ON THIS DAY
Born in 1726
75 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Jacob Frank
astrologer, heresiarch
- Benjamin Harrison V
politician
- James Hutton
physician, naturalist
- Gerard Majella
tailor, nurse
- Prince Heinrich of Prussia
diplomat
- Vittorio Amadeo III of Sardinia
patron of the arts, art collector
- Ludovico Manin
politician
- George Wythe
politician, jurist
- François-André Danican Philidor
chess player, pianist
- Sergei Saltykov
diplomat
- William Prescott
military personnel
- Hugh Mercer
physician, military officer
- Oliver Wolcott
physician, politician
- William Alexander
author, soldier
- Louise Henriette de Bourbon
aristocrat
- James Bowdoin
politician, governor
- Charles Burney
historian, composer
- Lewis Morris
politician
- Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain
aristocrat
- Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe
admiral, sailor
- Abraham Clark
politician, lawyer
- Thomas Pennant
malacologist, botanist
- Eyre Coote
military personnel, politician
- John Howard
social reformer
- Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel
aristocrat
- Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este
aristocrat
- Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham
politician, naval officer
- Hector Munro, 8th of Novar
politician
- Princess Louise of Denmark
aristocrat
- Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
miniature painter, architectural drafter
- Louise d'Épinay
woman of letters, salonnière
- François-Thomas Germain
goldsmith, silversmith
- Katsukawa Shunshō
ukiyo-e artist, painter
- Andrew Bell
publisher, printer
- William Roy
major general, geographer
- Vasily Chichagov
military personnel, explorer
- Zaharije Orfelin
Church Slavonic writers, historian
- Jedediah Strutt
entrepreneur, inventor
- Francis Cotes
portrait painter, painter
- Friedrich von der Trenck
writer, military officer
- Gabriel François Doyen
painter
- Lamdarja
Lama, khan
- Christian Albert, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
military personnel
- William, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal
politician
- Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal
engineer
- Antonio Zucchi
draftsperson, painter
- Anna Blackburne
sponsor, botanist
- Eggert Ólafsson
poet, explorer
- Esma Sultan
aristocrat
- Jovan Rajić
philosopher, geographer
- Pinchas of Koretz
rabbi
- François Denis Tronchet
jurist-consultant, politician
- Joseph de Ferraris
cartographer, general field marshal
- Joseph Emin
public figure, prose writer
- John Anderson
philosopher, inventor
- Francesco Cetti
university teacher, naturalist
- Christian Felix Weiße
translator, children's writer
- Johann Hartmann
composer
- Sahib II Giray
sovereign
- John Berkenhout
physician, botanist
- Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle
librarian, translator
- Anne Monson
scientific collector, botanist
- Alexander Kokorinov
architect
- Angelo Maria Bandini
scholar, librarian
- José Clavijo y Fajardo
writer, journalist
- Joannes-Henricus de Franckenberg
Catholic deacon, Catholic priest
- Françoise Duparc
painter, artist
- Franz Joseph I of Liechtenstein
politician
- Hans Strøm
botanist, parson
- Claude-François-Xavier Millot
historian, Catholic priest
- Gabriel-Henri Gaillard
literary scholar, grammarian
- John Walsh
naturalist, biologist
- Carlo Antonio Martini
writer, jurist
