Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1740

February 7
  • Birth of Adam-Philippe Custine French earl/General/Member of Parliament. [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Giambattista Bodoni Saluzzo Italy, printer/typeface designer. [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Horace Bénédict de Saussure in Switzerland; physicist/geologist, invented cyanometer, scale for measuring blueness of sky. [1] [1443.27]
March 6
  • Birth of Giovanni Meli Siclian poet (Buccolica). [1]
April 2
  • Birth of Armand-Gaston Camus French CEO (Council of 500). [1]
May 2
  • Birth of Elias Boudinot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; lawyer, US Mint Director (1795-1805), member of New Jersey Provincial Congress (1775), President of Continental Congress (1782-1783), signed peace treaty with Great Britain, member of House of Representatives (1789-1795), co-founded American Bible Society (1816), President of American Bible Society. [1] [1098.981]
May 9
  • Birth of Giovanni Paisiello Italian composer (Barber of Seville). [1]
June 2
  • Birth of Marquis de Sade; first known sadist, writer (Justine). [1673.27]
August 26
  • Birth of Joseph Montgolfier France, aeronaut (ballooning). [1]
October 29
  • Birth of James Boswell Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer. [1]

1741

January 25
  • Birth of Benedict Arnold General /traitor (US revolution). [1]
January 31
  • Birth of Theodor Gotlieb von Hippel East Prussian author/mayor of Köningsberg. [1]
March 13
  • Birth of Jozef II arch duke of Austria/Roman Catholic German emperor (1765-90). [1]
April 6
  • Birth of Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort French playwright (Maximes). [1]
April 8
  • Birth of José B da Gama Portuguese poet (O Uraguai). [1]
April 15
  • Birth of Charles Willson Peale US, port painter/inventor (George Washington). [1]

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April 17
  • Birth of Samuel Chase judge (signed Declaration of Independence). [1]
May 17
  • Birth of John Penn US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence). [1]
December 8
  • Birth of Maximilian JLP Gardel French dancer/choreographer (Menuet Reine). [1]
December 10
  • Birth of Agatha "Aagje" Deken Dutch writer (For the Elderly and Children). [1]

1742

January 7
  • Birth of Christian Garve; enlightenment philosopher, professor at the University of Leipzig. [37]
June 17
  • Birth of William Hooper signed Declaration of Independence. [1]
June 26
  • Birth of Arthur Middleton signer Declaration of Independence. [1]
August 7
  • Birth of Nathanael Greene American Revolutionary War General. [1]
December 9
  • Birth of Carl W Scheele Swedish pharmacist/chemist (lemon acid). [1]
December 16
  • Birth of Gebhard Leberecht Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt German fieldmarshal. [1]

1743

January 21
  • Birth of John Fitch inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton). [1]
February 19
  • Birth of [Ridolfo] Luigi Boccherini Italian composer, cellist (Minuet). [1]
April 13
  • Birth of Thomas Jefferson in Shadwell, Virginia; politician (Democrat-R) third US President (1801-09). [1] [5] [487.34]
April 24
  • Birth of Edmund Cartwright England, cleric, inventor (power loom). [1]
May 20
  • Birth of [François D] Toussaint L'Ouverture (à Breda), leader (Haiti). [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Jean-Paul Marat France, revolutionist. [1]
August 26
  • Birth of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier in Paris, France; father of modern chemistry (Oxygen). [1] [5]
December 1
  • Birth of Martin H Klaproth German chemist (uranium). [1]
December 29
  • Birth of Alexander van Bylandt Dutch military officer. [1]

1744

February 21
  • Birth of Eise J Eisinga Frisia, built planetarium Franeker. [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Mayer Amschel von Rothschild; financier. [480.56]
April 18
  • Birth of Pieter 't Hoen Dutch journalist/patriot. [1]
May 18
  • Birth of Joseph Beer Bohemia clarinetist/composer (5th clarinet flap). [1]
July 17
  • Birth of Elbridge Thomas Gerry in Marblehead, Massachusetts; American statesman and diplomat, Governor of Massachusetts (1810-11), Vice President (1813-14). [1] [130]
August 1
  • Birth of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck believed in inheritance of acquired traits. [1]
November 11
  • Birth of Abigail Adams in Weymouth, Massachusetts; second first lady of USA (1797-1801). [1] [559.66]
December 19
  • Birth of Jacobus J Cramer priest of Holland/Zealand/West-Friesland. [1]

