WhoWasBorn

A date. A name. A source.

ON THIS DAY

Born in 1730

94 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Alexander Suvorov

    military personnel, soldier

    Date disputed

    November 24 · 1730

    Source: Q25859114

  2. Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

    military officer

    1730–1794 · aged 64

    September 17 · 1730

    Source: GeneaStar

  3. Josiah Wedgwood

    abolitionist, designer

    1730–1795 · aged 64

    July 12 · 1730

    Source: Find a Grave

  4. Henry Clinton

    military officer, politician

    1730–1795 · aged 65

    April 16 · 1730

    Source: Kindred Britain

  5. Rani Velu Nachiyar

    monarch, revolutionary

    1730–1796 · aged 66

    January 3 · 1730

    Source: thenewsminute.com

  6. Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham

    Christian minister, politician

    1730–1782 · aged 52

    May 13 · 1730

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  7. Charles Messier

    astronomer

    1730–1817 · aged 86

    June 26 · 1730

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  8. Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova

    landlord, serial killer

    1730–1801 · aged 71

    March 22 · 1730

    No external source identified

  9. William Hamilton

    politician, volcanologist

    1730–1803 · aged 72

    December 13 · 1730

    Source: SNAC

  10. John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore

    politician

    1730–1809

    1730

    Source: Electronic Enlightenment

  11. William Whipple

    politician, military officer

    1730–1785 · aged 55

    January 14 · 1730

    Source: Find a Grave

  12. Johann Georg Hamann

    writer, lutenist

    1730–1788 · aged 57

    August 27 · 1730

    Source: Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon

  13. Richard Stockton

    politician, judge

    1730–1781 · aged 50

    October 1 · 1730

    Source: SNAC

  14. James Bruce

    explorer, cartographer

    1730–1794 · aged 63

    December 14 · 1730

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  15. Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia

    military officer

    1730–1813 · aged 82

    May 23 · 1730

    Source: The Peerage

  16. Philippe, Duke of Anjou

    1730–1733 · aged 2

    August 30 · 1730

    No external source identified

  17. Maruthanayagam

    warrior

    1730–1764

    1730

    No external source identified

  18. Motoori Norinaga

    writer, poet

    1730–1801 · aged 71

    June 21 · 1730

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  19. Diego Silang

    revolutionary

    1730–1763 · aged 32

    December 16 · 1730

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  20. Aleijadinho

    architect, sculptor

    1730–1814 · aged 84

    August 29 · 1730

    Source: Enciclopédia Negra

  21. Daniel Carroll

    politician

    1730–1796 · aged 65

    July 22 · 1730

    Source: SNAC

  22. Joseph Hewes

    merchant, politician

    Date disputed

    January 23 · 1730

    Source: NCpedia

  23. Étienne Bézout

    mathematician

    1730–1783 · aged 53

    March 31 · 1730

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  24. Jan Ingenhousz

    physiologist, physician

    1730–1799 · aged 68

    December 8 · 1730

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  25. Thomas Chittenden

    politician

    1730–1797

    January 6 · 1730

    Source: Find a Grave

  26. Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony

    regent, soldier

    1730–1806 · aged 75

    August 25 · 1730

    Source: The Peerage

  27. Philip Mazzei

    philosopher, writer

    1730–1816 · aged 85

    December 25 · 1730

    Source: SNAC

  28. Archibald Bulloch

    politician, jurist

    1730–1777 · aged 47

    January 1 · 1730

    Source: SNAC

  29. Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil

    politician, diplomat

    1730–1807 · aged 77

    March 7 · 1730

    Source: La France savante

  30. Koca Yusuf Pasha

    writer, politician

    1730–1800

    1730

    Source: Biographical Dictionary of Georgia

  31. George Ross

    politician, judge

    1730–1779 · aged 49

    May 10 · 1730

    Source: GeneaStar

  32. Jacques de Flesselles

    politician

    1730–1789 · aged 58

    November 11 · 1730

    No external source identified

  33. Charlotte Lennox

    writer, editor

    1730–1804

    1730

    Source: Korean Authority File

  34. James Christie

    auctioneer

    1730–1803

    1730

    Source: British Museum person-institution thesaurus

  35. Otto Friedrich Müller

    carcinologist, biologist

    Date disputed

    March 11 · 1730

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  36. Pedro Fages

    explorer, military personnel

    1730–1794

    1730

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  37. Lucy Terry

    writer, poet

    1730–1821

    1730

    Source: Terry, Lucy (1730-1821), poet

  38. María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa

    benefactor, writer

    1730–1799

    1730

    Source: Library of Congress Authorities

  39. Abel Seyler

    actor, banker

    1730–1800 · aged 69

    August 23 · 1730

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  40. Salomon Gessner

    printer, publisher

    1730–1788 · aged 57

    April 1 · 1730

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  41. Pokou

    politician

    1730–1770

    1730

    No external source identified

  42. Jean-Baptiste Willermoz

    writer

    1730–1824 · aged 93

    July 10 · 1730

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  43. Princess Maria Felicita of Savoy

    1730–1801 · aged 71

    March 19 · 1730

    Source: The Peerage

  44. Antonio Sacchini

    musicologist, composer

    Date disputed

    June 14 · 1730

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  45. Pieter Boddaert

    physiologist, ornithologist

    1730–1795 · aged 64

    May 26 · 1730

    Source: BnF authorities

  46. Johann Hedwig

    botanist, university teacher

    1730–1799 · aged 68

    December 8 · 1730

    Source: Base biographique

  47. Athanase Louis Marie de Loménie, comte de Brienne

    military officer, politician

    1730–1794 · aged 64

    April 20 · 1730

    Source: roglo.eu

  48. John Moore

    Anglican priest

    1730–1805 · aged 74

    April 26 · 1730

    Source: SNAC

  49. Augustin Pajou

    sculptor, artist

    1730–1809 · aged 78

    September 19 · 1730

    Source: La France savante

  50. Sophie d'Houdetot

    philosopher, writer

    1730–1813 · aged 82

    December 18 · 1730

    Source: BnF authorities

  51. Leonardo Antonelli

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1730–1811 · aged 80

    November 6 · 1730

    Source: SNAC

  52. Felice Fontana

    naturalist, botanist

    1730–1805

    April 15 · 1730

    Source: Biographies of the Entomologists of the World

  53. Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk

    rabbi

    1730–1788

    1730

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  54. Elisabetta de Gambarini

    singer, composer

    1730–1765 · aged 34

    September 7 · 1730

    Source: BnF authorities

  55. Ivan Saltykov

    military officer

    1730–1805

    June 28 · 1730

    No external source identified

  56. Alexander Garden

    military physician, botanist

    1730–1791

    1730

    Source: National Library of Wales archives and manuscripts catalogue

  57. Princess Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal

    politician

    1730–1801 · aged 71

    August 11 · 1730

    No external source identified

  58. Izabella Poniatowska

    1730–1808

    July 1 · 1730

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  59. Giovanni Battista Casanova

