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Born in 1744

94 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

    consort, artist

    1744–1818 · aged 74

    May 19 · 1744

    Source: The Peerage

  2. Abigail Adams

    writer, politician

    1744–1818 · aged 73

    November 22 · 1744

    Source: Find a Grave

  3. Mayer Amschel Rothschild

    merchant, banker

    Date disputed

    February 23 · 1744

    Source: BnF authorities

  4. Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia

    monarch

    1744–1797 · aged 53

    September 25 · 1744

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  5. Elbridge Gerry

    diplomat, politician

    1744–1814 · aged 70

    July 17 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  6. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

    paleontologist, military officer

    1744–1829 · aged 85

    August 1 · 1744

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  7. Johann Gottfried Herder

    theologian, opinion journalist

    1744–1803 · aged 59

    August 25 · 1744

    Source: Concise Literary Encyclopedia

  8. Elizabeth Freeman

    midwife, healer

    1744–1829

    1744

    Source: SNAC

  9. Thomas Mifflin

    military officer, major general

    1744–1800 · aged 56

    January 10 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  10. Prince Karl of Hesse-Kassel

    military personnel, autobiographer

    1744–1836 · aged 91

    December 19 · 1744

    Source: The Peerage

  11. Samuel Nicholas

    military officer

    1744–1790

    1744

    Source: navsource.org

  12. Karl Theodor von Dalberg

    writer, Catholic bishop

    1744–1817 · aged 73

    February 8 · 1744

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  13. James McGill

    merchant, politician

    1744–1813 · aged 69

    October 6 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  14. Micaela Bastidas

    revolutionary, indigenous leader

    1744–1781 · aged 36

    June 23 · 1744

    Source: egecperu.pe

  15. Pierce Butler

    military officer, farmer

    1744–1822 · aged 77

    July 11 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  16. Marianna Martines

    pianist, singer

    1744–1812 · aged 68

    May 4 · 1744

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  17. Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort

    politician, aristocrat

    1744–1803 · aged 58

    October 16 · 1744

    Source: The Peerage

  18. Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras

    military personnel

    1744–1790 · aged 45

    March 26 · 1744

    Source: BnF authorities

  19. Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim

    large estate owner, warrior monk

    1744–1805 · aged 60

    November 9 · 1744

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  20. William Cornwallis

    politician, military officer

    1744–1819 · aged 75

    February 10 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  21. Pierre Méchain

    physicist, engineer

    1744–1804 · aged 60

    August 16 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  22. Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos

    politician, lawyer

    1744–1811 · aged 67

    January 5 · 1744

    Source: BnF authorities

  23. Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake

    politician, military personnel

    1744–1808 · aged 63

    July 27 · 1744

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  24. Infanta Maria Josefa of Spain

    aristocrat

    1744–1801 · aged 57

    July 6 · 1744

    Source: The Peerage

  25. Mary Moser

    botanical illustrator, painter

    1744–1819 · aged 74

    October 27 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  26. William Hodges

    artist, painter

    1744–1797

    October 28 · 1744

    Source: RKDartists

  27. Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben

    physician, physicist

    1744–1777

    June 22 · 1744

    Source: Base biographique

  28. John Gabriel Stedman

    slave hunter, military personnel

    1744–1797 · aged 52

    April 4 · 1744

    No external source identified

  29. Anne Vallayer-Coster

    painter, artist

    1744–1818 · aged 73

    December 21 · 1744

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  30. John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute

    diplomat, politician

    1744–1814 · aged 70

    June 30 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  31. Fabrizio Ruffo

