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Born in 1729

67 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Catherine II of Russia

    monarch, art collector

    1729–1796 · aged 67

    May 2 · 1729

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  2. Edmund Burke

    philosopher, writer

    1729–1797 · aged 68

    January 12 · 1729

    Source: Internet Philosophy Ontology project

  3. William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe

    military officer, military personnel

    1729–1814 · aged 84

    August 10 · 1729

    Source: The Peerage

  4. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

    art historian, philosopher

    1729–1781 · aged 52

    January 22 · 1729

    Source: RKDartists

  5. Moses Mendelssohn

    translator, literary scholar

    1729–1786 · aged 56

    September 6 · 1729

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  6. Louis, Dauphin of France

    politician

    1729–1765 · aged 36

    September 4 · 1729

    Source: Genealogics

  7. Louis-Antoine de Bougainville

    travel writer, naval officer

    1729–1811 · aged 81

    November 12 · 1729

    Source: BnF authorities

  8. Josiah Bartlett

    governor, jurist

    1729–1795 · aged 65

    November 21 · 1729

    Source: GeneaStar

  9. Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

    consort

    1729–1796 · aged 67

    September 4 · 1729

    Source: The Peerage

  10. María Antonia of Spain

    1729–1785 · aged 55

    November 17 · 1729

    Source: The Peerage

  11. Ignatius Sancho

    composer, writer

    1729–1780

    1729

    Source: Trove

  12. John Parker

    farmer, military personnel

    1729–1775 · aged 46

    July 13 · 1729

    Source: Find a Grave

  13. Lazzaro Spallanzani

    botanist, paleontologist

    1729–1799 · aged 70

    January 12 · 1729

    Source: general catalog of BnF

  14. Charles Thomson

    writer, politician

    1729–1824 · aged 94

    November 29 · 1729

    Source: Find a Grave

  15. Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey

    military officer, soldier

    1729–1807 · aged 78

    October 23 · 1729

    Source: Kindred Britain

  16. Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing

    military personnel, politician

    1729–1794 · aged 64

    November 24 · 1729

    Source: Roglo

  17. Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez

    naval officer

    1729–1788 · aged 59

    July 17 · 1729

    Source: BnF authorities

  18. Anne d'Arpajon

    lady-in-waiting

    1729–1794

    1729

    Source: Catalog of the German National Library

  19. Johann Reinhold Forster

    ichthyologist, naturalist

    1729–1798 · aged 69

    October 22 · 1729

    Source: La France savante

  20. John Wilkinson

    metallurgist, inventor

    Date disputed

    1729

    Source: britannica.com

  21. Michael von Melas

    military officer

    1729–1806 · aged 77

    May 12 · 1729

    No external source identified

  22. Antonio Soler

    chapelmaster, musicologist

    1729–1783

    1729

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  23. Clara Reeve

    writer, translator

    1729–1807 · aged 78

    January 23 · 1729

    Source: BnF authorities

  24. Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Falkenburg-Dagsburg

    aristocrat

    1729–1818 · aged 88

    March 16 · 1729

    Source: The Peerage

  25. Richard Caswell

    lawyer, governor

    1729–1789 · aged 60

    August 3 · 1729

    Source: SNAC

  26. Anders Chydenius

    politician, parson

    1729–1803 · aged 73

    February 26 · 1729

    Source: Biografiskt lexikon för Finland

  27. Giuseppe Parini

    librettist, cleric

    1729–1799

    May 23 · 1729

    Source: Parini, Giuseppe (BLKÖ)

  28. Florian Leopold Gassmann

    composer, organist

    1729–1774

    May 3 · 1729

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  29. Anna Maria Schwegelin

    domestic worker

    1729–1781 · aged 52

    January 23 · 1729

    No external source identified

  30. Jigme Lingpa

    writer, Tertön

    1729–1798

    1729

    Source: NUKAT

  31. William Fleming

    governor, surgeon

    1729–1794

    February 18 · 1729

    Source: SNAC

  32. Thomas Percy

    bishop, collector

    1729–1811 · aged 82

    April 13 · 1729

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  33. Princess Maria Luisa of Savoy

