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Born in 1709

57 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Samuel Johnson

    lexicographer, critic

    1709–1784 · aged 75

    September 18 · 1709

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  2. Elizabeth I of Russia

    monarch, aristocrat

    1709–1762 · aged 52

    December 29 · 1709

    Source: Biografiskt lexikon för Finland

  3. Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans

    Queen Consort of Spain

    1709–1742 · aged 32

    December 9 · 1709

    No external source identified

  4. Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange

    aristocrat, painter

    1709–1759 · aged 49

    November 2 · 1709

    Source: Biografisch Portaal

  5. Georg Wilhelm Steller

    geologist, scientific collector

    1709–1746

    March 10 · 1709

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  6. John Cleland

    playwright, novelist

    1709–1789 · aged 79

    September 24 · 1709

    Source: SNAC

  7. Julien Offray de La Mettrie*

    physician, philosopher

    Date disputed

    December 12 · 1709

    Source: Roglo

  8. Alexey Razumovsky

    general field marshal, singer

    1709–1771 · aged 62

    March 28 · 1709

    No external source identified

  9. Ekkathat

    military officer, sovereign

    1709–1767

    1709

    No external source identified

  10. Tokugawa Ietsugu

    politician, military personnel

    1709–1716 · aged 6

    August 8 · 1709

    No external source identified

  11. Jacques de Vaucanson

    engineer, inventor

    1709–1782 · aged 73

    February 24 · 1709

    Source: SNAC

  12. Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

    lutenist, librettist

    1709–1758 · aged 49

    July 3 · 1709

    Source: FemBio database

  13. Étienne de Silhouette

    translator, writer

    1709–1767 · aged 57

    July 5 · 1709

    Source: BnF authorities

  14. William Beckford

    plantation owner, businessperson

    1709–1770

    1709

    Source: Legacies of British Slave-ownership

  15. Gabriel Bonnot de Mably

    politician, writer

    1709–1785

    March 14 · 1709

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  16. Andreas Sigismund Marggraf

    entomologist, physicist

    1709–1782 · aged 73

    March 3 · 1709

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  17. Charles Avison

    composer, music educator

    1709–1770

    1709

    Source: Grove Music Online

  18. Louis de Bourbon, Count of Clermont

    military commander, cleric

    1709–1771 · aged 62

    June 15 · 1709

    Source: Genealogics

  19. Franz Xaver Richter*

    music educator, composer

    Date disputed

    December 1 · 1709

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  20. Franz Benda*

    chapelmaster, concertmaster

    Date disputed

    November 22 · 1709

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  21. Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort

    politician

    1709–1756 · aged 47

    September 12 · 1709

    Source: The Peerage

  22. Charles de Brosses*

    travel writer, philologist

    Date disputed

    February 7 · 1709

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  23. George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton*

    patron of the arts, politician

    Date disputed

    January 17 · 1709

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  24. Simón de Anda y Salazar

    military personnel, judge

    1709–1776 · aged 67

    October 28 · 1709

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  25. Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon

    politician, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary

    1709–1786

    1709

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  26. Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt

    military officer, ruler

    1709–1788 · aged 79

    August 21 · 1709

    Source: The Peerage

  27. Johann Georg Gmelin*

    geographer, botanical collector

    Date disputed

    August 10 · 1709

    Source: SNAC

  28. Carl Alexander Clerck*

    naturalist, lepidopterist

    Date disputed

    1709

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  29. Jean-Baptiste de Belloy

    politician, archbishop

    1709–1808 · aged 98

    October 9 · 1709

    Source: SNAC

  30. Vasilije III Petrović-Njegoš

    Eastern Orthodox priest, historian

    1709–1766

    1709

    Source: CONOR.SR

  31. Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan

    playwright, translator

    1709–1784 · aged 75

    August 10 · 1709

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  32. Catherine Cadière

    1709–date unavailable

    November 12 · 1709

    Source: SNAC

  33. Christoph Schaffrath

    harpsichordist, composer

    1709–1763

    1709

    Source: MAK

  34. Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

    playwright, writer

    1709–1777 · aged 67

    August 29 · 1709

    Source: SNAC

  35. Francesco Araja*

    chapelmaster, composer

    Date disputed

    June 25 · 1709

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  36. Johan Gottschalk Wallerius

    chemist, mineralogist

    1709–1785 · aged 76

    July 11 · 1709

    Source: BnF authorities

  37. Christian Gottlieb Ludwig

    botanist, writer

    1709–1773 · aged 64

    April 30 · 1709

    Source: Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig

  38. Théodore Tronchin*

    encyclopédistes, physician

    Date disputed

    May 24 · 1709

    No external source identified

  39. Thomas-François Dalibard*

    physicist, naturalist

    Date disputed

    November 5 · 1709

    Source: BnF authorities

  40. Giovanni Battista Ferrandini*

    composer

    Date disputed

    October 12 · 1709

    Source: BnF authorities

  41. Charles Collé

    writer, chansonnier

    1709–1783 · aged 74

    April 14 · 1709

    Source: BnF authorities

  42. Molla Vali Vidadi

    teacher, poet

    1709–1809

    1709

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  43. Giuseppe Zais

    painter

    1709–1781 · aged 72

    March 22 · 1709

    Source: Nationalmuseum

  44. John Armstrong

    physician, poet

    1709–1779

    1709

    Source: Trove

  45. Giovanni Carlo Bandi

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1709–1784 · aged 74

    July 17 · 1709

    No external source identified

  46. Jan de Witte

    architect, military engineer

    1709–1785 · aged 76

    July 8 · 1709

    No external source identified

  47. Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Jerusalem

    parson, theologian

    1709–1789 · aged 79

    November 22 · 1709

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  48. Savva Chevakinsky*

    architect

    Date disputed

    1709

    Source: tzar.ru

  49. Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg

    translator, linguist

    1709–1779 · aged 70

    February 12 · 1709

    Source: BnF authorities

  50. Petru Pavel Aron

    Bible translator, Catholic deacon

    1709–1764

    1709

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  51. Johannes Gessner

    bibliographer, naturalist

    1709–1790 · aged 81

    March 18 · 1709

    Source: BnF authorities

  52. Giovanni Domenico Maraldi*

    astronomer, mathematician

    Date disputed

    April 17 · 1709

    Source: BnF authorities

  53. Ernst Ludwig II of Saxe-Meiningen

    aristocrat

    1709–1729 · aged 19

    August 8 · 1709

    Source: The Peerage

  54. Ludvig Harboe

    historian, presbyter

    1709–1783 · aged 73

    August 16 · 1709

    Source: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon

  55. Agostino Lomellini

    politician

    1709–1791

    1709

    No external source identified

  56. Friedrich Christian Baumeister

    writer, university teacher

    1709–1785 · aged 76

    July 17 · 1709

    Source: Baumeister, Friedrich Christian

  57. Cornelia van der Mijn

    painter, botanical illustrator

    1709–1782

    1709

    No external source identified

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