Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1730

January 14
  • Birth of William Whipple merchant/judge/patriot (Declaration of Independence signer). [1]
January 23
  • Birth of Joseph Hewes US merchant (Declaration of Independence signer). [1]
May 10
  • Birth of George Ross US judge (signed Declaration of Independence). [1]
May 13
  • Birth of Charles Watson-Wentworth second marquis of Rockingham (Whig) British Prime Minister (1765-66, 1782). [1]
June 26
  • Birth of Charles Messier cataloguer of "M objects". [1]
July 12
  • Birth of Josiah Wedgewood England, pottery designer/manufacturer. [1]
September 17
  • Birth of Baron Frederick von Steuben Germany, made Continental Army winners. [1]
November 10
  • Birth of Oliver Goldsmith Ireland, novelist/dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer). [1]
December 8
  • Birth of John Ingen Housz Dutch/English personal physician of Maria Theresia. [1]
December 25
  • Birth of Filippo Mazzei in Poggio a Caiano, Tuscany; freedom fighter, militia member in Virginia 1776, co-founded Constitution Society 1784, published four-volume history of US and North America. [966.116]

1731

March 11
  • Birth of Robert Treat Paine judge, signer of Declaration of Independence. [1]
March 28
  • Birth of Rámon de la Cruz Spanish playwright/interpreter. [1]
April 8
  • Birth of William Williams Lebanon Connecticut, US merchant (signed Declaration of Independence). [1]
July 3
  • Birth of Samuel Huntington (Governor-Connecticut), Continental Congress president. [1]
October 10
  • Birth of Henry Cavendish England, physicist/chemist (discovered hydrogen). [1]
November 9
  • Birth of Benjamin Banneker Ellicott Maryland, black mathematician/surveyor (Washington DC). [1]

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November 26
  • Birth of William Cowper England, preromantic poet (His Task). [1]
December 7
  • Birth of Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron French interpreter. [1]
December 26
  • Birth of Anthony Ziesenis architect/sculptor (Town Hall of Westzaan). [1]
December 28
  • Birth of Christian Cannabich German composer/royal chaplain master. [1]

1732

January 6
  • Birth of Matija A Reljkovic Croatia, writer (Satir iliti divji covic). [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Stanislaw II August Poniatowski last king of Poland (1764-95). [1]
January 20
  • Birth of Richard H Lee US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence). [1]
January 24
  • Birth of Pierre de Beaumarchais France, playwright (Barber of Seville). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of George Washington in Virginia; first American President (1789-97). [1] [5] [66.54] [479.28]
March 31
  • Birth of Franz Joseph Haydn Austria, composer, helped develop classical style. [1]
April 13
  • Birth of Frederick Lord North (Conservative) British Prime Minister (1770-82). [1]
April 18
  • Birth of George Colman "the Elder", playwright (baptised). [1]
June 21
  • Birth of Martha Washington first, first lady. [1]
December 6
  • Birth of Warren Hastings England, first Governorernor-General of India (1773-84). [1]
December 23
  • Birth of Richard Arkwright inventor (spinning frame). [1]

1733

March 5
  • Birth of Vincenzo Galeotti [Tomazelli], Italian dancer/choreographer. [1]
March 13
  • Birth of Joseph Priestly England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen). [1]
September 18
  • Birth of George Read lawyer/signed Declaration of Independence. [1]

1734

January 1
  • Birth of John F E Acton cruel premier of Naples. [1]
January 17
  • Birth of François-Joseph Gossec Belgian-French composer (Les Pêcheurs, Mirza). [1]
January 31
  • Birth of Robert Morris merchant (signed Declaration of Independence). [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Mayer Amschel Rothschild in Frankfurt; founder (House of Rothschild). [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Thomas McKean; US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence) (dies 1817). [1] [5]
May 23
  • Birth of Friedrich Anton Mesmer Austria, physician/hypnotist (Mesmerism). [1]
November 2
  • Birth of Daniel Boone; frontiersman/explorer (US Hall of Fame-1915). [1] [5]
December 17
  • Birth of William Floyd US soldier/signer (Declaration of Independence). [1]
December 23
  • Birth of Filinto Elísio [Francisco M do Nascimento] Portuguese poet. [1]

