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Born in 1749

89 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    zoologist, politician

    1749–1832 · aged 82

    August 28 · 1749

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  2. Edward Jenner

    naturalist, biologist

    1749–1823 · aged 73

    May 17 · 1749

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  3. Pierre-Simon Laplace

    philosopher, writer

    1749–1827

    March 23 · 1749

    Source: www.accademiadellescienze.it

  4. Christian VII of Denmark

    monarch, sovereign

    1749–1808 · aged 59

    January 29 · 1749

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  5. Marie Thérèse of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe

    lady-in-waiting

    1749–1792 · aged 42

    September 8 · 1749

    Source: Find a Grave

  6. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

    orator, politician

    1749–1791 · aged 42

    March 9 · 1749

    Source: Sycomore

  7. Charles James Fox

    historian, abolitionist

    Date disputed

    January 24 · 1749

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  8. Yolande de Polastron

    lady-in-waiting

    1749–1793 · aged 44

    September 8 · 1749

    Source: GeneaStar

  9. Lorenzo Da Ponte

    songwriter, playwright

    1749–1838 · aged 89

    March 10 · 1749

    Source: Česká divadelní encyklopedie

  10. Edward Rutledge

    governor, politician

    1749–1800 · aged 50

    November 23 · 1749

    Source: GeneaStar

  11. Nicolas Appert

    inventor, confectioner

    1749–1841 · aged 91

    November 17 · 1749

    Source: Departmental archives of Marne

  12. Jahan Shah IV

    1749–1790

    1749

    No external source identified

  13. Conrad Heyer

    soldier, farmer

    1749–1856 · aged 106

    April 10 · 1749

    No external source identified

  14. William Blount

    politician

    1749–1800 · aged 50

    March 26 · 1749

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  15. Domenico Cimarosa

    composer

    1749–1801 · aged 51

    December 17 · 1749

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  16. Vittorio Alfieri

    translator, aristocrat

    1749–1803 · aged 54

    January 16 · 1749

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  17. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

    painter, visual artist

    1749–1803 · aged 54

    April 11 · 1749

    Source: Labille-Guiard [née Labille], Adélaïde

  18. Princess Louisa of Great Britain

    aristocrat

    1749–1768 · aged 19

    March 19 · 1749

    No external source identified

  19. Levi Lincoln Sr.

    governor, lawyer

    1749–1820 · aged 70

    May 15 · 1749

    Source: Find a Grave

  20. Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois

    playwright, actor

    1749–1796

    June 19 · 1749

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  21. Charlotte Turner Smith

    novelist, poet

    1749–1806 · aged 57

    May 4 · 1749

    Source: Orlando

  22. Alexander Radishchev

    writer, philosopher

    1749–1802 · aged 53

    August 31 · 1749

    Source: Concise Literary Encyclopedia

  23. Petar I Petrović-Njegoš

    historian, Eastern Orthodox priest

    1749–1830

    1749

    No external source identified

  24. Daniel Rutherford

    physicist, botanist

    1749–1819

    November 3 · 1749

    Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  25. Cyrus Griffin

    lawyer, judge

    1749–1810 · aged 61

    July 16 · 1749

    No external source identified

  26. Thomas Lynch

    politician

    1749–1779

    August 5 · 1749

    Source: GeneaStar

  27. Nicodemus the Hagiorite

    Eastern Orthodox monk, monk

    1749–1809

    1749

    Source: AlKindi

  28. Abraham Gottlob Werner

    mineralogist, jurisprudence

    1749–1817 · aged 67

    September 25 · 1749

    Source: Great Russian Encyclopedia

  29. Jared Ingersoll

    politician, jurist

    1749–1822 · aged 73

    October 24 · 1749

    Source: SNAC

  30. John Stevens

    lawyer, engineer

    1749–1838

    June 26 · 1749

    Source: SNAC

  31. Charles Wilkins

    writer, orientalist

    1749–1836

    1749

    Source: Alvin

  32. Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre

    historian, historian of science

    1749–1822 · aged 72

    September 19 · 1749

    Source: La France savante

  33. Chaim of Vałožyn

    philosopher, theologian

    1749–1821 · aged 72

    May 24 · 1749

    No external source identified

  34. James Garrard

    politician, pastor

    1749–1822 · aged 73

    January 14 · 1749

    Source: SNAC

  35. Xah Murad

    1749–1800

    1749

    No external source identified

  36. William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster

    poet, politician

    1749–1804 · aged 55

    March 13 · 1749

    Source: Dictionary of Irish Biography

  37. Jacques Mallet du Pan

    journalist

    1749–1800 · aged 50

    November 5 · 1749

    No external source identified

  38. Thomas Daniell

    printmaker, painter

    1749–1840

    1749

    Source: The Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450–1950

  39. David Ramsay

    writer, politician

    1749–1815 · aged 66

    April 2 · 1749

    Source: SNAC

  40. Georg Joseph Vogler

    musicologist, music theorist

    1749–1814 · aged 64

    June 15 · 1749

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  41. François Tourte

    violin maker, musical instrument maker

    1749–1835

    1749

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  42. Johann Nikolaus Forkel

    music director, musicographer

    1749–1818 · aged 69

    February 22 · 1749

    Source: SNAC

  43. Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein

    diplomat

    1749–1802 · aged 52

    October 25 · 1749

    Source: Swedish church birth records

  44. Antonín Kraft

    music educator, cellist

    1749–1820 · aged 70

    December 30 · 1749

    Source: michaelorenz.blogspot.co.il

  45. James Peale

    painter

    1749–1831

    1749

    Source: RKDartists

  46. Painter Müller

    painter, playwright

    1749–1825 · aged 76

    January 13 · 1749

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  47. Dominique Joseph Garat