    Catholic priest, politician

    1744–1827 · aged 83

    September 16 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  32. Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra

    seafarer, explorer

    1744–1794 · aged 49

    May 22 · 1744

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  33. Richard Lovell Edgeworth

    politician, businessperson

    1744–1817 · aged 73

    May 31 · 1744

    Source: Dictionary of Irish Biography

  34. Johann von Ewald

    soldier, major general

    Date disputed

    March 31 · 1744

    Source: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon, 3rd edition

  35. Giacomo Quarenghi

    architect, painter

    Date disputed

    September 19 · 1744

    Source: Q25858917

  36. Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge

    politician

    1744–1812 · aged 67

    June 29 · 1744

    No external source identified

  37. Nikolay Novikov

    bookseller, philanthropist

    1744–1818 · aged 74

    May 8 · 1744

    Source: Great Russian Encyclopedia

  38. Edward Hand

    medical officer, military officer

    1744–1802

    December 31 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  39. John Jeffries

    physicist, physician

    1744–1819 · aged 75

    February 5 · 1744

    Source: BnF authorities

  40. Eise Eisinga

    carder, amateur astronomer

    1744–1828 · aged 84

    February 21 · 1744

    Source: Biografisch Portaal

  41. Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł

    poet

    Date disputed

    September 29 · 1744

    Source: Urzędnicy Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego. Spisy, t. I, Województwo wileńskie XIV‒X…

  42. Semyon Vorontsov

    politician, diplomat

    1744–1832 · aged 87

    June 15 · 1744

    No external source identified

  43. Friederike Auguste Sophie of Anhalt-Bernburg

    aristocrat

    1744–1827 · aged 82

    August 28 · 1744

    Source: CERL Thesaurus

  44. Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave

    ornithologist, politician

    Date disputed

    May 19 · 1744

    No external source identified

  45. Giulio Maria della Somaglia

    Catholic bishop, diplomat

    1744–1830 · aged 85

    July 29 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  46. David Allan

    painter

    1744–1796 · aged 52

    February 13 · 1744

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  47. Johann III Bernoulli

    jurist, geographer

    1744–1807 · aged 62

    November 4 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  48. Alured Clarke

    civil servant, military personnel

    1744–1832 · aged 87

    November 24 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  49. Sarah Sophia Banks

    musician, botanist

    1744–1818 · aged 73

    October 28 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  50. Nathalie Golitsyn (Chernysheva)

    lady-in-waiting

    1744–1837 · aged 93

    January 28 · 1744

    No external source identified

  51. Tomás António Gonzaga

    writer, political activist

    1744–1810

    August 11 · 1744

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  52. Princess Charlotte Amalie Wilhelmine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön

    aristocrat

    1744–1770 · aged 26

    April 23 · 1744

    Source: CERL Thesaurus

  53. John Walker

    politician, lawyer

    1744–1809 · aged 65

    February 13 · 1744

    Source: GeneaStar

  54. Wilhelm Mauritz Klingspor

    politician, general field marshal

    1744–1814 · aged 69

    December 7 · 1744

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  55. Joshua Clayton

    physician, governor

    1744–1798 · aged 54

    July 20 · 1744

    Source: Find a Grave

  56. Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin

    university teacher, pteridologist

    1744–1774 · aged 30

    July 4 · 1744

    Source: BnF authorities

  57. Conrad Moench

    botanist, naturalist

    1744–1805 · aged 60

    August 15 · 1744

    Source: Marburger Professorenkatalog

  58. Aleksei Musin-Pushkin

    linguist, politician

    1744–1817 · aged 72

    March 27 · 1744

    Source: Q25881147

  59. Claude Fauchet

    Catholic priest, revolutionary

    1744–1793 · aged 49

    September 22 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  60. Friedrich Ludwig Schröder

    actor, playwright

    1744–1816 · aged 71

    November 3 · 1744

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  61. Jean-François Pierre Peyron

