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Born in 1759

103 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Mary Wollstonecraft

    governess, translator

    1759–1797 · aged 38

    April 27 · 1759

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  2. Robert Burns

    musicologist, farmer

    1759–1796 · aged 37

    January 25 · 1759

    Source: Musicalics

  3. William Pitt the Younger

    lawyer, politician

    1759–1806 · aged 46

    May 28 · 1759

    Source: GeneaStar

  4. William Wilberforce

    philanthropist, politician

    1759–1833 · aged 73

    August 24 · 1759

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  5. Friedrich Schiller

    librarian, journalist

    1759–1805 · aged 45

    November 10 · 1759

    Source: Schiller, (Johann Christoph) Friedrich

  6. Georges Danton*

    revolutionary, jurist

    Date disputed

    October 26 · 1759

    Source: Sycomore

  7. Sophie Dorothee of Württemberg

    consort

    1759–1828 · aged 69

    October 25 · 1759

    Source: The Peerage

  8. Joseph Fouché

    teacher, duke

    1759–1820 · aged 61

    May 21 · 1759

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  9. Vittorio Emanuele I of Sardinia

    king

    1759–1824 · aged 64

    July 24 · 1759

    Source: BeWeB

  10. William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville

    politician

    1759–1834 · aged 74

    October 25 · 1759

    Source: Find a Grave

  11. Marie Clotilde of France

    aristocrat

    1759–1802 · aged 42

    September 23 · 1759

    Source: Roglo

  12. Friedrich August Wolf

    classical philologist, literary critic

    1759–1824 · aged 65

    February 15 · 1759

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  13. Adrienne de Noailles, Mademoiselle d'Ayen

    aristocrat

    1759–1807 · aged 48

    November 2 · 1759

    Source: Find a Grave

  14. Sake Dean Mahomed

    Lascar, surgeon

    1759–1851

    1759

    Source: BnF authorities

  15. Jacques Cathelineau

    peddler, military officer

    1759–1793 · aged 34

    January 5 · 1759

    Source: BnF authorities

  16. Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp

    writer

    1759–1818 · aged 59

    March 22 · 1759

    Source: Find a Grave

  17. Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg

    military officer

    1759–1830 · aged 71

    September 26 · 1759

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  18. William Playfair

    secret service officer, statistician

    1759–1823 · aged 63

    September 22 · 1759

    Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  19. Prince Maximilian of Saxony

    aristocrat

    1759–1838 · aged 78

    April 13 · 1759

    Source: The Peerage

  20. Mason Locke Weems

    writer, bookseller

    1759–1825 · aged 65

    October 11 · 1759

    Source: Find a Grave

  21. Pierre-Joseph Redouté

    printmaker, artist

    1759–1840

    July 10 · 1759

    Source: GeneaStar

  22. François Hanriot

    orator, writer

    1759–1794 · aged 34

    December 3 · 1759

    No external source identified

  23. William Thornton*

    physician, inventor

    Date disputed

    May 20 · 1759

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  24. Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles

    judge, lawyer

    1759–1794 · aged 34

    September 20 · 1759

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  25. Maria Theresia Paradis

    composer, pianist

    1759–1824 · aged 64

    May 15 · 1759

    Source: Paradis, Maria Theresia von (BLKÖ)

  26. Alexander J. Dallas

    politician, court reporter

    1759–1817 · aged 57

    June 21 · 1759

    Source: GeneaStar

  27. Cornelio Saavedra

    politician, military personnel

    1759–1829 · aged 69

    September 15 · 1759

    Source: BnF authorities

  28. Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths

    gymnast, physical education teacher

    1759–1839 · aged 79

    August 9 · 1759

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  29. Vincenzo Lunardi

    diplomat, balloonist

    1759–1806

    January 11 · 1759

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  30. Maximilian von Montgelas

    historian, jurist

    1759–1838 · aged 78

    September 12 · 1759

    Source: BnF authorities

  31. James Edward Smith

    lepidopterist, pteridologist

    1759–1828 · aged 68

    December 2 · 1759

    Source: BnF authorities

  32. Ferenc Kazinczy

    linguist, literary translator

    1759–1831

    October 27 · 1759

    Source: BnF authorities

  33. Franz Krommer

    organist, composer

    1759–1831 · aged 71

    November 27 · 1759

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  34. Joaquín Blake y Joyes

    Capitán General, military personnel

    1759–1827 · aged 67

    August 19 · 1759

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  35. Elizabeth Farren

    stage actor, aristocrat

    1759–1829

    1759

    Source: SNAC

  36. Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach

    chapelmaster, organist

    1759–1845 · aged 86

    May 24 · 1759

    Source: SNAC

  37. William Kirby

    entomologist, zoologist

    1759–1850 · aged 90

    September 19 · 1759

    Source: SNAC

  38. François Devienne

    bassoonist, musicologist

    1759–1803 · aged 44

    January 31 · 1759

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  39. James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale

