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Born in 1727
78 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Thomas Gainsborough
landscape painter, painter
- Horatio Gates
politician, military officer
- James Wolfe
military officer, soldier
- Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
baron, philosopher
- Mahadaji Scindia
politician
- Mateo de Toro Zambrano, 1st Count of La Conquista
military personnel
- Henriette of France
viol player, aristocrat
- Artemas Ward
politician, military officer
- William Ellery
politician, judge
- Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria
art collector, aristocrat
- Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne
Catholic priest, politician
- Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau
diplomat, ambassador
- William Samuel Johnson
judge, university president
- Johann Gottlieb Goldberg
harpsichordist, composer
- Michel Adanson
entomologist, conchologist
- Jean-Georges Noverre
stage actor, choreographer
- Patrick Russell
naturalist, botanist
- Nicolás Joseph Jacquin
botanical collector, botanist
- Martinez de Pasqually
writer
- Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón
aristocrat, layperson
- David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield
politician, judge
- George Hepplewhite
cabinetmaker, joiner
- Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
graphic artist, printmaker
- Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool
statesperson, politician
- Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov
linguist, patron of the arts
- Philibert Commerson
physician, biologist
- Giovanni Battista Cipriani
printmaker, draftsperson
- Ferdinand Berthoud
watchmaker, master craftsman
- François-Hubert Drouais
draftsperson, painter
- Tommaso Traetta
composer
- Johann Gottfried Zinn
physician, botanist
- Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel
Catholic bishop, bishop
- Francesco Giuseppe Casanova
printmaker, painter
- Jean-André Deluc
naturalist, geologist
- Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix
margrave, soldier
- Antonio Ricardos y Carrillo de Albornoz
military personnel
- Johann Wilhelm Hertel
pianist, musician
- Daines Barrington
naturalist, publisher
- Pasquale Anfossi
violinist, composer
- Ignacy Jakub Massalski
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Hester Chapone
writer
- Johann Joseph Gassner
theologian, exorcist
- Samuel Heinicke
pedagogue, teacher of the deaf
- Zhao Yi
poet, historian
- Armand-Louis Couperin
organist, composer
- Charles François Lhomond
Latin teacher, latinist
- Peter Woulfe
alchemist, mineralogist
- Johann Christoph Gatterer
heraldist, university teacher
- Ignaz Schiffermüller
lepidopterist, naturalist
- Ike Gyokuran
poet, calligrapher
- Rigobert Bonne
cartographer, hydrographer
- Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert
sculptor
- Taddeo Kuntze
painter
- József Batthyány
Catholic bishop, Catholic deacon
- Cosimo Alessandro Collini
scholar, jurist
- Frederik Christian Kaas
large estate owner, naval officer
- Justine Favart
writer, stage actor
- Jean-Claude Richard de Saint-Non
archaeologist, art collector
- Friedrich Hartmann Graf
composer, musician
- Ennemond Alexandre Petitot
engraver, architect
- Andrew Planche
artist, businessperson
- Mathieu-François Pidansat de Mairobert
writer, journalist
- Pierre Montan Berton
composer, conductor
- Pierre-Martial Cibot
Catholic priest, missionary
- Christen Friis Rottbøll
explorer, physician
- David van Royen
physician, botanist
- Gregorio Salviati
Catholic priest, inquisitor
- Diego José Abad y García
writer, poet
- Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy
playwright, philosopher
- Guglielmo Pallotta
Catholic priest