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Born in 1721

55 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Madame de Pompadour

    salonnière, royal mistress

    1721–1764 · aged 42

    December 29 · 1721

    Source: Genealogics

  2. Roger Sherman

    judge, statesperson

    1721–1793 · aged 72

    April 19 · 1721

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  3. Prince William, Duke of Cumberland

    animal breeder, military officer

    Date disputed

    April 15 · 1721

    Source: Kindred Britain

  4. Peyton Randolph

    politician, farmer

    1721–1775 · aged 54

    September 10 · 1721

    Source: SNAC

  5. John Hanson

    politician

    1721–1783 · aged 62

    April 14 · 1721

    No external source identified

  6. Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz

    military commander, military personnel

    1721–1773

    February 3 · 1721

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  7. Tobias Smollett

    novelist, physician

    1721–1771 · aged 50

    March 19 · 1721

    Source: BnF authorities

  8. Johann de Kalb

    military officer

    1721–1780 · aged 59

    June 19 · 1721

    Source: SNAC

  9. Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken

    politician, scholar

    1721–1774 · aged 53

    March 9 · 1721

    Source: Find a Grave

  10. Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

    general field marshal, military officer

    1721–1792 · aged 71

    January 12 · 1721

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  11. John Manners, Marquess of Granby

    lieutenant general, politician

    1721–1770 · aged 49

    January 2 · 1721

    Source: The Peerage

  12. Angelo Soliman

    Kammerdiener, educator

    1721–1796

    1721

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  13. Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

    politician, jurist

    1721–1794 · aged 72

    December 6 · 1721

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  14. Thérèse Levasseur

    lingère

    1721–1801 · aged 79

    September 21 · 1721

    Source: BnF authorities

  15. Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano

    military personnel

    1721–1778 · aged 57

    September 25 · 1721

    Source: The Peerage

  16. Pierre Jaquet-Droz

    watchmaker, mechanical automaton engineer

    1721–1790 · aged 69

    July 28 · 1721

    No external source identified

  17. Edmund Pendleton

    lawyer, judge

    1721–1803 · aged 82

    September 9 · 1721

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  18. Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford

    politician

    1721–1803 · aged 82

    August 4 · 1721

    Source: The Peerage

  19. James Murray

    civil servant

    Date disputed

    January 21 · 1721

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  20. William Collins

    poet, writer

    1721–1759 · aged 37

    December 25 · 1721

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  21. Samuel von Brukenthal

    librarian, politician

    1721–1803 · aged 81

    July 26 · 1721

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  22. Pierre Victor, baron de Besenval de Brünstatt

    poet, military personnel

    1721–1791 · aged 69

    October 14 · 1721

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  23. Christian Heinrich Heineken

    child prodigy

    1721–1725 · aged 4

    February 6 · 1721

    No external source identified

  24. Johann Kirnberger

    conductor, composer

    1721–1783 · aged 62

    April 24 · 1721

    Source: SNAC

  25. Fredrik Henrik af Chapman

    military personnel, shipbuilder

    1721–1808 · aged 86

    September 9 · 1721

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  26. Joan Crespí

    missionary, explorer

    1721–1782 · aged 60

    March 1 · 1721

    Source: SNAC

  27. Pierre Van Cortlandt

    politician

    1721–1814 · aged 93

    January 10 · 1721

    Source: Find a Grave

  28. Khwaja Mir Dard

    poet

    1721–1785

    1721

    Source: Encyclopædia Universalis

  29. Joseph de Guignes

    professor, sinologist

    1721–1800 · aged 78

    October 19 · 1721

    Source: SNAC

  30. Anna Dorothea Therbusch

    artist, painter

    1721–1782 · aged 61

    July 23 · 1721

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  31. John McKinly

    politician, physician

    Date disputed

    February 21 · 1721

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  32. Benjamin Wilson

    etcher, naturalist

    1721–1788 · aged 66

    July 2 · 1721

    Source: SNAC

  33. Charles-Louis Clérisseau

    architect, painter

    1721–1820 · aged 98

    August 28 · 1721

    Source: Léonore database

  34. Mark Akenside

    poet, physician

    1721–1770 · aged 48

    November 9 · 1721

    Source: SNAC

  35. Pyotr Panin

    military personnel, military officer

    1721–1789

    1721

    Source: MAK

  36. Ivan Gonta

    military personnel

    Date disputed

    1721

    No external source identified

  37. Francesco Sabatini

    architect

    1721–1797

    1721

    Source: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

  38. Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach

    1721–1794 · aged 73

    January 17 · 1721

    Source: CERL Thesaurus

  39. John Frederick, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

    aristocrat

    1721–1767 · aged 46

    January 8 · 1721

    Source: The Peerage

  40. Pieter Cramer

    lepidopterist

    1721–1776 · aged 55

    January 21 · 1721

    No external source identified

  41. Philipp Friedrich Gmelin

    physician, botanist

    1721–1768 · aged 46

    August 19 · 1721

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  42. Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn

    art collector, diplomat

    1721–1793 · aged 72

    May 15 · 1721

    Source: FINA Wiki

  43. Jean-François Oeben

    cabinetmaker, master craftsman

    1721–1763

    October 9 · 1721

    Source: BnF authorities

  44. Pieter Hellendaal

    composer, music teacher

    1721–1799 · aged 78

    April 1 · 1721

    Source: BnF authorities

  45. Charles Marie Raymond, Prince and 5th Duke of Arenberg

    politician, military officer

    Date disputed

    April 1 · 1721

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  46. François Hemsterhuis

    writer, archaeologist

    1721–1790 · aged 68

    December 27 · 1721

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  47. Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni

    composer, painter

    1721–1782 · aged 60

    August 25 · 1721

    No external source identified

  48. John Mudge

    physician, scientist

    1721–1793 · aged 71

    October 6 · 1721

    Source: The Peerage

  49. Johann Nikolaus Götz

    translator, poet

    1721–1781 · aged 60

    July 9 · 1721

    No external source identified

  50. Bernardino Giraud

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1721–1782 · aged 60

    July 14 · 1721

    No external source identified

  51. François Arnaud

    musicologist, cleric

    1721–1784 · aged 63

    July 27 · 1721

    Source: SNAC

  52. Giovanni Battista Bussi de Pretis

    Catholic priest

    1721–1800 · aged 78

    September 11 · 1721

    No external source identified

  53. Frederick Christian I of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg

    military personnel

    1721–1794 · aged 73

    April 6 · 1721

    Source: The Peerage

  54. Marcantonio Marcolini

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1721–1782 · aged 60

    November 22 · 1721

    Source: Catholic-Hierarchy.org

  55. William Robertson

    historian, writer

    1721–1793 · aged 71

    September 19 · 1721

    Source: Babelio

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