ON THIS DAY
Born in 1724
85 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Immanuel Kant
librarian, author
- Maria Amalia of Saxony
Queen Consort of Spain
- Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria
art collector, dignitary
- Louise of Great Britain
aristocrat, consort
- Cao Xueqin
ci lyric writer, painter
- George Stubbs
printmaker, painter
- Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
admiral, politician
- Ernest Frederick of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
aristocrat
- Guy Carleton
politician
- Christopher Gadsden
politician, military officer
- Henry Laurens
politician, slave trader
- John Smeaton
physicist, civil engineer
- John Michell
natural philosopher, Anglican priest
- Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser
military commander, military personnel
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
poet, librettist
- Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria
pianist, patron of the arts
- Lyman Hall
politician
- Suzuki Harunobu
xylographer, illustrator
- Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
military officer, military personnel
- Peter von Biron
patron of the arts, politician
- Dharma Raja
composer
- Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne
explorer
- Honma Munehisa
merchant
- William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe
military leader, aristocrat
- George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend
draftsperson, military officer
- Tikhon of Zadonsk
theologian, priest
- Johann Bernhard Basedow
pedagogue, philanthropist
- Giacomo Maria Brignole
politician
- Chaim Joseph David Azulai
explorer, rabbi
- George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle
military officer, politician
- Gottfried Heinrich Bach
musician, composer
- Felipe de Neve
governor, explorer
- Eva Ekeblad
chemist, salonnière
- Ji Yun
politician, writer
- Jane Colden
botanist, botanical collector
- Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol
naval officer, politician
- William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry
politician
- Christopher Anstey
writer, poet
- Georges-Louis Le Sage
physicist, mathematician
- Claude Balbastre
music arranger, organist
- Dai Zhen
philosopher, mathematician
- Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur
politician
- Grigore III Ghica
dragoman
- Franz Anton Maulbertsch
copper engraver, draftsperson
- Frances Brooke
journalist, novelist
- Franz Aepinus
physicist, mathematician
- Johan Zoutman
military officer
- Johann Julius Walbaum
physician, naturalist
- Wichard Joachim Heinrich von Möllendorf
military officer, governor
- Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann
publisher, diplomat
- William Mason
Catholic priest, draftsperson
- Ivazzade Halil Paşa
politician
- Georg Adam, Prince of Starhemberg
diplomat, politician
- César-Constantin-François de Hoensbroeck
Catholic deacon, Catholic priest
- Jean-Joseph de Laborde
slave trader, banker
- Giovanni Battista Casti
librettist, poet
- John Mainwaring
university teacher, biographer
- Anton Friedrich Büsching
head teacher, geographer
- Jean-Jacques Bachelier
writer, porcelain painter
- Carlo Rezzonico
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Marcantonio Colonna
Catholic deacon, Catholic priest
- Stefano Ittar
architect
- Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval
Catholic priest, theologian
- Johann Ignaz von Felbiger
pedagogue, Catholic theologian
- Jean Darcet
politician, physician
- Johann Gerhard Reinhard Andreae
chemist, geologist
- Buenaventura de Córdoba Espínola de la Cerda
Catholic bishop, archbishop
- Wilhelm Heinrich Kramer
naturalist, botanist
- Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf
astronomer, naturalist
- Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon
mathematician
- Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
naturalist, lepidopterist
- Pedro Correia Garção
playwright, poet
- Vincenzo Maria Altieri
Catholic priest
- Jens Schielderup Sneedorff
professor, author
- Charles Joseph Devillers
naturalist, entomologist
- Bernardino Honorati
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Adam Gottlob Schirach
theologian, beekeeper