    author, politician

    1759–1839 · aged 80

    January 26 · 1759

    Source: Genealogics

  40. John Francis Mercer

    lawyer, politician

    1759–1821 · aged 62

    May 17 · 1759

    Source: SNAC

  41. John Gilchrist

    banker, linguist

    1759–1841 · aged 81

    June 19 · 1759

    Source: BnF authorities

  42. William Plumer

    politician, governor

    1759–1850 · aged 91

    June 25 · 1759

    Source: SNAC

  43. Matsudaira Sadanobu

    philosopher, daimyo

    1759–1829 · aged 70

    January 15 · 1759

    Source: SNAC

  44. Elizabeth Fulhame

    biologist, chemist

    1759–1810

    1759

    Source: book

  45. Carl Erik Mannerheim

    civil servant, military personnel

    1759–1837 · aged 77

    December 14 · 1759

    Source: Biografiskt lexikon för Finland

  46. Claude Lecourbe

    military personnel, lieutenant general

    1759–1815 · aged 56

    February 22 · 1759

    Source: Léonore database

  47. Helen Maria Williams*

    poet, novelist

    Date disputed

    June 17 · 1759

    Source: georgianera.wordpress.com

  48. Mary Hays*

    novelist, writer

    Date disputed

    May 4 · 1759

    Source: SNAC

  49. Adriana Ferrarese del Bene*

    composer, opera singer

    Date disputed

    September 19 · 1759

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  50. Richard Porson

    writer, metricist

    1759–1808 · aged 48

    December 25 · 1759

    Source: Find a Grave

  51. Louise d'Aumont

    aristocrat

    1759–1826 · aged 67

    October 22 · 1759

    Source: Genealogics

  52. John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland

    politician

    1759–1841 · aged 82

    June 1 · 1759

    Source: The Peerage

  53. Johann Christian Reil

    physician, author

    1759–1813 · aged 54

    February 20 · 1759

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  54. William Jackson

    lawyer, military personnel

    1759–1828 · aged 69

    March 9 · 1759

    Source: SNAC

  55. John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden

    politician

    1759–1840 · aged 81

    February 11 · 1759

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  56. Adrien Duport

    magistrate, politician

    1759–1798 · aged 39

    February 24 · 1759

    Source: SNAC

  57. María Teresa de Vallabriga y Rozas

    aristocrat

    1759–1820 · aged 60

    November 6 · 1759

    No external source identified

  58. Hammuda Pasha Bey

    politician

    1759–1814 · aged 54

    December 9 · 1759

    No external source identified

  59. Andrey Voronikhin

    architect, painter

    1759–1814 · aged 54

    October 28 · 1759

    No external source identified

  60. Johann Maria Philipp Frimont*

    military personnel, military officer

    Date disputed

    January 3 · 1759

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  61. Thomas Andrew Knight

    gardener, botanist

    1759–1838

    August 12 · 1759

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  62. Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc

    ichthyologist, naturalist

    1759–1828 · aged 69

    January 29 · 1759

    Source: www.academie-medecine.fr

  63. August Wilhelm Iffland

    actor, playwright

    1759–1814 · aged 55

    April 19 · 1759

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  64. Louis François Antoine Arbogast

