Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 1 |
Betsy Ross [Elizabeth Griscom], seamstress widely credited with making the first American flag |
Jan 2 |
Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village) |
Jan 19 |
James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820) |
Jan 23 |
Muzio Clementi, Italian composer |
Jan 28 |
Giuseppe Antonio Carpani, Nina, o sia La pazza per amore |
Jan 30 |
Joseph Matthias Kracher, composer |
Jan 31 |
Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (d. 1816) |
Feb 12 |
Josef Reicha, Czech composer |
Feb 17 |
Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright (Wirrwarr) |
Feb 20 |
Charles Broche, composer |
Feb 25 |
John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806) |
Mar 19 |
Jose Mauricio, composer |
Mar 22 |
Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer |
Mar 29 |
Edward Jones, composer |
Apr 4 |
Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, composer (Andromeda) |
Apr 5 |
Sébastien Érard, French musical instruments maker (d. 1831) |
Apr 6 |
Johann Friedrich Kranz, composer |
May 2 |
Ludwig August Lebrun, composer |
May 3 |
Braz Francisco de Lima, composer |
May 4 |
John Brooks, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825) |
May 11 |
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840) |
May 14 |
Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828) |
May 14 |
Timothy Dwight, American theologian (d. 1817) |
Jun 13 |
Fanny Burney, England, author (Camille, Evelina) |
Jun 16 |
Meingosus Gaelle, composer |
Jul 7 |
Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented programmable loom |
Jul 27 |
Samuel Smith, American politician |
Aug 13 |
Marie Caroline of Austria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1814) |
Aug 27 |
Herman Muntinghe, Dutch theologist (History of Mankind) |
Sep 9 |
Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer |
Sep 18 |
Adrien-Marie Lagendre, mathematician, worked on elliptic integrals |
Sep 18 |
Johann Anton Sulzer, composer |
Sep 21 |
Louise MC, countess of Albany |
Sep 25 |
Carl Stenborg, composer |
Sep 30 |
Justin Heinrich Knecht, composer |
Oct 2 |
Samuel Story, Dutch admiral (Battle at Kamperduin) |
Oct 17 |
Nicolas Appert, Châlons-sur-Marne, France, inventor (food canning, bouillon tablet) |
Oct 22 |
Ambrogio Minoja, composer |
Nov 19 |
George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War |
Nov 20 |
Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Christabel) |
Nov 25 |
Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer |
Nov 29 |
Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (d. 1819) |
Dec 3 |
Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer |
Dec 6 |
Gabriel Duvall, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1844) |
Dec 27 |
Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus, composer |
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