ON THIS DAY
Born in 1755
117 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Marie Antoinette
consort, aristocrat
- Louis XVIII of France
politician
- John Marshall
politician, writer
- Nathan Hale
spy, military officer
- Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
artist, painter
- Samuel Hahnemann
university teacher, court counsel
- Axel von Fersen the Younger
politician, military personnel
- Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras
salonnière, politician
- Gilbert Stuart
artist, organist
- Rufus King
lawyer, jurist
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
jurist, lawyer
- James Parkinson
paleontologist, botanist
- Sarah Siddons
stage actor
- Gerhard von Scharnhorst
politician, military officer
- Jan Henryk Dąbrowski
military personnel, military officer
- Zamor
page
- Natalia Alexeievna of Russia
politician, salonnière
- Bertrand Barère
journalist, politician
- Jacques Labillardière
zoological collector, botanist
- Georges Couthon
politician, judge
- François Joseph Lefebvre
soldier, military personnel
- Narayanrao Peshwa
politician
- Anton I of Saxony
composer, monarch
- John Flaxman Jr.
designer, poet
- Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Rochambeau
military officer
- Abol Fath Khan
politician
- Vincent Ogé
wholesaler, military officer
- Anacharsis Cloots
politician
- Caterina Cavalieri
composer, singer
- William North
politician
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz
composer, military officer
- Giovanni Battista Viotti
violinist, music interpreter
- Nicolas-Jacques Conté
chemist, balloonist
- Oliver Evans
inventor
- Stanisław Staszic
poet, politician
- Robert Gray
explorer
- Alemdar Mustafa Paşa
politician, writer
- William Bradford
judge, politician
- James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose
archer, judge
- Thomas Truxtun
military personnel, military officer
- Nicholas Gilman
politician
- Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt
aristocrat
- Franz von Weyrother
major general, military officer
- William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart
military personnel, diplomat
- Charles Manners-Sutton
Anglican priest
- Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian
playwright, fabulist
- Stanisław Kostka Potocki
architect, archaeologist
- Quatremère de Quincy
architect, politician
- Josef Philipp Vukassovich
military personnel, military officer
- John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl
politician
- Dorothea Viehmann
collector of fairy tales, writer
- Robert Kerr
biologist, translator
- Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
politician, diplomat
- Hannah Adams
historian, writer
- Antoine-François Momoro
revolutionary, printer
- Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring
anatomist, anthropologist
- Marc-Antoine Parseval
mathematician
- Gaspard de Prony
engineer, inventor
- Jean-Nicolas Corvisart
professor, surgeon
- William Paterson
botanist, explorer
- Fausto Elhuyar
chemist, mineralogist
- Grigore IV Ghica
aristocrat
- Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy
physician, entomologist
- Louis, comte de Narbonne-Lara
diplomat, military personnel
- Thomas Grenville
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, colonel
- Nicolas Fuss
university teacher, mathematician
- Thomas Stothard
copper engraver, painter
- David II of Imereti
monarch, royalty
- Luigi Mayer
painter
- Uriah Tracy
politician
- Hans Henric von Essen
military personnel, politician
- Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield
politician, diplomat
- Jean-Pierre-André Amar
lawyer, politician
- Theodor von Reding
military personnel
- Ignác Martinovics
university teacher, physicist
- Nikolay Mordvinov
military personnel, politician
- Maximin Isnard
ship-owner, entrepreneur
- Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt
pianist, actor
- Charles Pictet de Rochemont
politician, diplomat
- John Cary
publisher, merchant
- Thomas Hardwicke
naturalist, draftsperson
- Andrew Gregg
politician
- Hipólito Unanue
opinion journalist, mathematician
- Federigo Fiorillo
musician, violinist
- Petar Ičko
diplomat, merchant
- Nicolas-Antoine Taunay
painter, teacher
- Louis Ramond de Carbonnières
explorer, mountaineer
- Antonio Capuzzi
composer
- Claude-Emmanuel de Pastoret
politician, jurist
- Franz Anton Ries
violinist
- Philibert-Louis Debucourt
copper engraver, draftsperson
- Jean Louis Marie Poiret
botanist, explorer
- Mateo Albéniz
organist, Catholic priest
- Georg Zoëga
art historian, archaeologist
- Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer
entomologist, botanist
- Paolo Mascagni
university teacher, anatomist
- Jozef Ignác Bajza
parson, philologist
- Ivan Akimov
painter
- Honoré Flaugergues
magistrate, astronomer
- Jonathan Stokes
physician, botanist
- Jacques-Antoine Dulaure
historian, archaeologist
- Aloys Blumauer
satirist, poet
- Enevold De Falsen
actor, poet lawyer
- Jean Pierre Solié
opera singer, composer
- Jakob Tengström
historian, Lutheran pastor
- Giustina Renier Michiel
salonnière, linguist
- Peter I of Oldenburg
duke, land owner
- Johann Christoph Wendland
botanist, gardener
- Jean Henri Hassenfratz
writer, physicist
- Christian Friedrich von Glück
jurist, university teacher
- Bengt Anders Euphrasén
explorer, ichthyologist
- Giovanni Battista Bussi
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Johann Simon von Kerner
biologist, essayist
- Fabrizio Turriozzi
Catholic priest
- Cesare Brancadoro
librarian, Catholic bishop