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Born in 1701

37 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Anders Celsius*

    physicist, chemist

    Date disputed

    December 8 · 1701

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  2. Carlo Emanuele III of Sardinia

    politician, aristocrat

    1701–1773 · aged 71

    April 27 · 1701

    Source: The Peerage

  3. Maria Amalia of Austria

    consort

    1701–1756 · aged 55

    October 22 · 1701

    Source: The Peerage

  4. Anna Magdalena Bach

    singer, composer

    1701–1760 · aged 58

    September 22 · 1701

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  5. Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond

    politician, military officer

    1701–1750 · aged 49

    May 18 · 1701

    Source: GeneaStar

  6. Charles Marie de La Condamine*

    naturalist, geographer

    Date disputed

    January 28 · 1701

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  7. Marguerite d'Youville

    nun, founder

    1701–1771 · aged 70

    October 15 · 1701

    Source: Collective Biographies of Women

  8. Pietro Longhi*

    draftsperson, visual artist

    Date disputed

    November 5 · 1701

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  9. Thomas Hudson

    portraitist, visual artist

    1701–1779

    1701

    Source: Frick Art Research Library Photoarchive

  10. Louis Charles, Count of Eu

    sovereign

    1701–1775 · aged 73

    October 15 · 1701

    Source: Genealogics

  11. Giovanni Battista Nolli

    engineer, cartographer

    1701–1756

    April 9 · 1701

    Source: Nolli, Giovanni Battista

  12. Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo

    politician

    1701–1778 · aged 77

    May 19 · 1701

    No external source identified

  13. Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas

    politician

    1701–1781 · aged 80

    July 9 · 1701

    Source: BnF authorities

  14. Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim

    Catholic deacon, historian

    1701–1790 · aged 89

    January 27 · 1701

    Source: SNAC

  15. Wilhelm of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

    aristocrat, marshal

    1701–1771 · aged 70

    March 12 · 1701

    Source: The Peerage

  16. Wu Jingzi

    poet, writer

    1701–1754

    1701

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  17. Ignatius of Laconi

    lay brother, friar

    1701–1781 · aged 79

    December 17 · 1701

    Source: Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon

  18. Nicolai Eigtved

    farmer, master builder

    1701–1754 · aged 52

    June 17 · 1701

    Source: Kunstindeks Danmark

  19. Dmitry Laptev

    military personnel, explorer

    1701–1771

    1701

    No external source identified

  20. William Emerson

    mathematician

    1701–1782 · aged 81

    May 14 · 1701

    Source: SNAC

  21. Madeleine Françoise Basseporte

    copper engraver, painter

    1701–1780 · aged 79

    April 28 · 1701

    Source: BnF authorities

  22. Johan Agrell

    pianist, composer

    1701–1765 · aged 63

    February 1 · 1701

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  23. Emetullah Sultan

    aristocrat

    1701–1727

    1701

    No external source identified

  24. Johann Jakob Moser

    jurist, lawyer

    1701–1785 · aged 84

    January 18 · 1701

    Source: Catalogue of the Library of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross

  25. Vittoria Tesi

    opera singer

    1701–1775 · aged 74

    February 13 · 1701

    Source: musiklexikon.ac.at

  26. Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville

    politician

    1701–1794 · aged 92

    December 13 · 1701

    Source: La France savante

  27. Charles Le Beau

    professor, writer

    1701–1778 · aged 76

    October 18 · 1701

    Source: La France savante

  28. Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais

    jurist

    1701–1785 · aged 84

    March 6 · 1701

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  29. François Rebel

    conductor, composer

    1701–1775 · aged 74

    June 19 · 1701

    Source: Musicalics

  30. Johann Jakob Breitinger

    classical philologist, translator

    1701–1776 · aged 75

    March 1 · 1701

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  31. Paul Jacques Malouin

    encyclopédistes, professor

    1701–1778 · aged 76

    June 27 · 1701

    Source: SNAC

  32. Enrico Enríquez

    nuncio, Catholic bishop

    1701–1756 · aged 54

    September 30 · 1701

    Source: BnF authorities

  33. Karl Friedrich Behrens

    writer, explorer

    1701–1750

    1701

    Source: MAK

  34. Frédéric Jérôme de La Rochefoucauld

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1701–1757 · aged 55

    July 16 · 1701

    Source: BnF authorities

  35. Guillaume Taraval

    painter, draftsperson

    1701–1750

    December 21 · 1701

    Source: RKDartists

  36. Johann Baptist Martinelli

    architect

    1701–1754 · aged 53

    February 8 · 1701

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  37. Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

    military personnel

    1701–1766 · aged 65

    April 1 · 1701

    Source: The Peerage

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