ON THIS DAY
Born in 1748
90 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Jacques-Louis David
painter, architectural drafter
- Charles IV of Spain
sovereign
- Adam Weishaupt
philosopher, canon law jurist
- Martha Jefferson
politician
- Charles XIII of Sweden
monarch
- Olympe de Gouges
philosopher, journalist
- William V, Prince of Orange
aristocrat, politician
- William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
aristocrat, politician
- Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
diplomat, cleric
- Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
admiral, politician
- Asaf-ud-Daula
politician, patron of the arts
- Johann Friedrich Gmelin
mineralogist, biologist
- Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch
military personnel, politician
- John Playfair
naturalist, mathematician
- Adamantios Korais
translator, lexicographer
- Samuel Osgood
politician
- Rosalie Duthé
courtesan, dancer
- Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
university teacher, botanical collector
- Joseph Bramah
mechanic, civil engineer
- Claude Louis Berthollet
politician, chemist
- Louis Pierre Vieillot
ornithologist, biologist
- Christian Gottlob Neefe
music arranger, composer
- William Few
politician, judge
- Elias Hicks
writer, theologian
- Luther Martin
politician, lawyer
- Thomas Day
poet, writer
- Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle
diplomat, politician
- Javad Khan
sovereign
- John Marshall
explorer
- Hugh Henry Brackenridge
judge, lawyer
- Johann Sebastian Bach
artist, draftsperson
- Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini
cartographer, astronomer
- James Henry Craig
military personnel
- Pierre Sonnerat
botanist, draftsperson
- Johann Kollowrat
military officer
- William Chalmers
merchant
- Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois
military officer, politician
- Micaela Villegas (La Perricholi)
singer, stage actor
- Francesco Mario Pagano
philosopher, jurist
- Charles Blagden
scientist, chemist
- Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald
inventor, businessperson
- Félix Vicq-d'Azyr
physician, zoologist
- Paulinus of St. Bartholomew
missionary, historian
- Benjamin Goodhue
politician, merchant
- Princess Caroline of Waldeck and Pyrmont
aristocrat
- Christian Ehrenfried Weigel
physician, pharmacologist
- Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec
Officer of the French Navy, explorer
- Franz Regis Clet
missionary, Catholic priest
- William Coxe
traveler, historian
- Marie-Anne Collot
artist, sculptor
- Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty
poet, writer
- Henry Conwell
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Maximilian Stadler
composer, music historian
- Nicolas Chambon
military physician, physician
- Ayşe Adilşah Kadın
slave
- Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow
politician, merchant
- Elias Stein
chess player
- Adair Crawford
physician, physicist
- Georg Michael Telemann
organist, composer
- Augustin Dupré
medalist
- David Gilly
architect
- Joseph Schuster
composer
- Louis-François de Bausset
Catholic theologian, politician
- Ferdinand Franz Wallraf
architect, theologian
- Jean-François de Bourgoing
translator, geographer
- Luigi Fortis
Catholic theologian, Catholic priest
- Pierre-Louis Ginguené
literary historian, journalist
- Johann Dominicus Fiorillo
painter, art historian
- Ludwik Tyszkiewicz
diplomat
- Jonas Carlsson Dryander
botanist, librarian
- Christian of Stolberg-Stolberg
writer, poet
- Leopold Friedrich Günther von Goeckingk
beamter, opinion journalist
- Giulio Gabrielli the Younger
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Giovanni Furno
music educator, composer
- Henri François Anne de Roussel
botanist, mycologist
- Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
aristocrat
- Daniel Smith
politician
- Christian Wilhelm Kindleben
preacher, theologian