ON THIS DAY
Born in 1743
86 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Thomas Jefferson
inventor, philosopher
- Jean-Paul Marat
politician, physician
- Toussaint Louverture
politician, freedom fighter
- Antoine Lavoisier
jurist, physicist
- Madame du Barry
salesperson, modiste
- Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet
writer, political scientist
- Joseph Banks
archaeologist, botanical collector
- Alessandro Cagliostro
alchemist, confidence trickster
- Luigi Boccherini
composer, classical pianist
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
jurist, merchant
- William I, Elector of Hesse
politician, ruler
- William Paley
university teacher, writer
- Martin Heinrich Klaproth
inventor, scientist
- Gavrila Derzhavin
linguist, politician
- Blue Jacket
politician
- Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne
archaeologist, historian
- Yekaterina Dashkova
politician, linguist
- Edmund Cartwright
inventor
- Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
politician
- Carl Peter Thunberg
scientific collector, physician
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld
literary critic, writer
- Johann David Wyss
writer, pastor
- Thomas Stone
farmer, politician
- Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano
aristocrat
- John Fitch
watchmaker, inventor
- Nicolai Abildgaard
painter, university teacher
- Pōmare I
monarch
- Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
writer, translator
- Francis Dana
politician, judge
- Victoire de Rohan
lady-in-waiting
- Elizabeth Willing Powel
wife, socialite
- René Just Haüy
chemist, physicist
- Maha Sura Singhanat
monarch
- Nguyễn Nhạc
monarch
- Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann
zoologist, naturalist
- Marie-Madeleine Guimard
choreographer, dancer
- Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert
military personnel, marshal
- Etta Palm
women's rights activist, writer
- José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa
politician, military officer
- Bruno de Heceta
explorer, military personnel
- Elisabeth Christina von Linné
botanist
- Pavel Potemkin
statesperson, translator
- David Roentgen
artist, cabinetmaker
- Robert Jacob Gordon
naturalist, explorer
- Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne
politician, parson
- Hannah Cowley
playwright, poet
- Lucrezia Aguiari
opera singer
- Joseph-Benoît Suvée
painter, draftsperson
- Johannes Ewald
poet, writer
- Princess Eudoxia Borisovna Yusupova
aristocrat
- Adolph, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
military personnel
- Lucia Galeazzi Galvani
biologist
- Marmaduke Tunstall
ornithologist
- Johann Kaspar Füssli
entomologist, librarian
- Jean-Simon Berthélemy
painter
- François Chopart
surgeon
- Bryan Edwards
plantation owner, politician
- Louis Jean Desprez
scenographer, painter
- Giuseppe Gazzaniga
composer
- Johan Christopher Toll
lieutenant general, soldier
- Samuel Goodenough
Anglican priest, scientific collector
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst
military chaplain, educator
- Jan Frans Vonck
lawyer, editor
- Francis Bianchi
Latin Catholic priest
- Johann Joachim Eschenburg
writer, literary scholar
- Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz
historian, opinion journalist
- Didacus Joseph of Cadiz
regular priest, Catholic theologian
- Jean-Baptiste Rondelet
master builder, textbook writer
- William Hindman
lawyer, politician
- Richard Earlom
printmaker, copper engraver
- Quintin Craufurd
writer, art collector
- Julien Louis Geoffroy
journalist, literary critic
- Georg Christian Unger
architect
- Antonio Cagnoli
diplomat, mathematician
- Ignazio Gaetano Boncompagni-Ludovisi
cardinal of the Roman Curia, Catholic priest
- Ernst Ferdinand Klein
university teacher, judge
- Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann
playwright, theatre manager
- Johann Georg Meusel
biographer, bibliographer
- Antonio Lamberto Rusconi
Catholic deacon, Catholic bishop
- Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft
physicist, astronomer
- Basile Petros IV Avkadian
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop