ON THIS DAY
Born in 1723
75 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Adam Smith
non-fiction writer, moralist
- Crispus Attucks
sailor, stevedore
- Joshua Reynolds
writer, art collector
- Frederick V of Denmark
monarch
- Prithvi Narayan Shah
monarch
- William Blackstone
writer, university teacher
- John Witherspoon
politician, writer
- Baron d'Holbach
salonnière, writer
- John Byron
naval officer, explorer
- Mir Taqi Mir
writer, prose writer
- William Livingston
lawyer, governor
- Richard Price
philosopher, actuary
- Adam Ferguson
economist, university teacher
- Antoine Louis
encyclopédistes, physiologist
- Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness Holland
aristocrat
- Hannah Snell
soldier
- Catherine Read
artist, painter
- Carl Friedrich Abel
composer, viol player
- William Chambers
architect
- Mathurin Jacques Brisson
entomologist, physicist
- Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm
music critic, diplomat
- Alejandro O'Reilly
military personnel, soldier
- Nicole-Reine Lepaute
mathematician, astronomer
- Anna Amalia of Prussia, Abbess of Quedlinburg
autobiographer, patron of the arts
- Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
botanist, botanical collector
- Jean-François Marmontel
literary critic, writer
- Karoline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt
draftsperson, art collector
- Marcus Elieser Bloch
zoologist, independent publisher
- John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll
politician, military personnel
- Sepé Tiaraju
regular cleric
- Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
politician
- Francisco Palóu
historian, monk
- Iyasu II
monarch
- Tobias Mayer
university teacher, astronomer
- Gavin Hamilton
painter, art dealer
- Ike no Taiga
calligrapher, painter
- Daniel Itzig
banker, court Jew
- David Ruhnken
classical philologist, writer
- John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire
diplomat, politician
- Peter Osbeck
explorer, naturalist
- Peter Ascanius
geologist, biologist
- La Clairon
actor, stage actor
- Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes
politician, writer
- Count Karl Leopold von Schlieben
civil servant, politician
- Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein
physician, naturalist
- Johann Georg Palitzsch
astronomer
- Susanne von Klettenberg
poet, writer
- Pascal Taskin
harpsichord maker, musical instrument maker
- Franz Anton Bustelli
artist, ceramicist
- Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz
university teacher, gynecologist
- Ercole del Rio
chess player, chess composer
- Antonio González Velázquez
muralist, watercolorist
- Giuseppe Scarlatti
composer
- Johann Ludwig Aberli
draftsperson, painter
- Catherine Charlotte De la Gardie
lady-in-waiting
- Francisco de Saldanha da Gama
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Jacques Pierre Abbatucci
military officer
- Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus
entomologist, zoologist
- Daniel Rolander
botanist, curator
- Friedrich Karl von Moser
opinion journalist, jurist
- Marco Antonio Gentile
politician
- Charles Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
military personnel
- Antonio Caballero y Góngora
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Louis-Pierre Anquetil
historian, Catholic priest
- György Pray
librarian, politician
- Francesco Uttini
court chapel master, composer
- Georg Rudolf Boehmer
entomologist, physician
- Giovanni Marco Rutini
bandleader, harpsichordist
- István Küzmics
teacher, writer
- Saverio Manetti
naturalist, botanist
- Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe
aristocrat
- Frederick William III, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
military personnel