ON THIS DAY
Born in 1738
80 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- George III of Great Britain
patron of the arts, aristocrat
- Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
official, army officer
- William Herschel
astronomer, musician
- Túpac Amaru II
rebel, politician
- Ethan Allen
philosopher, farmer
- Arthur Phillip
governor, naval officer
- Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
politician, physician
- Cesare Beccaria
economist, criminologist
- Richard Montgomery
military officer
- Mikhail Kamensky
military officer
- Benjamin West
painter, artist
- John Singleton Copley
miniature painter, printmaker
- Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria
aristocrat, nun
- Nancy Ward
politician
- Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen
general field marshal, military commander
- John Walter
publisher, journalist
- Mary Katharine Goddard
businessperson, editor
- Etteilla
printseller, writer
- Nathaniel Gorham
merchant, politician
- Darejan Dadiani
royalty
- Friedrich Adolf Riedesel
army officer, Commander
- Jacques François Dugommier
military personnel, planter class
- Maria Wilhelmina von Neipperg
lady-in-waiting
- Friedrich August I, Duke of Nassau
military officer, military personnel
- Joseph Johnson
bookseller, publisher
- Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq
military officer
- Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Peter Vitus von Quosdanovich
military officer, military personnel
- Madame de Montesson
playwright, salonnière
- Leopold Hofmann
chapelmaster, conductor
- Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo
explorer, military personnel
- Anna Bon
singer, harpsichordist
- Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham
politician, diplomat
- Abbé Delille
poet, writer
- Johann Hermann
ornithologist, writer
- Claude Michel
visual artist, sculptor
- Jean Nicolas Houchard
Commander, military personnel
- John Wolcot
poet, satirist
- Enevold Brandt
judge, politician
- Thomas Abbt
mathematician, university teacher
- Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz
military officer
- Thomas Peters
millwright, politician
- Matvey Kazakov
architect
- Stanislas de Boufflers
philosopher, encyclopédistes
- Tristram Dalton
politician
- Jacques-André Naigeon
linguist, encyclopédistes
- Pierre-Joseph Desault
physician, surgeon
- Zhang Xuecheng
historian, philosopher
- Lobsang Palden Yeshe, 6th Panchen Lama
writer, Buddhist monk
- John Sloss Hobart
judge, lawyer
- Anton I, Prince Esterházy
arch nobility, patron of the arts
- Countess Charlotte of Dohna-Leistenau
aristocrat
- Mikayel Chamchian
linguist, grammarian
- Betje Wolff
novelist, writer
- Gao E
politician, writer
- Andrey Bolotov
philosopher, agronomist
- Jean Marie du Lau
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Jan Antonín Koželuh
music educator, organist
- Ernst Gottfried Baldinger
botanist, entomologist
- Friederike Sophie Seyler
playwright, stage actor
- James Anderson
surgeon, physician
- James Dickson
botanist, mycologist
- Joseph Jakob von Plenck
botanist, university teacher
- Michelangelo Cambiaso
politician
- Józef Kossakowski
political activist, opinion journalist
- Francesco Maggiotto
painter
- Christian Adolph Klotz
classical philologist, writer
- Pietro Rossi
arachnologist, botanist
- César Guillaume de La Luzerne
Catholic priest, bishop
- Jan Mikołaj Chodkiewicz
military personnel
- Gottlieb Christoph Harless
university teacher, literary historian
- Hubert Maurer
painter, printmaker
- Moritz August von Thümmel
poet lawyer, writer
- Bonaventura Furlanetto
Catholic priest, composer
- Juliana de Lannoy
playwright, poet
- Mikhail Levashev
military personnel, explorer
- Conrad Loddiges
gardener, botanist