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Born in 1706

44 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Benjamin Franklin

    physicist, politician

    1706–1790 · aged 84

    January 17 · 1706

    Source: Roglo

  2. Émilie du Châtelet

    translator, philosopher of language

    1706–1749 · aged 42

    December 17 · 1706

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  3. Marthanda Varma

    1706–1758

    1706

    No external source identified

  4. Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough

    politician, aristocrat

    1706–1758 · aged 51

    November 22 · 1706

    Source: Genealogics

  5. Baldassare Galuppi

    composer, organist

    Date disputed

    October 18 · 1706

    Source: Archivio Storico Ricordi

  6. John Baskerville

    editor, type designer

    1706–1775 · aged 68

    January 28 · 1706

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  7. Frederick Charles, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön

    aristocrat

    1706–1761 · aged 55

    August 4 · 1706

    Source: The Peerage

  8. Giovanni Battista Martini

    composer, pianist

    1706–1784 · aged 78

    April 24 · 1706

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  9. Princess Charlotte Amalie of Denmark

    1706–1782 · aged 76

    October 6 · 1706

    Source: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon

  10. Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine

    writer, salonnière

    1706–1799 · aged 93

    October 28 · 1706

    Source: BnF authorities

  11. Polyxena of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg

    aristocrat

    1706–1735 · aged 28

    September 21 · 1706

    Source: The Peerage

  12. Mentewab

    empress consort

    1706–1773

    1706

    No external source identified

  13. John Dollond

    physicist, medical instrument maker

    1706–1761

    June 21 · 1706

    Source: SNAC

  14. Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden

    sovereign

    1706–1771 · aged 65

    January 14 · 1706

    Source: BnF authorities

  15. James Abercrombie

    politician, military officer

    1706–1781

    1706

    Source: Electronic Enlightenment

  16. Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne

    colonel

    1706–1771 · aged 65

    July 16 · 1706

    Source: Genealogics

  17. Johann Joachim Kändler

    ceramicist, sculptor

    1706–1775

    June 15 · 1706

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  18. Johann Caspar Füssli

    writer, art historian

    1706–1782 · aged 76

    January 3 · 1706

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  19. Magda Logomer

    herbalist

    Born 1706

    May 18 · 1706

    Source: libela.org

  20. Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis

    politician

    1706–1756 · aged 49

    August 11 · 1706

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  21. Barbara Regina Dietzsch

    draftsperson, painter

    1706–1783 · aged 76

    September 22 · 1706

    Source: RKDartists

  22. Johann Heinrich Zedler

    bookseller, publisher

    1706–1751 · aged 45

    January 7 · 1706

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  23. Maria Anna of Schwarzenberg

    aristocrat

    1706–1755 · aged 48

    December 25 · 1706

    No external source identified

  24. Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau-Craon

    writer, royal mistress

    Date disputed

    1706

    Source: Dictionary of Women Worldwide

  25. Lauritz de Thurah

    architect, general contractor

    1706–1759 · aged 53

    March 4 · 1706

    Source: BnF authorities

  26. Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten

    university teacher, historian

    1706–1757 · aged 51

    March 14 · 1706

    Source: BnF authorities

  27. Antoine de Favray

    draftsperson, painter

    1706–1798

    September 8 · 1706

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  28. François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix

    professor, botanist

    1706–1767 · aged 60

    May 12 · 1706

    Source: Base biographique

  29. Anna Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt

    aristocrat

    Date disputed

    December 22 · 1706

    Source: The Peerage

  30. Wacław Rzewuski

    military officer, diplomat

    1706–1779 · aged 72

    October 29 · 1706

    Source: BnF authorities

  31. Giambettino Cignaroli

    graphic artist, painter

    1706–1770 · aged 64

    July 4 · 1706

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  32. Nils Rosén von Rosenstein

    physician, pediatrician

    Date disputed

    February 12 · 1706

    Source: Q110246664

  33. John Belchier

    surgeon, physician

    1706–1785

    1706

    Source: Base biographique

  34. Jan Bouman

    master builder, architect

    1706–1776 · aged 70

    August 28 · 1706

    Source: European Theatre Architecture DB

  35. Jean-Baptiste Descamps

    painter, writer

    Date disputed

    August 28 · 1706

    Source: RKDartists

  36. Pierre Nicolas d'Incarville

    botanist

    1706–1757 · aged 50

    August 21 · 1706

    Source: academie-sciences.fr

  37. Carlo Cecere

    composer

    1706–1761 · aged 54

    November 7 · 1706

    Source: SNAC

  38. Maria Crocifissa Satellico

    religious

    1706–1745 · aged 38

    December 31 · 1706

    Source: GCatholic.org

  39. Bernard-Joseph Saurin

    chansonnier, lawyer

    1706–1781

    1706

    Source: BnF authorities

  40. Giuseppe Asclepi

    physicist, astronomer

    1706–1776 · aged 70

    April 21 · 1706

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  41. Louis Charles Fougeret de Monbron

    independent publisher, translator

    1706–1760

    December 19 · 1706

    No external source identified

  42. Andreas Felix von Oefele

    historian, philologist

    1706–1780

    May 17 · 1706

    No external source identified

  43. Frederick William II, Prince of Nassau-Siegen

    Prince of Nassau-Siegen, military personnel

    1706–1734 · aged 27

    November 11 · 1706

    Source: Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau

  44. Charles Augustus of Holstein-Gottorp

    1706–1727 · aged 20

    November 26 · 1706

    Source: Genealogics

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