Date | Event |
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Jan 22 |
Peter Fuchs, composer |
Feb 5 |
Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Frisian regent/patriot |
Feb 6 |
Evariste Desire Desforges chevalier de Parny, French poet |
Feb 7 |
Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle/Thirsa) |
Feb 12 |
Lambert-Francois Godecharle, composer |
Feb 12 |
François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (d. 1798) |
Feb 20 |
Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815) |
Mar 8 |
William Roscoe, |
Mar 9 |
Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800) |
Mar 26 |
Benjamin Thompson, physicist (Royal Inst of Great Britain, Woburn MA) |
Apr 1 |
Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer (d. 1821) |
Apr 28 |
Franz K Achard, German physicist |
May 8 |
Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, father of Mexican independence |
May 8 |
Phillis Wheatley, American poet who was both the second published African-American poet and first published African-American woman. |
May 13 |
Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823) |
May 23 |
Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer |
May 24 |
Oliver Cromwell, Burlington NJ, decorated black soldier who served with Washington in US War of Independence |
May 31 |
Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader |
Jun 8 |
Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer |
Jun 10 |
William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825) |
Jul 4 |
Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US |
Jul 6 |
John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, baptized |
Jul 9 |
William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825) |
Aug 1 |
Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist |
Aug 12 |
Thomas Bewick, England, artist (British Birds, Aesop's Fables) |
Aug 17 |
Josef Dobrovský, Czech linguist (d. 1828) |
Aug 22 |
Christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer |
Sep 2 |
Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, queen of France (d. 1810) |
Sep 10 |
John Soane, English architect (Bank of England, Soane Museum) |
Sep 11 |
Friedrich August Baumbach, composer |
Sep 29 |
Johann Gottfried Schict, composer |
Oct 14 |
Franz Anton Dimmler, composer |
Nov 3 |
August G Meissner, German author |
Nov 3 |
Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz, composer |
Nov 6 |
Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, composer |
Nov 6 |
Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802) |
Nov 19 |
Stanislas Champein, composer |
Nov 25 |
Otto Carl Erdmann Kospoth, composer |
Nov 30 |
Johann Baptist Schenk, composer |
Dec 3 |
Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny spinning machine) |
Dec 19 |
John Taylor, Virginia, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy) |
Dec 22 |
Dugald Stewart, Edinburgh Scot, philosopher (Scottish common sense) |
Dec 28 |
Johan Wikmanson, composer |
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