ON THIS DAY
Born in 1716
47 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Charles III of Spain
ruler
- Lancelot Brown
gardener, garden designer
- Thomas Gray
literary critic, writer
- George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
military officer, politician
- James Lind
surgeon, naval surgeon
- Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia
consort, composer
- Gaspar de Portolà
soldier, explorer
- Philip Livingston
politician, merchant
- Antonio de Ulloa
naturalist, astronomer
- Wilhelm von Knyphausen
mercenary
- Yosa Buson
painter, calligrapher
- James Brindley
engineer, mechanic
- Itō Jakuchū
wholesaler, greengrocer
- Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
archaeologist, epigrapher
- Yuan Mei
painter, politician
- George Taylor
politician
- Joseph-Marie Vien
designer, politician
- Étienne Maurice Falconet
encyclopédistes, translator
- Jean François de Saint-Lambert
poet, opinion journalist
- Pehr Kalm
economist, priest
- Catherine Théot
preacher
- Luis Egidio Meléndez
painter
- Evgenios Voulgaris
philosopher, teacher
- Giovanni Battista Beccaria
physicist, astronomer
- Felice Giardini
composer, violinist
- John Hill
novelist, publisher
- Antoine-Joseph Pernety
archaeologist, alchemist
- Charles Edzard
aristocrat
- Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton
entomologist, zoologist
- Aleksey Antropov
painter
- Henry Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode
hymnwriter, politician
- Guillaume Coustou the Younger
sculptor
- Charles Christian Erdmann, Duke of Württemberg-Oels
lieutenant general, aristocrat
- Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini
military personnel, diplomat
- Johann Jacob Reiske
philologist, hellenist
- Josef Seger
organist, music educator
- Nicolò Pacassi
architect
- Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz
restorer, architect
- Leonardo Ximenes
astronomer, engineer
- Otto von Münchhausen
High-Bailiff, writer
- Johann Heinrich Rolle
composer
- Leopoldine Marie of Anhalt-Dessau
aristocrat
- Léger Marie Deschamps
philosopher
- Olof Celsius
politician, historian
- Francesco Carrara
prelate