ON THIS DAY
Born in 1745
124 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- John Jay
diplomat, judge
- Alessandro Volta
inventor, chemist
- Casimir Pulaski
soldier, lawyer
- Olaudah Equiano
autobiographer, actor
- Chevalier de Saint-Georges
military personnel, composer
- Anthony Wayne
military officer, soldier
- Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
pioneer, merchant
- Maria Luisa of Spain
politician
- Shneur Zalman of Liadi
rabbi, Posek
- Madhavrao I
minister, politician
- Oliver Ellsworth
jurist, politician
- Timothy Pickering
military personnel, foreign minister
- Fyodor Ushakov
military officer
- Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn
naval officer, aristocrat
- John Sevier
politician
- Hannah More
philanthropist, poet
- Philippe Pinel
psychologist, zoologist
- Şahin Giray
sovereign
- Levin August von Bennigsen
military leader, military officer
- John Barry
military officer, naval officer
- William Paterson
governor, judge
- Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria
aristocrat
- Patriarch Grigorios V of Constantinople
Eastern Orthodox priest, patriarch
- Johan Christian Fabricius
entomologist, zoologist
- Sarah Lennox
aristocrat
- Bodawpaya
king, monarch
- Francis Asbury
diarist, priest
- Jeongsun
politician
- Carl Stamitz
violist, violinist
- Samuel Hearne
traveler, writer
- Isaac Titsingh
writer, diplomat
- Inō Tadataka
geodesist, calligrapher
- Mihrişah Sultan
slave
- Richard Bassett
lawyer, judge
- John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset
cricketer, diplomat
- Denis Fonvizin
translator, writer
- Caleb Strong
governor, lawyer
- William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland
diplomat, sociologist
- Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen
politician, military personnel
- Sydney Parkinson
zoologist, botanist
- Ebrahim Khan Kalantar
mayor, official
- Charles Dibdin
stage actor, composer
- Valentin Haüy
pedagogue, linguist
- Kim Hong-do
painter
- Maksym Berezovsky
composer, opera singer
- Armand Marc, Count of Montmorin
politician, diplomat
- Caspar Wessel
mathematician, cartographer
- Ioannis Varvakis
military personnel, merchant
- Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville
military personnel, politician
- François Barbé-Marbois
diplomat, politician
- Johann Peter Salomon
composer, impresario
- Henry Essex Edgeworth
Catholic missionary, Catholic priest
- Maddalena Laura Sirmen
violinist, musician
- Lindley Murray
linguist, lawyer
- David Brearley
politician, jurist
- Jens Juel
painter
- Charles Henry of Nassau-Siegen
military personnel, explorer
- Sir John Macpherson, 1st Baronet
politician
- Henry Holland
architect
- William Jessop
engineer, civil engineer
- Hung Hei-gun
teacher
- George Atwood
inventor, physicist
- Henry Mackenzie
novelist, poet
- Charles Cameron
draftsperson, court artist
- Menachem Mendel of Rimanov
rabbi, tzadik
- Johann Jakob Griesbach
opinion journalist, Protestant theologian
- Thomas Holcroft
playwright, writer
- Henry James Pye
politician, poet
- Antonio José Cavanilles
Catholic priest, university teacher
- Juan de Ayala
military personnel, explorer
- Vincent Strambi
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Johan Gottlieb Gahn
chemist
- Félix María de Samaniego
politician, writer
- Johann Hieronymus Schröter
Clerical Officer, astronomer
- Samuil Micu-Klein
translator, Bible translator
- Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine
teacher, caricaturist
- Johann Peter Frank
university teacher, physician
- Joseph Boze
painter
- Charles Hall
economist
- Ludwig Fischer
composer, opera singer
- Jonathan Elmer
politician
- Johann Anton Güldenstädt
geographer, naturalist
- Franciszek Smuglewicz
draftsperson, painter
- Gerasim Izmailov
explorer
- Louis of Nassau-Saarbrücken
politician
- Marie-Anne Fragonard
painter
- Georg Druschetzky
publisher, conductor
- James Tytler
surgeon, Christian minister
- Jean-Baptiste Huet
draftsperson, painter
- Ivan Starov
architect, urban planner
- Carl August Ehrensvärd
draftsperson, naval officer
- Johan Nordahl Brun
poet, bishop
- Jean-Joseph Taillasson
painter, art critic
- João de Sousa Carvalho
composer, music educator
- Uragami Gyokudō
musician, poet
- Jean-Antoine Roucher
translator, poet
- Charles Victor de Bonstetten
philosopher, politician
- Juan Bautista Muñoz
historian, philosopher
- Marianne von der Leyen
regent
- Étienne Aubry
visual artist, painter
- Daniel Parker Coke
politician, barrister
- Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis
composer, pianist
- Dominique Villars
lichenologist, university teacher
- Johann Gottfried Koehler
astronomer
- Carl Arnold Kortum
writer, physician
- Jacques Marie Boutet
writer, playwright
- Ivan Khemnitser
writer, translator
- Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
philosopher
- Antonio Despuig y Dameto
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Friedrich Benda
composer, organist
- Semyon Shchedrin
painter
- Nicolas Roze
chapelmaster, librarian
- Franz de Paula Triesnecker
geographer, astronomer
- Gennaro Astarita
composer, conductor
- Nicolas-Étienne Framery
poet, linguist
- Bernhard Christian Otto
university teacher, physician
- Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
physicist, mechanic
- Gregor Tarkovič
Catholic priest, Catholic deacon
- Pietro Antonio Zorzi
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop