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Born in 1728
76 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- James Cook
cartographer, discoverer
- Peter III of Russia
monarch
- Shah Alam II
poet
- Chevalier d'Éon
diplomat, writer
- Oliver Goldsmith
physician, literary critic
- Caesar Rodney
politician, lawyer
- Mercy Otis Warren
playwright, historian
- Robert Adam
politician, furniture designer
- John Hunter
military physician, university teacher
- John Stark
army officer, soldier
- Johann Heinrich Lambert
philosopher, mathematician
- Charles Mason
geodesist, astronomer
- Étienne-Louis Boullée
urban planner, architect
- Joseph Black
physicist, university teacher
- Matthew Boulton
businessperson, mechanical engineer
- Anton Raphael Mengs
painter, art historian
- Princess Louise of France
Princesse
- Nano Nagle
Christian nun
- Bulutkapan Ali Bey
politician, military personnel
- Antoine Court de Gébelin
writer
- Samuel Wallis
explorer
- Karl II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg
monarch, patron of the arts
- Hiraga Gennai
writer, inventor
- Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony
aristocrat
- Kirill Razumovsky
diplomat, marshal
- Niccolò Piccinni
university teacher, music educator
- Ferdinando Galiani
philosopher, Catholic priest
- Francesco Bartolozzi
exlibrist, printmaker
- José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca
diplomat, politician
- Thomas Warton
historian, literary historian
- Princess Eleonora of Savoy
aristocrat
- Samuel-Auguste Tissot
university teacher, physician
- Johann Andreas Stein
organ builder, musical instrument maker
- Pietro Verri
economist, historian
- Johann Gerhard König
scientific collector, botanical collector
- Johann Adam Hiller
cantor, music director
- John Wood
architect
- Therese of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
aristocrat
- Ivan Polzunov
patent inventor
- Johann Georg von Zimmermann
physician, collector
- Richard Mique
master builder, architect
- Charles White
surgeon, gynecologist
- Johann Georg Büsch
opinion journalist, university teacher
- Gaetano Guadagni
actor, singer
- Jean-Baptiste Pillement
etcher, painter
- André Morellet
Catholic priest, writer
- Matei Ghica
dragoman
- Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche
traveler, astronomer
- Johann Gottfried Müthel
pianist, composer
- Antoine Baumé
pharmacist, chemist
- Antoine-Éléonor-Léon Leclerc de Juigné
Catholic priest, politician
- Franz Xaver von Wulfen
scientific collector, mathematician
- Anna Jabłonowska (née Sapieha)
politician, public figure
- Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi
composer, musician
- Zübeyde Sultan
aristocrat
- Isaak Iselin
municipal clerk, jurist
- Maria Angela Ardinghelli
writer, translator
- Qian Daxin
philosopher, scholar
- Pierre Gaviniès
composer
- Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt
astronomer, mathematician
- Carlo Allioni
physician, teacher
- Nicolas-Guy Brenet
visual artist, painter
- Peter Frederik Suhm
philologist, historian
- Franz Joseph Aumann
composer
- Stanislaus Czerniewicz
Catholic theologian, Catholic priest
- Alexander Gerard
philosopher
- Georg Christian Oeder
physician, publisher
- Paolo Frisi
astronomer, Catholic priest
- Guillaume-François Le Trosne
jurist, economist
- Pietro Arduino
botanist, agronomist
- Pyotr Krenitsyn
explorer, military personnel
- Christian Braunmann Tullin
businessperson, rådmand
- Joseph Wenzel, Prince of Fürstenberg
military leader
- Devlet IV Giray
sovereign