    university teacher, cartoonist

    Date disputed

    November 2 · 1730

    No external source identified

  60. Yury Felten

    architect

    1730–1801 · aged 71

    June 2 · 1730

    Source: Artists of the World

  61. Ignatius Michael III Jarweh

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1730–1800 · aged 70

    January 3 · 1730

    No external source identified

  62. José Nicolás de Azara

    writer, diplomat

    1730–1804 · aged 73

    December 5 · 1730

    Source: Great Aragonese Encyclopedia

  63. Caterina Gabrielli

    opera singer

    1730–1796 · aged 65

    November 12 · 1730

    Source: BnF authorities

  64. Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

    military personnel, soldier

    1730–1789 · aged 59

    August 15 · 1730

    Source: The Peerage

  65. Karl Borromäus of Liechtenstein

    military personnel, military officer

    1730–1789 · aged 58

    September 20 · 1730

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  66. Constantine Mourousis

    diplomat

    1730–1787

    1730

    No external source identified

  67. Prince Eugene of Saxe-Hildburghausen

    military personnel

    1730–1795 · aged 65

    October 8 · 1730

    Source: The Peerage

  68. Johann Joachim Christoph Bode

    publisher, linguist

    Date disputed

    1730

    Source: LIBRIS

  69. Charles de Wailly

    painter, urban planner

    1730–1798 · aged 67

    November 9 · 1730

    Source: RKDartists

  70. William Hudson

    pharmacist, mycologist

    1730–1793

    1730

    Source: author citation in botany and mycology

  71. Teodoro de Croix

    soldier

    1730–1792 · aged 61

    June 20 · 1730

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  72. Melchiore Cesarotti

    poet, translator

    1730–1808 · aged 78

    May 15 · 1730

    Source: SNAC

  73. Charles Bossut

    engineer, physicist

    1730–1814 · aged 83

    August 11 · 1730

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  74. Procopius of Constantinople

    Eastern Orthodox priest

    Date disputed

    1730

    No external source identified

  75. Paul Henri Mallet

    historian, educator

    1730–1807 · aged 76

    August 20 · 1730

    Source: BnF authorities

  76. Januarius Zick

    painter, architect

    1730–1797

    February 6 · 1730

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  77. Nicolas Baudeau

    Catholic priest, economist

    1730–1792

    April 24 · 1730

    No external source identified

  78. Marie-Joseph Peyre

    architect, painter

    Date disputed

    1730

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  79. Domenico Merlini

    architect

    1730–1797 · aged 66

    February 22 · 1730

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  80. Peter Jonas Bergius

    botanist, donor

    Date disputed

    July 6 · 1730

    Source: Swedish church birth records

  81. Louis Dutens

    writer, archaeologist

    1730–1812 · aged 82

    January 15 · 1730

    Source: BnF authorities

  82. Charles Palissot de Montenoy

    playwright, librarian

    1730–1814 · aged 84

    January 3 · 1730

    Source: La France savante

  83. Aleksander Michał Sapieha

    diplomat

    1730–1793 · aged 62

    September 12 · 1730

    Source: Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny

  84. Domenico Pignatelli di Belmonte

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1730–1803 · aged 72

    November 19 · 1730

    No external source identified

  85. Richard Pulteney

    entomologist, botanical collector

    1730–1801 · aged 71

    February 17 · 1730

    Source: SNAC

  86. Noël Martin Joseph de Necker

    botanist, physician

    1730–1793 · aged 63

    December 25 · 1730

    No external source identified

  87. Anna Barbara Reinhart

    mathematician

    1730–1796 · aged 65

    July 12 · 1730

    Source: FemBio database

  88. Sigismund Anton von Hohenwart

    Catholic priest, Catholic deacon

    1730–1820 · aged 90

    May 2 · 1730

    Source: Hohenwarth, Sigismund Anton Graf von (BLKÖ)

  89. Jean Baptiste d'Agincourt

    archaeologist, anthropologist

    1730–1814 · aged 84

    April 5 · 1730

    Source: SNAC

  90. Johann Peter Alexander Wagner

    architect, sculptor

    1730–1809 · aged 78

    February 26 · 1730

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  91. Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz

    malacologist, parson

    1730–1800 · aged 70

    October 10 · 1730

    Source: BnF authorities

  92. Vincenzo Petagna

    botanist, university teacher

    Date disputed

    January 17 · 1730

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  93. Giovanni Ottavio Manciforte Sperelli

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    Date disputed

    February 22 · 1730

    Source: webdept.fiu.edu

  94. Lokenath Brahmachari

    yogi

    1730–1860 · aged 129

    August 31 · 1730

    No external source identified

Browse by month

JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember

Explore birth years

17351734173317321731173017291728172717261725