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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1700 January 14 Birth of Picander [Christian F Henrici], German writer (Der Säuffer). [1] January 29 Birth of Daniel Bernoulli Basel Switzerland, mathematician (10 time French award). [1] February 7 Birth of Philippe Buache French geographer/cartographer (Contourlijnen). [1] February 8 Daniel Bernoulli is born (dies 1782). [5] February 23 Birth of Wilhelmus Schortinghuis Dutch theologist (Profound Christianity). [1] March 13 Birth of James Kent composer. [1] Birth of Michel Blavet composer. [1] March 22 Birth of Giuseppe Sellitto composer. [1] April 19 Birth of Georg Abraham Schneider composer. [1] May 7 Birth of Gerard van Swieten Dutch botanist. [1] May 12 Birth of Luigi Vanvitelli Italian architect. [1] May 26 Birth of Nikolaus L earl von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf German evangelist. [1] December 22 Birth of Egbert de Vrij Temminck Amsterdam regent. [1] 1701 January 10 Birth of Johann Caspar Simon composer. [1] January 27 Birth of Johann N von Hontheim German church historian/suffragan (bishop). [1] April 27 Birth of Charles Emanuel I King of Sardinia. [1] May 31 Birth of Alexander Cruden compiler of a concordance to King James Bible. [1] July 15 Birth of Pierre Joubert became oldest known Canadian (113 years 124 days at death). [1] November 27 Birth of Anders Celsius Sweden, scientist, inventor (centigrade temp scale). [1] 1702 January 6 Birth of Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu composer. [1] January 28 Birth of Hermanus Noordkerk Dutch lawyer. [1] February 10 Birth of Jean-Pierre Guignon composer. [1] February 27 Birth of Johann Valentin Gorner composer. [1] March 25 Birth of Christian Gottlieb Ziegler composer. [1] Birth of Pieter Teyler Van der Hulst Dutch silk merchant (Teyler's Museum). [1] March 27 Birth of Johann Ernst Eberlin composer. [1] June 26 Birth of Dr Philip Doddridge England, nonconformist clergyman. [1] December 22 Birth of Jean E Liotard [Turk] Swiss painter (Madame d'Epinay). [1] 1703 January 11 Birth of Columban Praelisauer composer. [1] January 20 Birth of Joseph-Hector Fiocco composer. [1] January 29 Birth of Carlmann Kolb composer. [1] March 1 Birth of Dieudonne Raick composer. [1] March 24 Birth of José F de Isla [Francisco de Salazar], Spanish Jesuit/writer. [1] April 16 Birth of Caffarelli [Gaetano Majorano] Italian castra singer/duke. [1] May 8 Birth of Gottlob Harrer composer. [1] June 17 Birth of John Wesley cofounded Methodist movement/author. [1] October 5 Birth of Jonathan Edwards US, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin). [1] 1704 February 24 Birth of Hubert Renotte composer. [1] May 7 Birth of Carl Heinrich Graun composer. [1] July 15 Birth of August Gottlieb Spangenberg founder of Moravian Church in N America. [1] July 16 Birth of John Kay England, machinist, invented flying shuttle. [1] December 8 Birth of Anton de Haen medical expert (Ratio Medendi). [1] 1705 January 14 Birth of Jean-Baptiste C Bouvet de Lozier/Lozier-Bouvet Governor (Reunion Is). [1] January 24 Birth of Farinelli "Carlo Broschi" Andria Italy, castrato. [1] February 6 Birth of Johann Matthias Leffloth composer. [1] February 15 Birth of Charles A Vanloo French painter. [1] February 22 Birth of Peter Arctedius [Artedi], Swedish biologist. [1] March 3 Birth of Michael Schevenstuhl composer. [1] April 20 Birth of Balthasar Schmid composer. [1] May 10 Birth of Gallus Zeiler composer. [1] 1706 January 17 Birth of Benjamin Franklin in Boston, Massachusetts; kite flyer/statesman/wit/inventor. [1] [129] January 28 Birth of John Baskerville English printer (typeface inventor). [1] February 12 Birth of Josef Christian German sculptor. [1] April 24 Birth of Giovanni Battista Martini composer. [1] June 10 Birth of John Dollond owner of first patent for achromatic lens. [1] December 17 Birth of Gabrielle Châtelet [La belle Emilie] French writer (Voltaire). [1] 