    painter, printmaker

    1744–1814 · aged 69

    December 15 · 1744

    Source: RKDartists

  62. Christian Gotthilf Salzmann

    Lutheran theologian, writer

    1744–1811 · aged 67

    June 1 · 1744

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  63. Alessandro Mattei

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1744–1820 · aged 76

    February 20 · 1744

    Source: SNAC

  64. Gaetano Brunetti

    composer, violinist

    1744–1798

    1744

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  65. Charles Dugua

    politician, official

    1744–1802 · aged 58

    March 1 · 1744

    Source: BnF authorities

  66. Ippolit Bogdanovich

    writer, linguist

    1744–1803 · aged 59

    January 3 · 1744

    Source: Concise Literary Encyclopedia

  67. Christian August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

    military personnel, art collector

    1744–1798 · aged 53

    December 6 · 1744

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  68. Otto Fabricius

    scientific collector, missionary

    1744–1822 · aged 78

    March 6 · 1744

    Source: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon

  69. François-Guillaume Ménageot

    painter

    1744–1816 · aged 72

    July 9 · 1744

    Source: RKDartists

  70. Victor Amadeus of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym

    military officer

    1744–1790

    May 9 · 1744

    No external source identified

  71. Sergey Vyazmitinov

    politician

    Date disputed

    October 18 · 1744

    No external source identified

  72. Jan van Os

    painter, draftsperson

    1744–1808 · aged 63

    February 23 · 1744

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  73. Henrietta Catherine Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau

    aristocrat

    1744–1799 · aged 55

    June 5 · 1744

    Source: The Peerage

  74. Peter Anker

    painter, diplomat

    1744–1832 · aged 87

    July 31 · 1744

    Source: Kunstindeks Danmark

  75. Wybrand Hendricks

    copyist, watercolorist

    1744–1831 · aged 86

    June 24 · 1744

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  76. Ramón Bayeu

    painter

    1744–1793 · aged 48

    December 2 · 1744

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  77. Honda Toshiaki

    political scientist, scholar

    1744–1821

    1744

    Source: opac.vatlib.it

  78. Félix de Avelar Brotero

    botanist, botanical collector

    1744–1828 · aged 83

    November 25 · 1744

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  79. Karl Ludwig von Knebel

    writer, hofmeister

    1744–1834 · aged 89

    November 30 · 1744

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  80. Gotthard Johann von Knorring

    military personnel

    1744–1825 · aged 81

    November 11 · 1744

    Source: Baltisches biografisches Lexikon digital

  81. Picot de La Peyrouse

    ornithologist, entomologist

    1744–1818 · aged 73

    October 20 · 1744

    Source: Biographies of the Entomologists of the World

  82. Johann Andreas Naumann

    ornithologist, farmer

    1744–1826 · aged 82

    April 13 · 1744

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  83. Heinrich Christian Boie

    journalist, poet

    1744–1806 · aged 61

    July 19 · 1744

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  84. Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell

    university teacher, chemist

    Date disputed

    January 21 · 1744

    Source: www.accademiadellescienze.it

  85. Frederick III, Prince of Salm-Kyrburg

    military personnel

    1744–1794 · aged 50

    May 3 · 1744

    No external source identified

  86. Samuel Gustaf Hermelin

    cartographer, businessperson

    1744–1820 · aged 75

    April 4 · 1744

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  87. Francesco Maria Pignatelli

    Catholic priest

    1744–1815 · aged 71

    February 19 · 1744

    Source: info.roma.it

  88. Franz Kaspar Lieblein

    university teacher, pharmacist

    1744–1810 · aged 65

    September 15 · 1744

    No external source identified

  89. James Sullivan

    judge, lawyer

    1744–1808 · aged 64

    April 22 · 1744

    Source: Find a Grave

  90. Werner Abrahamson

    archaeologist, philologist

    1744–1812 · aged 68

    April 10 · 1744

    Source: BnF authorities

  91. Ferdinando Maria Saluzzo

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1744–1816 · aged 71

    November 20 · 1744

    No external source identified

  92. Nicola Riganti

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1744–1822 · aged 78

    March 24 · 1744

    No external source identified

  93. Benedetto Naro

    prelate

    1744–1832 · aged 88

    July 26 · 1744

    No external source identified

  94. Michelangelo Luchi

    religious

    Date disputed

    April 20 · 1744

    No external source identified

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