    writer, journalist

    1749–1833 · aged 84

    September 8 · 1749

    Source: La France savante

  48. Augusta Dorothea of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

    politician

    1749–1810

    October 2 · 1749

    Source: The Peerage

  49. Adolf Fredrik Munck

    aristocrat

    1749–1831 · aged 82

    April 29 · 1749

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  50. Peder Anker

    proprietær, politician

    1749–1824

    December 8 · 1749

    Source: Q23297102

  51. Jean-Louis Duport

    musician, composer

    1749–1819 · aged 69

    October 4 · 1749

    Source: SNAC

  52. John Sims

    taxonomist, physician

    1749–1831 · aged 81

    October 13 · 1749

    No external source identified

  53. Christian August Lorentzen

    painter, university teacher

    1749–1828 · aged 78

    August 10 · 1749

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  54. Yakov Sannikov

    explorer

    1749–1825

    1749

    No external source identified

  55. Gerasim Lebedev

    linguist, cellist

    1749–1817

    1749

    Source: Dictionary of Russian Writers of XVIII century. Volume II

  56. Joseph Strutt

    painter, author

    1749–1802 · aged 52

    October 27 · 1749

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  57. Martin Vahl

    botanical collector, bryologist

    1749–1804 · aged 55

    October 10 · 1749

    Source: Norsk biografisk leksikon

  58. Maciej Radziwiłł

    librettist, politician

    1749–1800 · aged 50

    November 10 · 1749

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

  59. Ferdinand von Trauttmansdorff

    minister, politician

    Date disputed

    January 12 · 1749

    Source: Trauttmannsdorff-Weinsberg, Ferdinand Fürst (BLKÖ)

  60. Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr

    geologist, naturalist

    1749–1821 · aged 71

    June 16 · 1749

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  61. Justus Perthes

    bookseller, publisher

    1749–1816

    September 11 · 1749

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  62. Francisco Javier de Lizana y Beaumont

    politician, Catholic priest

    1749–1811

    July 12 · 1749

    No external source identified

  63. Tiberius Cavallo

    physicist

    1749–1809 · aged 60

    March 30 · 1749

    Source: SNAC

  64. Tadeusz Brzozowski

    religious leader, Catholic priest

    1749–1820 · aged 70

    October 21 · 1749

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  65. Heinrich Christoph Koch

    musicologist, Kammermusiker

    1749–1816 · aged 66

    October 10 · 1749

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  66. Lorenz Leopold Haschka

    writer, poet

    1749–1827 · aged 77

    September 1 · 1749

    Source: BnF authorities

  67. Mariano Álvarez de Castro

    military personnel, military officer

    1749–1810 · aged 60

    September 8 · 1749

    Source: SNAC

  68. Jean-Frédéric Edelmann

    harpsichordist, pianist

    1749–1794 · aged 45

    May 5 · 1749

    Source: Musicalics

  69. Gertrud Elisabeth Mara

    opera singer

    1749–1833 · aged 83

    February 23 · 1749

    Source: BnF authorities

  70. Abraham Bennet

    physicist

    Date disputed

    December 20 · 1749

    No external source identified

  71. Samuel Vince

    mathematician, astronomer

    1749–1821 · aged 72

    April 6 · 1749

    No external source identified

  72. Princess Casimire of Anhalt-Dessau

    aristocrat

    1749–1778 · aged 29

    January 19 · 1749

    Source: The Peerage

  73. Eric Paulsen

    landscape painter, painter

    Date disputed

    October 2 · 1749

    Source: RKDartists

  74. Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez

    art critic, writer

    1749–1829 · aged 80

    September 17 · 1749

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  75. Edvard Storm

    writer, Lutheran pastor

    1749–1794 · aged 45

    August 21 · 1749

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

  76. Josefa Amar y Borbón

    intellectual, writer

    1749–1833 · aged 84

    February 4 · 1749

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  77. Louis-Pierre Deseine

    sculptor

    1749–1822

    1749

    Source: AGORHA

  78. Georg Prochaska

    writer, ophthalmologist

    1749–1820 · aged 71

    April 10 · 1749

    Source: Prochaska, Georg (BLKÖ)

  79. Domenico Alberto Azuni

    jurist, judge

    1749–1827 · aged 77

    August 3 · 1749

    Source: www.accademiadellescienze.it

  80. John Ingleby

    painter

    1749–1808

    1749

    No external source identified

  81. Antonio Doria Pamphili

    Catholic bishop, Catholic deacon

    1749–1821 · aged 71

    March 28 · 1749

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  82. Anne-Antoine-Jules de Clermont-Tonnerre

    Catholic priest, politician

    1749–1830 · aged 81

    January 1 · 1749

    Source: BnF authorities

  83. Marie Le Masson Le Golft

    literary scholar, naturalist

    1749–1826 · aged 76

    October 25 · 1749

    Source: La France savante

  84. Narbuta Biy

    ruler

    1749–1798

    1749

    No external source identified

  85. Cornelis van der Aa

    bookseller, historian

    1749–1815

    October 22 · 1749

    Source: Biografisch Portaal

  86. Pietro Gravina

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1749–1830 · aged 80

    December 16 · 1749

    No external source identified

  87. Christina Chalon

    cartoonist, draftsperson

    Date disputed

    May 25 · 1749

    Source: Online Dictionary of Dutch Women

  88. Camillo Federici

    stage actor, writer

    1749–1802 · aged 53

    April 9 · 1749

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  89. Franz II. Xaver von Salm-Reifferscheidt-Krautheim

    Catholic bishop, Catholic deacon

    1749–1822 · aged 73

    February 1 · 1749

    Source: Integrated Authority File

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