ON THIS DAY
Born in 1725
84 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Arthur Guinness
entrepreneur, philanthropist
- Giacomo Casanova
poet, translator
- Robert Clive
military personnel, military officer
- John Newton
slave driver, preacher
- Ahilyabai Holkar
sovereign, politician
- George Mason
politician, lawyer
- Abdul Hamid I
ruler, sultan
- Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
military officer
- Henry Benedict Stuart
Catholic deacon, Catholic priest
- John Wilkes
bretteur, journalist
- Ahmad Shah Bahadur
politician
- Pasquale Paoli
military officer, politician
- Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
politician
- Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
military engineer, engineer
- James Otis
lawyer, journalist
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze
draftsperson, painter
- Pyotr Rumyantsev
general field marshal
- John Morton
politician, judge
- Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre
Großadmiral, governor
- Joseph-Siffred Duplessis
draftsperson, painter
- Tupaia
navigator
- Guillaume Le Gentil
astronomer
- Charles Townshend
politician
- Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel
politician, naval officer
- Daskalogiannis
merchant, resistance fighter
- Franz Moritz von Lacy
military officer, count
- Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée
court painter, sculptor
- Robert Bakewell
biologist, farmer
- Thomas Cushing
politician
- Paul Sandby
graphic artist, etcher
- Alexander Ypsilantis
politician, voivode
- Johann Peter Beaulieu
military officer
- Louis Mandrin
smuggler, criminal
- Theresa Benedicta of Bavaria
aristocrat
- Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc
hospitaller, lay brother
- Dru Drury
entomologist, goldsmith
- Juan José Pérez Hernández
explorer, anthropologist
- Charlotte Finch
governess
- Johann Salomo Semler
philologist, alchemist
- Jean-Baptiste Réveillon
entrepreneur, wallpaper manufacturer
- Naphtali Hirz Wessely
writer, translator
- Le Quy Don
beamter, writer
- Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller
entomologist, naturalist
- Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg
diplomat, historian
- Ivan Osterman
politician, diplomat
- Jean-Étienne Montucla
scientist, translator
- Louis, Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
aristocrat, patron of the arts
- John Hope
surgeon, botanist
- Pablo de Olavide
politician, writer
- Theresa Concordia Mengs
painter, miniature painter
- Ignaz Günther
wood carver, sculptor
- François-Nicolas Martinet
draftsperson, ornithologist
- Ivan Yelagin
translator, poet
- Karl Wilhelm Ramler
composer, poet
- Ferdinando Bertoni
conductor, organist
- Jean-Jacques Caffieri
sculptor, visual artist
- Francesco Milizia
architect, art historian
- Bernhard Rode
visual artist, painter
- Nicolas Desmarest
geologist, geographer
- Joaquín Ibarra y Marín
printer, typographer
- Giulio Variboba
poet, writer
- Esteban Salas y Castro
musicologist, chapelmaster
- Antonio Lolli
composer
- Caspar Stoll
lepidopterist, biologist
- Johan Frederik Classen
businessperson
- Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch
theologian, entomologist
- Johann George Tromlitz
jurist, musician
- William Duesbury
entrepreneur, painter
- Giuseppe Garampi
numismatist, Catholic bishop
- Angelo Maria Durini
bibliophile, inquisitor
- Nicolás del Campo
military personnel
- Theodosius Rostocki
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Leopoldo Marco Antonio Caldani
physician, anatomist
- Étienne Louis Geoffroy
physician, pharmacist
- Peder Als
painter
- Pierre Bayen
pharmacist, chemist
- Anna Maria Rückerschöld
writer
- Luigi Valenti Gonzaga
Catholic deacon, Catholic bishop
- José Francisco Miguel António de Mendonça
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Guido Calcagnini
Catholic bishop, diplomat