ON THIS DAY
Born in 1740
97 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Marquis de Sade
playwright, philosopher
- Ivan VI of Russia
statesperson
- James Boswell
biographer, diarist
- Haym Solomon
entrepreneur, economics of banking
- Go-Sakuramachi
politician
- John Sullivan
lawyer, politician
- Jeanne Baret
naturalist, botanist
- Johann van Beethoven
composer, singer
- Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay
military personnel
- Charles O'Hara
military personnel
- Johann Rall
mercenary, soldier
- Ali Murad Khan
sovereign, ruler
- Giovanni Paisiello
composer
- Nicolas Chamfort
politician, writer
- Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria
aristocrat
- Johann Jakob Schweppe
goldsmith, entrepreneur
- Carl Michael Bellman
poet, composer
- Francis Light
explorer
- David Bushnell
military personnel, inventor
- William Paca
jurist, planter class
- Elias Boudinot
writer, politician
- Isabelle de Charrière
writer, philosopher
- Juan Ignacio Molina
geographer, botanist
- Horace Bénédict de Saussure
rock climber, naturalist
- Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev
rabbi, musician
- Augustus Toplady
composer, writer
- Philip James de Loutherbourg
painter, costume designer
- Giambattista Bodoni
book printer, editor
- John Latham
illustrator, physician
- Jonathan Trumbull Jr.
politician
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier
literary historian, journalist
- Matthias Claudius
independent publisher, editing staff
- Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine
politician, military officer
- Maria Kunigunde of Saxony
abbess, business executive
- John Cartwright
politician, naval officer
- Kara Mahmud Bushati
politician
- Abdullah I Al-Sabah
governor, politician
- Arthur Lee
diplomat, lawyer
- Johann Friedrich Oberlin
social reformer, pastor
- Anders Johan Lexell
physicist, mathematician
- Alexander Martin
prosecutor, judge
- Henry Cort
inventor, businessperson
- Iyoas I
politician
- Georg Magnus Sprengtporten
politician, military personnel
- Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux
diplomat, politician
- Samuel Arnold
editor, musicologist
- Sophie Arnould
actor, salonnière
- Johan Tobias Sergel
painter, cartoonist
- Tomasa Tito Condemayta
revolutionary
- Johann Georg Jacobi
playwright, opinion journalist
- Nicholas Pocock
artist, painter
- Thomas Percival
physician
- John Bacon
sculptor
- Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein
chemist, discoverer
- Mateo Pumacahua
military officer
- Gaspare Pacchierotti
opera singer, singer
- Maksym Zalizniak
politician
- Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling
physician writer, non-fiction writer
- Armand-Gaston Camus
politician, jurist
- John Frere
politician, anthropologist
- Antoine Vestier
painter
- Gabriel Gruber
naturalist, engineer
- Pierre Victor, baron Malouet
politician
- Hugh Douglas Hamilton
painter
- Ernestine Augusta of Saxe-Weimar
aristocrat
- Ienăchiță Văcărescu
linguist, grammarian
- Ignatius Mouradgea d’Ohsson
diplomat, historian
- Michael Arne
composer, singer
- Elisabeth Olin
actor, composer
- Juan Andrés
professor, librarian
- Johann Georg Heinrich Feder
writer, philosopher
- Fedot Ivanovich Shubin
sculptor
- Johan Andreas Murray
physician, entomologist
- Giovanni Meli
playwright, physician
- Thomas Walter
botanist
- Johann von Michelsohnen
governor
- Ernst Eichner
composer
- Scipione de' Ricci
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Yakov Knyazhnin
linguist, poet
- Nicola Spedalieri
Catholic priest, writer
- Semyon Desnitsky
linguist, philosopher
- Ivan Lepyokhin
lexicographer, biologist
- Thomas Bugge
mathematician, geographer
- Jeronimo de Bosch
writer, classical philologist
- Johann Rudolph Schellenberg
engraver, botanist
- Carl Friedrich Wenzel
engineer, chemist
- Marcin Knackfus
architect
- Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida
poet, teacher
- Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
entrepreneur, industrialist
- Giovanni Battista Rezzonico
Catholic priest
- Manuel Bayeu
architect, Latin Catholic monk
- Antonio Felice Zondadari
Catholic deacon, archbishop
- Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
sovereign
- Jean-Jacques Paulet
mycologist, physician
- Peter Christian Abildgaard
malacologist, botanist
- András Dugonics
playwright, university teacher