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Born in 1754
115 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Louis XVI of France
monarch, ruler
- Paul I of Russia
sovereign
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Banastre Tarleton
politician, military personnel
- William Bligh
military officer, sailor
- Uthman Dan Fodio
poet, writer
- John Laurens
politician
- Benjamin Tallmadge
banker, politician
- Seraphim of Sarov
monk, Eastern Orthodox monk
- Pierre Charles L’Enfant
military engineer, architect
- Frederick I of Württemberg
aristocrat, politician
- Jacques Pierre Brissot
lawyer, diplomat
- Manon Roland
writer, politician
- Georg Forster
revolutionary, pteridologist
- Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este
aristocrat
- Mary Ludwig Hays
military personnel
- William Murdoch
engineer, chemist
- Eve Frank
religious leader, mystic
- Salawat Yulayev
rebel, military personnel
- Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey
military personnel, military officer
- Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier
balloonist, physicist
- Louis de Bonald
politician, essayist
- Abraham Baldwin
jurist, lawyer
- Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt
aristocrat
- Thomas Bowdler
literary editor, chess player
- Grace Elliott
writer, autobiographer
- Gilbert Imlay
writer, diplomat
- George Crabbe
entomologist, parson
- Antoine Destutt de Tracy
philosopher, military personnel
- Joseph Joubert
essayist, philosopher
- Nicolas Baudin
botanical collector, explorer
- Salomon Maimon
philosopher
- Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester
politician
- Joseph Proust
pharmacist, chemist
- Colin Mackenzie
soldier, mathematician
- Joel Barlow
writer, diplomat
- Catherine-Dominique Pérignon
diplomat, military officer
- Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland
art collector, politician
- Pavel Tsitsianov
politician, military personnel
- Al-Jabarti
historian, theologian
- Benjamin Hawkins
politician
- Jean-Baptiste Regnault
painter
- Nikolay Rumyantsev
historian, count
- John Lansing Jr.
lawyer, politician
- Franz Anton Hoffmeister
composer, music publisher
- Francisco Félix de Sousa
slave trader, merchant
- Claude François de Malet
military personnel, military officer
- Jurij Vega
military personnel, astronomer
- Archibald Menzies
botanical collector, surgeon
- Andrea Appiani
sculptor, painter
- Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron
journalist, politician
- Pedro Romero Martínez
bullfighter, matador
- Alessandro Malaspina of Mulazzo
explorer, discoverer
- Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
lawyer, magistrate
- Francisco Javier Venegas
military personnel
- John Caradja
diplomat
- Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul
military personnel, politician
- Pierre-François Percy
physician, politician
- Frédéric-César de La Harpe
politician, educator
- Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet
farmer, politician
- Franz Xaver von Zach
astronomer
- Tekle Haymanot II
politician
- Stanisław Poniatowski
diplomat, patron of the arts
- Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, 1st Count of Venadito
naval officer
- Vicente Martín y Soler
choreographer, composer
- Vincenzo Monti
poet, writer
- Isaac René Guy le Chapelier
lawyer, politician
- Juan José Elhuyar
discoverer, mineralogist
- Jean-Antoine Marbot
politician, military officer
- Marie-Victoire Lemoine
painter
- Ferenc Széchényi
politician
- Charles William, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
duke, aristocrat
- Luigi Marchesi
composer, singer
- Pierre Louis Roederer
economist, diplomat
- Stephen R. Bradley
lawyer, politician
- Alexandra von Engelhardt
lady-in-waiting
- Peter von Winter
conductor, composer
- Anna Maria Lenngren
salonnière, writer
- Ernst von Rüchel
military commander, military officer
- Ivan Martos
artist, art educator
- Elisa von der Recke
poet, hymnwriter
- Rafael de Sobremonte, 3rd Marquis of Sobremonte
politician, military personnel
- William Marsden
explorer, botanist
- Isaac Tichenor
judge, lawyer
- Gheorghe Șincai
linguist, philologist
- Petru Maior
linguist, romanist
- Asmus Jacob Carstens
painter, draftsperson
- Alexander Shishkov
linguist, politician
- Augusta von Fersen
statsfru, lady-in-waiting
- Hipólito Ruiz López
botanical collector, discoverer
- Jean Baptiste Meusnier
military personnel, military flight engineer
- Louis Claude Richard
biologist, botanist
- Miguel de Azcuénaga
politician, military personnel
- Anna Rajecka
painter
- Juan Meléndez Valdés
writer, politician
- Jean Baptiste, marquis de Traversay
military personnel, admiral
- Alexandros II Mavrocordato
dragoman
- José Antonio Pavón
botanist, scientific collector
- Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński
patron of the arts, literary historian
- Abraham Niclas Edelcrantz
physicist, politician
- António de Araújo e Azevedo, 1st Count of Barca
botanist, translator
- François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat
architect, military officer
- August Hermann Niemeyer
independent publisher, hymnwriter
- Michèl Yost
music educator, musician
- Vittorio Fossombroni
naturalist, engineer
- Gilles-Louis Chrétien
portraitist, cellist
- Pierre-François Chabaneau
chemist, university teacher
- Francesco Bertazzoli
Catholic priest, Latin Catholic bishop
- Pierre André Pourret
botanist, Catholic priest
- Morgan Lewis
governor, judge
- Attilio Zuccagni
physician, zoologist