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Born in 1742

75 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar

    monarch, head of state

    1742–1797 · aged 55

    March 14 · 1742

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  2. Nathanael Greene

    military officer

    1742–1786 · aged 43

    August 7 · 1742

    Source: SNAC

  3. Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher

    military commander, farmer

    1742–1819 · aged 76

    December 16 · 1742

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  4. Yemelyan Pugachev

    politician, military personnel

    1742–1775

    1742

    Source: MAK

  5. Pius VII

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1742–1823 · aged 81

    August 14 · 1742

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  6. Joseph Brant

    soldier, captain

    1742–1807

    1742

    No external source identified

  7. James Wilson

    politician, judge

    1742–1798 · aged 55

    September 14 · 1742

    Source: SNAC

  8. Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen

    aristocrat

    1742–1798 · aged 56

    May 13 · 1742

    Source: FemBio database

  9. Carl Wilhelm Scheele

    pharmacist, chemist

    Date disputed

    December 9 · 1742

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  10. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

    philosopher, physicist

    1742–1799 · aged 56

    July 1 · 1742

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  11. Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville

    jurist, politician

    1742–1811 · aged 69

    April 28 · 1742

    Source: BnF authorities

  12. Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland

    politician, military officer

    1742–1817 · aged 74

    August 14 · 1742

    Source: The Peerage

  13. Dositej Obradović

    linguist, writer

    1742–1811 · aged 69

    February 17 · 1742

    Source: British Museum person-institution thesaurus

  14. Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

    politician, military personnel

    1742–1819 · aged 77

    December 8 · 1742

    Source: Léonore database

  15. Arthur Middleton

    politician

    1742–1787 · aged 44

    June 26 · 1742

    Source: Find a Grave

  16. Philip Astley

    circus performer, theatre manager

    1742–1814 · aged 72

    January 8 · 1742

    Source: SNAC

  17. William Hooper

    politician, judge

    1742–1790 · aged 48

    June 28 · 1742

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  18. Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn

    Date disputed

    January 24 · 1742

    Source: The Peerage

  19. Martha Ray

    singer

    1742–1779

    1742

    Source: SNAC

  20. James Rennell

    oceanographer, geographer

    1742–1830 · aged 87

    December 3 · 1742

    Source: SNAC

  21. Richard Cosway

    painter

    1742–1821 · aged 78

    November 5 · 1742

    Source: SNAC

  22. Charlotte von Stein

    writer, lady-in-waiting

    1742–1827

    December 25 · 1742

    Source: SNAC

  23. Félix de Azara

    traveler, anthropologist

    Date disputed

    May 18 · 1742

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  24. Tadeusz Rejtan

    politician

    1742–1780 · aged 37

    August 20 · 1742

    Source: Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny

  25. Duke Ernest Gottlob of Mecklenburg

    Military Governor

    1742–1814 · aged 71

    August 27 · 1742

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  26. James Gandon

    architect, watercolorist

    1742–1823 · aged 81

    February 20 · 1742

    Source: RKDartists

  27. José de Iturrigaray

    politician, military personnel

    1742–1815 · aged 73

    June 27 · 1742

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  28. Thomas Jones

    painter, artist

    Date disputed

    September 26 · 1742

    Source: SNAC

  29. Nicolas Leblanc

    discoverer, surgeon

    1742–1806 · aged 63

    December 6 · 1742

    Source: GeneaStar

  30. Joseph Dombey

    scientific collector, naturalist

    1742–1794 · aged 52

    February 20 · 1742

    No external source identified

  31. Ignaz von Born

    naturalist, satirist

    1742–1791 · aged 48

    December 26 · 1742

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  32. Anne Hunter

    poet, writer

    1742–1821 · aged 78

    March 13 · 1742

    Source: imslp.org

  33. Charles-François Dupuis

    philosopher, politician

    1742–1809 · aged 66

    October 26 · 1742

    Source: Open Library

  34. John Tayler

    governor, politician

    1742–1829 · aged 86

    July 4 · 1742

    Source: Find a Grave

  35. Franciszka Corvin-Krasińska

    aristocrat

    1742–1796 · aged 54

    March 19 · 1742

    No external source identified

  36. François Laurent d'Arlandes

    soldier, balloonist

    1742–1809

    1742

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  37. Roman Hoffstetter

    composer

    1742–1815 · aged 73

    April 4 · 1742

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  38. Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard

    teacher of the deaf, writer

    1742–1822 · aged 79

    September 20 · 1742

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  39. Johan Herman Wessel

    translator, poet

    1742–1785 · aged 43

    October 6 · 1742

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  40. Jean Baptiste Treilhard

    politician, jurist

    1742–1810

    January 3 · 1742

    Source: Sycomore

  41. Jean Senebier

    plant physiologist, naturalist

    1742–1809 · aged 67

    May 25 · 1742

    Source: Historical Dictionary of Switzerland

  42. Christian Garve

    university teacher, translator

    1742–1798 · aged 56

    January 7 · 1742

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  43. Ozias Humphry

    painter

    1742–1810 · aged 67

    September 8 · 1742

    Source: Humphry, Ozias

  44. Antonio José Amar y Borbón

    military personnel

    1742–1826

    1742

    No external source identified

  45. Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart

    botanical collector, mycologist

    1742–1795 · aged 52

    November 4 · 1742

    Source: Base biographique

  46. George Chalmers

    statistician, historian

    1742–1825

    1742

    Source: MAK

  47. Anders Jahan Retzius

    botanical collector, mineralogist

    Date disputed

    October 3 · 1742

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  48. Vasily Pashkevich

    singer, musician

    1742–1797

    1742

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  49. Jean Dauberval

    dancer, ballet master

    1742–1806 · aged 63

    August 19 · 1742

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  50. Johann Christoph Brotze

    ethnologist, teacher

    1742–1823 · aged 80

    September 12 · 1742

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  51. William Pars

    painter, artist

    1742–1782

    February 28 · 1742

    Source: Pars, William

  52. Friedrich von Wurmb

    botanist, naturalist

    1742–1781

    July 2 · 1742

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  53. August Gottlieb Richter

    internist, ophthalmologist

    1742–1812 · aged 70

    April 13 · 1742

    Source: BnF authorities

  54. José Mariano de Conceição Vellozo

    religious, botanical collector

    1742–1811

    1742

    Source: author citation in botany and mycology

  55. Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper

    lepidopterist, anthropologist

    1742–1810 · aged 68

    June 2 · 1742

    No external source identified

  56. Antoine-Adrien Lamourette

    politician, Catholic priest

    1742–1794 · aged 51

    May 31 · 1742

    Source: SNAC

  57. Antoine Portal

    physician, professor

    1742–1832 · aged 90

    January 5 · 1742

    Source: Base biographique

  58. Giocondo Albertolli

    sculptor, decorator

    1742–1839 · aged 97

    July 24 · 1742

    Source: SIKART

  59. Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld

    university teacher, naturalist

    1742–1792 · aged 50

    February 16 · 1742

    Source: deutsche-biographie.de

  60. Michał Jerzy Mniszech

    diplomat, politician

    Date disputed

    1742

    No external source identified

  61. Antonio de Olaguer y Feliú

    politician, military personnel

    1742–1813

    October 14 · 1742

    No external source identified

  62. Alexander Ablesimov

    poet, playwright

    1742–1783

    September 7 · 1742

    Source: Concise Literary Encyclopedia

  63. Marie Allard

    actor, ballet dancer

    1742–1802 · aged 59

    August 14 · 1742

    Source: BnF authorities

  64. Alvarenga Peixoto

    poet, writer

    1742–1792

    1742

    Source: biografia.ahistoria.com.br

  65. José Manuel de Ezpeleta, 1st Count of Ezpeleta de Beire

    military personnel, politician

    1742–1823 · aged 81

    January 24 · 1742

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  66. Maria Carolina Wolf

    composer, singer

    1742–1820

    1742

    Source: Répertoire International des Sources Musicales

  67. Bon-Joseph Dacier

    politician, writer

    1742–1833 · aged 90

    April 1 · 1742

    Source: La France savante

  68. Antonio de Capmany y Montpalau

    historian, philologist

    1742–1813 · aged 70

    November 24 · 1742

    Source: BnF authorities

  69. Friedrich von Hahn

    philosopher, astronomer

    1742–1805 · aged 63

    July 27 · 1742

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  70. Thomas Hutchins

    physician, naturalist

    1742–1790

    1742

    Source: BnF authorities

  71. Joseph Philippe de Clairville

    entomologist, botanist

    1742–1830

    1742

    Source: BnF authorities

  72. Mihály Bakos

    poet, translator

    1742–1803

    1742

    Source: Slovenska biografija

  73. Ignacio Jordan de Asso del Rio

    legal historian, jurist

    1742–1814 · aged 71

    June 4 · 1742

    Source: Great Aragonese Encyclopedia

  74. Gregorio Ferro

    painter

    1742–1812 · aged 69

    December 24 · 1742

    Source: BnF authorities

  75. Charles Albert II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst

    aristocrat

    1742–1796 · aged 54

    February 21 · 1742

    No external source identified

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