    politician, mathematician

    1759–1803

    October 4 · 1759

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  65. Wenzel Müller

    conductor, composer

    1759–1835 · aged 75

    September 26 · 1759

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  66. John Frederick Miller

    illustrator, ornithologist

    1759–1796

    1759

    Source: author citation in botany and mycology

  67. Carl Frederik von Breda

    painter

    1759–1818 · aged 59

    August 16 · 1759

    Source: RKDartists

  68. Jean Antoine Rossignol

    military personnel

    1759–1802 · aged 42

    November 7 · 1759

    Source: Babelio

  69. Jean Noel Destréhan

    plantation owner, politician

    1759–1823 · aged 63

    December 12 · 1759

    No external source identified

  70. Étienne Eustache Bruix

    politician, military personnel

    1759–1805 · aged 45

    July 17 · 1759

    Source: GeneaStar

  71. Alexander Chalmers

    biographer, journalist

    1759–1834 · aged 75

    March 29 · 1759

    Source: SNAC

  72. Dominique-Georges-Frédéric Dufour de Pradt

    politician, Catholic priest

    1759–1837 · aged 77

    April 23 · 1759

    Source: SNAC

  73. Israel Smith

    judge, lawyer

    1759–1810 · aged 51

    April 4 · 1759

    Source: Find a Grave

  74. Jakob II Bernoulli

    mathematician, physicist

    1759–1789 · aged 29

    October 17 · 1759

    Source: www.accademiadellescienze.it

  75. Thomas Thorild

    university teacher, poet

    1759–1808 · aged 49

    April 18 · 1759

    Source: SNAC

  76. Neshat Esfahani*

    writer, poet

    Date disputed

    1759

    No external source identified

  77. Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont*

    pastor, politician

    Date disputed

    January 18 · 1759

    No external source identified

  78. Grigory Razumovsky

    zoologist, botanist

    1759–1837 · aged 77

    November 21 · 1759

    Source: Historical Dictionary of Switzerland

  79. Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin

    painter, miniaturist

    1759–1832 · aged 72

    August 15 · 1759

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  80. Francesco Saverio Caruana

    Catholic priest, politician

    1759–1847 · aged 88

    July 7 · 1759

    Source: Catholic-Hierarchy.org

  81. Juan Martínez de Rozas

    lawyer, politician

    1759–1813

    1759

    Source: Sapere Encyclopedia

  82. Alexander Hangerli*

    philologist, diplomat

    Date disputed

    1759

    No external source identified

  83. Marianna Auenbrugger

    pianist, composer

    1759–1782 · aged 23

    July 19 · 1759

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  84. Tomasz Wawrzecki*

    politician, soldier

    Date disputed

    March 7 · 1759

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  85. José de Bustamante y Guerra

    politician, military personnel

    1759–1825 · aged 65

    April 1 · 1759

    Source: SNAC

  86. Aubin-Louis Millin de Grandmaison

    numismatist, historian

    1759–1818

    July 19 · 1759

    Source: Library of Congress Authorities

  87. Hieronim Wincenty Radziwiłł

    politician

    1759–1786 · aged 27

    May 11 · 1759

    No external source identified

  88. Jean-Baptiste Audebert

    painter, illustrator

    1759–1800 · aged 41

    March 2 · 1759

    Source: Audebert, Jean Baptiste

  89. Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes*

    orientalist, diplomat

    Date disputed

    August 20 · 1759

    Source: La France savante

  90. Francis Adam of Waldstein-Wartenberg

    military personnel, naturalist

    1759–1823 · aged 64

    February 14 · 1759

    No external source identified

  91. Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner

    voice teacher, silhouette artist

    1759–1833 · aged 74

    March 2 · 1759

    Source: Musicalics

  92. Jean-Baptiste Dominique Rusca

    military personnel, physician

    1759–1814 · aged 54

    November 27 · 1759

    Source: Léonore database

  93. Maria Rosa Coccia

    musicologist, composer

    1759–1833 · aged 74

    January 4 · 1759

    Source: Musicalics

  94. François Andrieux

    writer, poet

    1759–1833 · aged 74

    May 6 · 1759

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  95. Rasmus Nyerup

    librarian, literary historian

    1759–1829 · aged 70

    March 12 · 1759

    Source: BnF authorities

  96. Christian Leberecht Vogel

    graphic artist, history painter

    1759–1816 · aged 57

    April 6 · 1759

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  97. Maria Petraccini

    physicist, anatomist

    1759–1791 · aged 31

    November 12 · 1759

    Source: Archive.org

  98. François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison

    painter, poet

    1759–1834 · aged 75

    May 7 · 1759

    Source: BnF authorities

  99. Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein

    political activist, patron of the arts

    1759–1805 · aged 45

    May 14 · 1759

    Source: Liechtenstein, Alois Joseph Fürst von (BLKÖ)

  100. Jean Jacques Antoine Caussin de Perceval

    translator, professor

    1759–1835 · aged 76

    June 24 · 1759

    Source: La France savante

  101. Diego Innico Caracciolo di Martina

    Catholic priest

    1759–1820 · aged 60

    July 18 · 1759

    No external source identified

  102. Pietro Caprano

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1759–1834 · aged 74

    February 28 · 1759

    No external source identified

  103. Carlos da Cunha e Menezes

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1759–1825 · aged 66

    April 9 · 1759

    No external source identified

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