    1729–1767 · aged 38

    March 25 · 1729

    Source: The Peerage

  34. Christian Gottlob Heyne

    anthropologist, court counsel

    1729–1812 · aged 82

    September 25 · 1729

    Source: KNAW Past Members

  35. Pedro Loefling

    scientific collector, botanist

    Date disputed

    January 20 · 1729

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  36. Giuseppe Sarti

    director, conductor

    1729–1802

    December 1 · 1729

    Source: SNAC

  37. Joachim Chreptowicz

    politician, civil servant

    1729–1812 · aged 83

    January 4 · 1729

    Source: Urzędnicy Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego. Spisy, t. VI, Ziemia nowogródzka i wojew…

  38. Johann Daniel Titius

    botanist, physicist

    1729–1796

    January 2 · 1729

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  39. Ivan Argunov

    painter

    1729–1802

    1729

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  40. Gaétan Vestris

    ballet dancer, choreographer

    1729–1808 · aged 79

    April 18 · 1729

    Source: SNAC

  41. Michael Drakos Soutzos

    Dragoman of the Porte, diplomat

    Date disputed

    1729

    Source: ancestors.familysearch.org

  42. Johann Gottlieb Georgi

    university teacher, explorer

    1729–1802 · aged 72

    December 31 · 1729

    Source: Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia

  43. Alexander Bibikov

    military personnel, politician

    1729–1774 · aged 44

    June 10 · 1729

    Source: Q25371181

  44. Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe

    architect

    1729–1800

    1729

    Source: RKDartists

  45. Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny

    composer

    1729–1817 · aged 87

    October 17 · 1729

    Source: SNAC

  46. Claude François Geoffroy

    chemist, pharmacist

    1729–1753

    1729

    Source: La France savante

  47. Michael Denis

    librarian, zoologist

    1729–1800 · aged 71

    September 27 · 1729

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  48. Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1729–1800 · aged 70

    October 31 · 1729

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  49. Cláudio Manuel da Costa

    poet, musician

    1729–1789 · aged 60

    June 5 · 1729

    Source: Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural

  50. Fyodor Volkov

    painter, stage actor

    1729–1763

    February 20 · 1729

    Source: Concise Literary Encyclopedia

  51. Egidio Maria of Saint Joseph

    religious, Catholic theologian

    1729–1812 · aged 82

    November 16 · 1729

    Source: gcatholic.org

  52. František Xaver Pokorný

    violinist, composer

    1729–1794 · aged 64

    December 20 · 1729

    Source: BnF authorities

  53. Pieter van Maldere

    composer, violinist

    1729–1768 · aged 39

    October 16 · 1729

    Source: BnF authorities

  54. William Bradford

    lawyer, politician

    1729–1808 · aged 78

    November 4 · 1729

    Source: Find a Grave

  55. Anton Cajetan Adlgasser

    composer, playwright

    1729–1777

    October 1 · 1729

    Source: Salzburgwiki

  56. Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays

    painter

    1729–1765 · aged 35

    November 27 · 1729

    Source: BnF authorities

  57. Edward Delaval

    aristocrat, chemist

    1729–1814

    1729

    Source: SNAC

  58. Frederick Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

    military personnel

    1729–1809 · aged 80

    April 5 · 1729

    Source: The Peerage

  59. Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

    writer, poet

    1729–1807 · aged 78

    August 11 · 1729

    Source: BnF authorities

  60. Lekain

    stage actor, actor

    1729–1778 · aged 48

    March 31 · 1729

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  61. Francisco Javier Alegre

    philosopher, translator

    1729–1788

    November 12 · 1729

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  62. Richard François Philippe Brunck

    translator, classical philologist

    1729–1803 · aged 73

    December 30 · 1729

    Source: La France savante

  63. Antonin Theodor Hrabe Colloredo-Waldsee

    Catholic priest, Catholic deacon

    Date disputed

    July 17 · 1729

    Source: data.matricula-online.eu

  64. Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh

    artist, painter

    1729–1781

    May 29 · 1729

    No external source identified

  65. Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini

    physician, naturalist

    1729–1778 · aged 48

    August 31 · 1729

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  66. Anton Rolandsson Martin

    naturalist, botanist

    1729–1785 · aged 55

    August 3 · 1729

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  67. Valentino Mastrozzi

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1729–1809 · aged 79

    July 24 · 1729

    No external source identified

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