1735

January 1
  • Birth of Paul Revere in Boston, Massachusetts; silversmith, engraver, patriot ("the British are coming"). [1] [5] [450.175]
February 9
  • Birth of Adriaan Kluit Dutch historian. [1]
May 1
  • Birth of John H van Kinsbergen Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral/founder of Dutch Marines Corps. [1]
May 23
  • Birth of Charles Joseph prince the Ligne, Belgian fieldmarshal/author. [1]
June 10
  • Birth of John Morgan American physician-in-chief of Continental Army. [1]
September 5
  • Birth of Johann Christian Bach composer, son of JS Bach (English Bach). [1]
October 30
  • Birth of John Adams in Braintree, Massachusettes, USA; second US president (1797-1801) (dies 1826). [1] [5]
December 15
  • Birth of Cesare Beccaria-Bonesana Italian lawyer. [1]

1736

January 19
  • Birth of James Watt Scotland, inventor (steam engine). [1]
  • Birth of Laurens P van de Spiegel Dutch regent/secretary of State 1787-95. [1]
January 25
  • Birth of Joseph-Louis comte de Lagrange, Turin, French mathematician. [1]
February 29
  • Birth of Anna Lee Manchester England, founder (Shaker movement in America). [1]
March 23
  • Birth of Iman Willem Falck Dutch Governor of Ceylon (1765-83). [1]
May 29
  • Birth of Patrick Henry; American patriot "Give me liberty or give me death". [1] [5]
June 14
  • Birth of Charles-Augustin de Coulomb physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law). [1]
September 4
  • Birth of Robert Raikes England, Sunday school pioneer. [1]
September 10
  • Birth of Carter Braxton signed Declaration of Independence. [1]

1737

January 3
  • Birth of Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg in Tondern, Denmark; musician, theorist of the "Sturm und Drang" movement in German literature. [37]
January 12
  • Birth of John Hancock; American patriot (first to sign Declaration of Independence). [1]
January 13
  • Birth of Joseph Hilarius Eckhel in Enzersfeld, Austria; developed a system of classification of coins for numismatics. [37]
January 19
  • Birth of Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre French writer (Paul et Virgin). [1]
January 29
  • Birth of Thomas Paine; political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason) (dies 1809). [1] [5]
April 19
  • Birth of Geert Reinders Dutch cattle breeder/inoculation propagandist. [1]
May 8
  • Birth of Edward Gibbon England, historian (Decline and Fall of Roman Empire). [1]
September 19
  • Birth of Charles Carroll signed Declaration of Independence. [1]
September 21
  • Birth of Francis Hopkinson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; representative of New Jersey in Second Continental Congress, signor of the Declaration of Independence, judge of the Admiralty Court of Pennsylvania (1779-87), United States District Court judge (1789-91). [626.201]

1738

January 10
  • Birth of Ethan Allen Revolutionary War fighter (led the Green Mountain Boys). [1]
April 14
  • Birth of Duck of Portland (Conservative) British Prime Minister (1783, 1807-09). [1]
May 28
  • Birth of Dr Joseph Ignace Guillotin France, physician/inventor (guillotine). [1]
June 4
  • Birth of George III; English king during American Revolution (1760-1820). [1] [241.9]
July 3
  • Birth of John Singleton Copley Massachusetts, finest colonial American artist. [1]
October 10
  • Birth of Benjamin West painter (Death of General Wolfe). [1]
November 15
  • Birth of William Herschel; astronomer (discovered Uranus). [1]
December 26
  • Birth of Thomas Nelson merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence. [1]
December 31
  • Birth of Charles Lord Cornwallis; solider/statesman "fire when ready Gridley". [1]

1739

January 4
  • Birth of Henrik C Cras Dutch lawyer (Laudatio Hugonis Grotii). [1]
March 16
  • Birth of George Clymer US merchant (signed Declaration of Independence, Constitution). [1]
July 26
  • Birth of George Clinton New York, (Democrat-R) fourth Vice President (1805-12). [1]
September 13
  • Birth of Grigory Potemkin army officer, statesman, Catherine II's lover, OS. [1]

End of 1730-1739. Next: 1740.

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