Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 20 |
Pascal Boyer, composer |
Jan 21 |
John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton) |
Feb 13 |
Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist (d. 1820) |
Feb 19 |
[Ridolfo] Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer, cellist (Minuet) |
Feb 19 |
Luigi Boccherini, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
Feb 23 |
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812) |
Mar 8 |
Bendix Friedrich Zinck, composer |
Apr 13 |
Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, (D-R) 3rd President of the United States (1801-09) (d. 1826) |
Apr 13 |
Thomas Jefferson, Rome: Power & Glory |
Apr 24 |
Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom) |
Apr 30 |
Robert Jasper van de Capellen, master of Marsch/politician |
May 17 |
Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (d. 1784) |
May 24 |
Jean-Paul Marat, France, revolutionist |
May 28 |
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson |
Jun 8 |
Alessandro Cagliostro, Palermo Italy, adventurer |
Jun 20 |
Anna L Barbauld, writer of hymns |
Jun 30 |
Niels Schiorring, composer |
Jul 3 |
Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1813) |
Jul 14 |
Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816) |
Jul 31 |
August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist |
Aug 19 |
Marie Jeanne Becu Comtesse du Barry, last mistress of Louis XV (d. 1793) |
Aug 26 |
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris, father of mod chemistry (Oxygen) |
Sep 17 |
Jean-Marie Caritat, France, mathematician |
Sep 17 |
Marquis de Condorcet, Aisn France, enlightenment philosopher (Condorcet Method), (d. 1794) |
Sep 22 |
Quintin Craufurd, British author (d. 1819) |
Sep 30 |
Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, composer |
Oct 5 |
Giuseppi Gazzaniga, composer |
Nov 11 |
Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828) |
Dec 1 |
Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium) |
Dec 6 |
Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer |
Dec 23 |
Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803) |
Dec 29 |
Alexander van Bylandt, Dutch military officer |
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