ON THIS DAY
Born in 1719
51 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Leopold Mozart
musicologist, musician
- Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
aristocrat
- Thomas Gage
official, colonial administrator
- Adil Shah
monarch, ruler
- Xenia of Saint Petersburg
religious
- Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes
politician, diplomat
- Sophia Dorothea of Prussia
ruler, margrave
- George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney
naval officer, politician
- Étienne François, duc de Choiseul
military officer, diplomat
- Reza Qoli Mirza Afshar
military leader, politician
- James Smith
politician, writer
- Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
historian of mathematics, astronomer
- Jinjong
politician
- Jacques Cazotte
philosopher, novelist
- Henry Seymour Conway
army officer, politician
- Domenico Orsini d'Aragona
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Pierre Poivre
merchant, colonial administrator
- Zusha of Hanipol
rabbi
- Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
visual artist, painter
- Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis
soldier, military personnel
- John Boydell
etcher, painter
- Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp
military personnel
- Gottfried Achenwall
mathematician, university teacher
- Axel von Fersen the Elder
politician, military personnel
- Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani
chess player, Catholic priest
- Tanuma Okitsugu
politician, samurai
- Andrew Meikle
inventor, engineer
- Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti
lexicographer, writer
- John Hawkins
essayist, composer
- Johann Christoph Altnickol
composer, organist
- Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim
poet lawyer, canon
- Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt
aristocrat, composer
- Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo
soldier, politician
- Marie Marguerite Bihéron
ceroplastician, anatomist
- Barbara Campanini
dancer, ballet dancer
- Michel-Jean Sedaine
writer, independent publisher
- Ignaz Franz
university teacher, parson
- Christian Mayer
astronomer, scientist
- Johann Gottlob Lehmann
physician, university teacher
- John Landen
surveyor, mathematician
- Pierre-Paul Lemercier de La Rivière de Saint-Médard
economist, colonial administrator
- Francis Home
chemist, military physician
- François-Charles de Velbrück
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Jakob Gadolin
theologian, philosopher
- Johann Elias Schlegel
university teacher, poet
- Dmitry Ukhtomsky
architect
- Rajmundo Kunić
translator, poet
- Giuseppe Toaldo
mathematician, physicist
- Lazzaro Opizio Pallavicini
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- George Campbell
translator, theologian
- Gelasius Dobner
Latin Catholic priest, freedom fighter