer (Bodoni) |
Feb 17 |
Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist |
Mar 6 |
Giovanni Meli, Siclian poet (Buccolica) |
Mar 19 |
Johann Georg Roser, composer |
Mar 19 |
Joseph F Weigl, German/Austrian(?), violin cellist |
Mar 24 |
John Antes, composer |
Apr 2 |
Armand-Gaston Camus, French CEO (Council of 500) |
Apr 4 |
Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer |
Apr 18 |
Francis Baring, banker/merchant |
May 2 |
Elias Boudinot, lawyer/patriot, found American Biblical Society |
May 7 |
Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814) |
May 9 |
Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville) |
May 9 |
Giovanni Paisiello, Barry Lyndon |
Jun 2 |
Marquis de Sade, Paris, French philosopher and writer (Justine). The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name. |
Jun 2 |
Marquis de Sade, Lunacy |
Jun 8 |
Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer |
Jun 11 |
Luigi Gatti, composer |
Jun 18 |
Karel van Poucke, Flemish sculptor |
Jun 21 |
Hendrik van Wijn, Dutch archivist (Algemeen Rijksarchief) |
Jul 27 |
Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803) |
Aug 10 |
Samuel Arnold, composer |
Aug 14 |
Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], bishop of Imola/Pope (1800-23) |
Aug 15 |
Matthias Claudius, German poet (d. 1815) |
Aug 23 |
Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia 1740-41) |
Aug 26 |
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (ballooning) |
Sep 7 |
Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor (d. 1814) |
Sep 12 |
Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817) |
Sep 23 |
Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813) |
Oct 8 |
Michel-Julien Mathieu, composer |
Oct 14 |
Joannes Siberg, Dutch governor-general of Neth Indies (1801-05) |
Oct 20 |
Belle van Zuylen, Neth/Swiss writer (Three Women) |
Oct 26 |
Ernest Louis Muller, composer |
Oct 29 |
James Boswell, Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer |
Oct 31 |
William Paca, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence) |
Nov 4 |
Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn "Rock of Ages" (d. 1778) |
Nov 4 |
Augustus Montague Toplady, The Silence of the Lambs |
Nov 14 |
Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven's father and first teacher (d. 1792) |
Nov 24 |
John Bacon, English sculptor |
Dec 13 |
Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer |
Dec 30 |
Princess Elizabeth Caroline of Wales (d. 1759) |
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