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Born in 1737

64 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Thomas Paine

    politician, philosopher

    1737–1809 · aged 72

    February 9 · 1737

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  2. John Hancock

    statesperson, entrepreneur

    Date disputed

    January 23 · 1737

    Source: Find a Grave

  3. Edward Gibbon

    historian, writer

    Date disputed

    May 8 · 1737

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  4. Phutthayotfa Chulalok

    sovereign

    1737–1809 · aged 72

    March 20 · 1737

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  5. Charles Carroll of Carrollton

    politician

    1737–1832 · aged 95

    September 19 · 1737

    Source: Find a Grave

  6. Luigi Galvani

    university teacher, physician

    1737–1798 · aged 61

    September 9 · 1737

    Source: MAK

  7. Princess Augusta of Great Britain

    aristocrat

    1737–1813 · aged 75

    July 31 · 1737

    No external source identified

  8. Johann Friedrich Struensee

    minister, physician

    1737–1772 · aged 34

    August 5 · 1737

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  9. William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne

    politician, aristocrat

    Date disputed

    May 2 · 1737

    Source: The History of Parliament

  10. Arthur St. Clair

    military officer, politician

    1737–1818 · aged 81

    March 23 · 1737

    Source: npg.si.edu

  11. Michael Haydn

    classical composer, organist

    1737–1806

    1737

    Source: haydnbio.org

  12. Antoine-Augustin Parmentier

    botanist, agronomist

    Date disputed

    August 12 · 1737

    Source: Find a Grave

  13. Francis Hopkinson

    composer, judge

    1737–1791 · aged 53

    September 21 · 1737

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  14. Princess Louise Marie of France

    Christian nun

    1737–1787 · aged 50

    July 15 · 1737

    Source: Genealogics

  15. Ahmed al-Tijani

    scholar, Sufi

    Date disputed

    1737

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  16. Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria

    aristocrat

    1737–1740 · aged 3

    February 5 · 1737

    No external source identified

  17. Tokugawa Ieharu

    samurai

    1737–1786 · aged 49

    June 20 · 1737

    No external source identified

  18. Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov

    admiral, diplomat

    1737–1808

    October 5 · 1737

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  19. Silas Deane

    politician, diplomat

    1737–1789 · aged 51

    December 24 · 1737

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  20. Marie-Louise O'Murphy

    royal mistress, singer

    1737–1814 · aged 77

    October 21 · 1737

    Source: BnF authorities

  21. George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney

    photographer, politician

    1737–1806 · aged 69

    May 14 · 1737

    Source: SNAC

  22. William Forsyth

    botanist, gardener

    1737–1804

    1737

    Source: MAK

  23. Josef Mysliveček

    composer, violinist

    Date disputed

    March 9 · 1737

    Source: Misliweczek, Joseph (BLKÖ)

  24. Sophie Caroline Marie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

    ruler

    1737–1817 · aged 80

    October 8 · 1737

    No external source identified

  25. Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

    geographical engineer (military cartographer), botanist

    1737–1814 · aged 77

    January 19 · 1737

    Source: GeneaStar

  26. John Hunter

    governor, naval officer

    1737–1821 · aged 83

    August 29 · 1737

    Source: SNAC

  27. Alexander Dalrymple

    explorer, hydrographer

    1737–1808 · aged 70

    July 24 · 1737

    Source: SNAC

  28. Suzanne Curchod

    salonnière, socialite

    Date disputed

    June 2 · 1737

    Source: BnF authorities

  29. Prince Josias of Coburg

    military officer

    1737–1815 · aged 77

    December 26 · 1737

    Source: The Peerage

  30. Maria Caterina Brignole

    aristocrat

    1737–1813 · aged 75

    October 7 · 1737

    No external source identified

  31. Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux

    sailor, explorer

    1737–1793

    November 8 · 1737

    No external source identified

  32. Princess Hwawan

    aristocrat

    1737–1808

    1737

    No external source identified

  33. Charlotte de Rohan

    aristocrat

    1737–1760 · aged 22

    October 7 · 1737

    Source: Genealogics

  34. Jacob Philipp Hackert

    painter, landscape painter

    1737–1807 · aged 69

    September 15 · 1737

    Source: SNAC

  35. Charles Hutton

    mathematician, teacher

    1737–1823 · aged 85

    August 14 · 1737

    Source: SNAC

  36. Friedrich Adolf, Count von Kalckreuth

    governor, general field marshal

    1737–1818 · aged 81

    February 22 · 1737

    Source: BnF authorities

  37. Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau

    magistrate, jurist

    1737–1816 · aged 78

    January 4 · 1737

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  38. William Maclay

    politician

    1737–1804 · aged 66

    July 20 · 1737

    Source: SNAC

  39. Joseph Pignatelli

    Catholic theologian, regular cleric

    1737–1811 · aged 73

    December 27 · 1737

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  40. Joseph Nollekens

    sculptor

    1737–1823 · aged 85

    August 11 · 1737

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  41. Frances Abington

    stage actor, actor

    1737–1815

    1737

    Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  42. Vasili Bazhenov

    architect, painter

    1737–1799 · aged 62

    March 12 · 1737

    No external source identified

  43. Platon Levshin

    Eastern Orthodox priest

    Date disputed

    July 21 · 1737

    No external source identified

  44. Pak Chiwŏn

    poet, politician

    Date disputed

    February 5 · 1737

    No external source identified

  45. Otto Heinrich von Igelström

    military officer, diplomat

    1737–1823 · aged 85

    May 7 · 1737

    Source: Baltisches biografisches Lexikon digital

  46. Erik Laxman

    priest, naturalist

    1737–1796 · aged 58

    July 27 · 1737

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  47. Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet

    diplomat, scientific collector

    1737–1801 · aged 63

    April 10 · 1737

    Source: BnF authorities

  48. Morten Thrane Brünnich

    zoologist, geologist

    1737–1827 · aged 89

    September 30 · 1737

    Source: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon

  49. Anton Losenko

    painter

    1737–1773 · aged 36

    August 10 · 1737

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  50. Fanny de Beauharnais

    writer, salonnière

    1737–1813 · aged 75

    October 4 · 1737

    Source: SNAC

  51. Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour

    politician, military officer

    1737–1806 · aged 68

    December 14 · 1737

    Source: BnF authorities

  52. Anne Couppier de Romans

    royal mistress, lady-in-waiting

    1737–1808

    1737

    Source: BnF authorities

  53. Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson

    poet, writer

    Date disputed

    February 3 · 1737

    Source: SNAC

  54. August Wilhelm Hupel

    writer, journalist

    1737–1819 · aged 81

    February 25 · 1737

    Source: BnF authorities

  55. Joseph Hilarius Eckhel

    university teacher, numismatist

    1737–1798 · aged 61

    January 13 · 1737

    Source: Eckhel, Johann Joseph Hilarius (BLKÖ)

  56. Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolai

    librarian, writer

    1737–1820 · aged 82

    December 27 · 1737

    Source: BnF authorities

  57. Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg

    librettist, writer

    1737–1823 · aged 86

    January 3 · 1737

    Source: BnF authorities

  58. Nicolás Fernández de Moratín

    writer, poet

    1737–1780 · aged 42

    July 20 · 1737

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  59. Alexander Callimachis

    diplomat

    1737–1821

    1737

    Source: Genealogics

  60. José del Castillo

    illustrator, draftsperson

    1737–1793 · aged 55

    October 14 · 1737

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  61. Miklós Küzmics

    linguist, translator

    1737–1804 · aged 66

    September 15 · 1737

    Source: obrazislovenskihpokrajin.si

  62. Johann Casimir Häffelin

    Latin Catholic priest, Catholic theologian

    1737–1827 · aged 90

    January 3 · 1737

    No external source identified

  63. Félix Lecomte

    sculptor

    1737–1817 · aged 80

    January 16 · 1737

    Source: Nationalmuseum

  64. Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

    aristocrat

    1737–1758 · aged 20

    June 2 · 1737

    Source: The Peerage

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