1745

January 1
  • Birth of "Mad" Anthony Wayne General. [1]
January 6
  • Birth of Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier Annonay France, aeronaut (first pioneer balloonist/brother of Joseph-Michel/co-inventor of calorimeter, hydraulic ram, and process for producing vellum). [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta physicist/inventor (battery). [1]
April 20
  • Birth of Philippe Pinel physician, founder of psychiatry. [1]
April 29
  • Birth of Oliver Ellsworth; third US Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800). [1]
June 11
  • Birth of David A. Brearley in Lawrenceville, New Jersey; signed the U.S Constitution on behalf of New Jersey, chief justice of New Jersey (1779-89), first federal district judge for the US District Court for New Jersey. [626.206]
September 23
  • Birth of John Sevier Tennessee, indian fighter (Governor/Republican-Tennessee). [1]
October 2
  • Birth of Robert Scot in Scotland; engraver (US Mint). [551.22] [1632.31]
December 12
  • Birth of John Jay diplomat (New York-Governor). [1]

1746

January 4
  • Birth of Benjamin Rush in Byberry, Pennsylvania; medical doctor, delegate to Continental Congress, signed Declaration of Independence for Pennsylvania, Surgeon-General of Continental Army, president of Philadelphia Medical Society, US Mint Treasurer (1797-1813). [1] [1098.980]
January 11
  • Birth of William Curtis English botanist/publisher (Botanical Magazine). [1]
January 21
  • Birth of Johann H Pestalozzi Zurich Switzerland, educator (Leonard and Gertrude). [1]
January 24
  • Birth of Gustav III king during Swedish Enlightenment (1771-92). [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Johann Heinse German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic. [1]
March 27
  • Birth of Carlo Bonaparte Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon. [1]
March 30
  • Birth of Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes in Fuendetodos, Spain; painter/etcher (Naked Maja, The Third of May, The Witches' Sabbath). [1] [248.25]
May 30
  • Birth of Pierre François Dominique Toussaint AKA Toussaint l'Ouverture in Haiti; slave, rebel leader, Commander-in-Chief. [1166.244]
July 16
  • Birth of Giuseppe Piazzi discovered first asteroid (Ceres). [1]
July 28
  • Birth of Thomas Heyward soldier, signed Declaration of Independence. [1]
October 7
  • Birth of William Billings Boston Massachusetts, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon). [1]
November 27
  • Birth of Robert Livingston delivered oath of office to George Washington. [1]

1747

January 10
  • Birth of Abraham L Breguet French clock maker. [1]
February 4
  • Birth of Tadeusz Kosciusko Poland, patriot, (New York Bridge). [1]
March 3
  • Birth of Kasamir Pulaski US General (Revolutionary War). [1]
March 31
  • Birth of Johann Abraham Peter Schulz German composer (Moon has Risen). [1]
July 6
  • Birth of John Paul Jones; naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight"). [1]
December 26
  • Birth of Cornelis Stevens Belgium, Roman Catholic foreman/polemist (Le sophisme dévoilé). [1]

1748

February 5
  • Birth of Christian Gottlob Neefe; German composer, conductor, tutor of Beethoven. [1]
February 6
  • Birth of Adam Weishaupt; Jesuit, founder of Order of the Illuminati. [916.53]
February 15
  • Birth of Jeremy Bentham London England, philosopher/originator (Utilitarian). [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Willem V Batavus prince of Orange-Nassau. [1]
May 16
  • Birth of Antonius van Alphen apostolic vicar of De Bosch. [1]
August 30
  • Birth of Jacques-Louis David France, Neoclassical painter (Death of Marat). [1]
November 11
  • Birth of Charles IV king of Spain (1788-1808). [1]

1749

January 12
  • Birth of Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff Austrian earl/prince/diplomat. [1]
January 16
  • Birth of Vittoria A Alfieri Italian count/poet (Maria Stuarda). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Johann Nikolaus Forkel musicologist/first biographer of Bach. [1]
April 13
  • Birth of Frederik Sigismund van Bylandt Dutch count/Vice-Admiral. [1]
May 17
  • Birth of Edward Jenner England, physician, discovered vaccination. [1]
August 5
  • Birth of Thomas Lynch signed Declaration of Independence. [1]
August 28
  • Birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust). [1]
November 23
  • Birth of Edward Rutledge (Governor-South Carolina) signed Declaration of Independence. [1]
December 17
  • Birth of Domenico Cimarosa Italian composer (Il Matrimonio Segreto). [1]

End of 1740-1749. Next: 1750.

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