Date | Event |
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Jan 15 |
Richard Martin, Irish animal rights activist (d. 1834) |
Jan 24 |
Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820) |
Jan 29 |
Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland (d. 1806) |
Jan 30 |
John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829) |
Feb 13 |
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician (d. 1838) |
Feb 17 |
Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer |
Feb 17 |
Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803) |
Feb 19 |
Vincenzo Monti, Italian poet/translator (Al Signor di Montgolfier) |
Mar 4 |
Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer) |
Mar 4 |
Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer |
Mar 15 |
Silvestro Palma, composer |
Mar 23 |
Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer (d. 1802) |
Apr 9 |
Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer |
Apr 9 |
Pieter Paulus, Dutch lawyer/CEO (National Convention) |
May 2 |
Vicente Martin y Soler, composer |
May 10 |
Asmus Jakob Carstens, painter |
May 12 |
Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer |
May 15 |
Pierre Dutillieu, composer |
May 20 |
Hans Gram, composer |
May 23 |
Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter (Napoleon) |
May 24 |
Giacomo Conti, composer |
Jun 4 |
Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (d. 1832) |
Jun 16 |
Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir national hero, poet (d. 1800) |
Jul 11 |
Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare |
Jul 20 |
Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (d. 1836) |
Aug 2 |
Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Anet France, architect laid out Wash DC, (d. 1825) |
Aug 18 |
François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833) |
Aug 21 |
William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839) |
Aug 21 |
Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (d. 1833) |
Aug 23 |
Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France (1774-93) eventually guillotined |
Aug 28 |
Peter Winter, composer |
Sep 9 |
William Bligh, nasty ship's captain (HMS Bounty) |
Sep 19 |
John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821) |
Oct 16 |
Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (d. 1844) |
Nov 26 |
Georg Forster, writer |
Dec 2 |
William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809) |
Dec 7 |
Jack Jouett, American patriot |
Dec 9 |
Etienne Ozi, composer |
Dec 24 |
George Crabbe, Aldeburgh England, poet (Everlasting Mercy) |
9 |
William Bligh, Captain Bligh: Mutiny on the Bounty |
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