1707 January 22 Birth of Carl Hockh composer. [1] February 7 Birth of Carl August Thielo composer. [1] February 14 Birth of Claude-Prosper J de Crébillon French writer (Le sopha). [1] February 15 Birth of Claude Prosper Paris France, novelist. [1] February 25 Birth of Carlo Goldoni Italy, lawyer/playwright (Belisario, Love of the 3 Oranges). [1] March 7 Birth of Stephen Hopkins (Governor-Rhode Island) signed Declaration of Independence. [1] April 15 Birth of Leonhard Euler Bassle Sweden, mathematician (Euler's Constant). [1] April 22 Birth of Henry Fielding in England; novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones). [1] [5] April 27 Birth of John Burman Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens. [1] May 14 Birth of Antonio Teixeira composer. [1] May 23 Birth of Carolus Linnæus Swedish botanist/"Father of Taxonomy" (naming plants and animals). [1] September 7 Birth of George-Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, writer on natural history. [1] December 18 Birth of Charles Wesley co-founder (Methodist movement). [1] 1708 January 25 Birth of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni Italian painter. [1] January 26 Birth of William Hayes composer. [1] January 30 Birth of Georg D Ehret German/English cartoonist. [1] February 8 Birth of Vaclav Jan Kopriva composer. [1] February 9 Birth of Egidio Romoaldo Duni composer (opéra-comique). [1] March 21 Birth of Caspar Ruetz composer. [1] April 6 Birth of George Reuter composer. [1] April 8 Birth of Georg Zarth composer. [1] April 23 Birth of Friedrich von Hagedorn German poet (Versuch einiger Poem). [1] May 3 Birth of Johann Adolph Scheibe German music theroist/composer. [1] October 16 Birth of Albrecht von Haller Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science). [1] November 15 Birth of William Pitt the Elder (Whig) Great Britain Prime Minister (1756-61, 1766-68) 'Great Commoner'. [1] December 4 Birth of Marianus Konigsperger composer. [1] December 8 Birth of Francis I Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765). [1] 1709 January 1 Birth of Johann H H Bütz German/Dutch organ builder. [1] January 22 Birth of Joseph Reipel composer. [1] February 16 Birth of Charles Avison composer. [1] March 1 Birth of Josef Antonin Gurecky composer. [1] September 18 Birth of Dr Samuel Johnson writer (Boswell's tour guide). [1] December 1 Birth of Franz Xaver Richter composer. [1] December 18 Birth of Elizabeth empress of Russia (to Peter the Great and Catherine I). [1] December 23 Birth of Jean-Noel Hamal composer. [1] December 27 Birth of Pieter de Swart Dutch architect (Royal Palace, Hague). [1] December 29 Birth of Elisabeth Petrovna tsarina of Russia/daughter of Peter the Great. [1] 1710 January 4 Birth of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Italian composer (Il Prigioniero Superbo). [1] January 5 Birth of Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt composer. [1] January 7 Birth of Josef Antonin Sehling composer. [1] January 30 Birth of Vigilio Blasio Faitello composer. [1] February 1 Birth of Konrad E Ackermann German actor (Die Oberpfalz). [1] February 7 Birth of William Boyce English organist/composer of Cathedral music. [1] February 15 Birth of Louis XV the Well-Beloved Versailles, King of France (1715-74). [1] February 21 Birth of Willem van Haren Frisian nobleman/poet (Human Life). [1] March 6 Birth of Giuseppi Antonio Paganelli composer. [1] March 12 Birth of Thomas Augustine Arne English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia). [1] March 27 Birth of Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco composer. [1] April 14 Birth of Marie A C de Camargo Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer. [1] April 25 Birth of James Ferguson astronomer. [1] May 14 Birth of Adolf Frederik king of Sweden (1751-70). [1] May 23 Birth of François-Gaspard Adam French sculptor (garden sculptures). [1] November 22 Birth of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach composer, son of JS Bach (Sinfonias 64). [1] December 22 Birth of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach composer, son of J.S. Bach. [1] 1711 January 12 Birth of Gaetano Latilla composer. [1] January 29 Birth of Giuseppe Bonno composer. [1] February 5 Birth of Joseph Umstatt composer. [1] March 1 Birth of Peregrinus Pogl composer. [1] April 2 Birth of Jan Punt Dutch engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool). [1] April 26 Birth of David Hume England, empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature). [1] May 18 Birth of Ruggiero G Boscovich [Rudzer J Boskovic], Italian astronomer. [1] September 6 Birth of Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg founder of US Lutheran church. [1] October 17 Birth of Jupiter Hammon first American black to publish poetry (Complete Works). [1] December 25 Birth of Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville composer. [1] 1712 January 17 Birth of John Stanley composer. [1] January 24 Birth of Frederick II (the Great), king of Prussia (1740-86). [1] Birth of Georg F Schmidt German engraver/etcher. [1] February 8 Birth of L Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Véran French General in America. [1] February 28 Birth of Louis Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Véran France, General. [1] March 13 Birth of Isfrid Kayser composer. [1] June 28 Birth of Jean Jacques Rousseau France, social contractor (Confessions). [1] October 14 Birth of George Grenville British Prime Minister (1763-65). [1] December 1 Birth of Bernhard Christian Weber composer. [1] December 11 Birth of Francesco Algarotti Italian earl/encyclopedic (Viaggio in Russia). [1] December 12 Birth of Charles Alexander Duke of Lotharingen. [1] 1713 January 2 Birth of Mademoiselle Dumesnil Paris, tragic actress (Racine's Phadre, Hermione). [1] February 13 Birth of Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas composer. [1] March 10 Birth of Christian Friedrich Schale composer. [1] Birth of Raphael Weiss composer. [1] March 15 Birth of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere. [1] March 21 Birth of Francis Lewis signed Declaration of Independence. [1] March 25 Birth of Jean-Baptiste Canavas composer. [1] April 2 Birth of Onno Zwier van Haren Frisian poet (Fatherland). [1] April 13 Birth of Pierre de Jelyotte composer. [1] April 21 Birth of Louis Duke de Noailles marshal of France. [1] May 25 Birth of John Stuart third earl of Bute, English premier (1760-63). [1] September 23 Birth of Ferdinand VI king of Spain (1746-59). [1] October 5 Birth of Denis Diderot France, encyclopedist (Dictionnaire Encyclopédique). [1] November 24 Birth of Father Junipero Serra had a mission in California. [1] Birth of Laurence Sterne Ireland, novelist/satirist (Tristram Shandy). [1] 1714 January 1 Birth of Kristijonas Donelaitis Lutheran pastor, Lithuanian poet (The Seas). [1] January 26 Birth of Jean B Pigalle French sculptor (Child with Bird Cage). [1] January 28 Birth of Jean-Baptiste Pigalle French sculptor (Child with Pigeon). [1] February 2 Birth of Gottfried August Homilius composer. [1] March 8 Birth of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach German composer, son of JS Bach. [1] March 24 Birth of Carlo Giovanni Testori composer. [1] July 2 Birth of Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck Erasbach Germany, composer. [1] December 23 Birth of Johann Siebenkas composer. [1] December 24 Birth of Rainieri De Calzabigi Italian's literary (first European Lottery). [1] 1715 January 12 Birth of Jacques Duphly composer. [1] January 15 Birth of Georg C Wagenzeil Austria (court)composer/pianist. [1] January 26 Birth of Claude Helvetius Paris France, philosopher. [1] January 27 Birth of Vaclav Kalous composer. [1] January 29 Birth of Georg Christoph Wagenseil Austrian (court)composer/pianist. [1] March 7 Birth of Ewald Christian von Kleist German lyric poet (Der Frühling). [1] March 19 Birth of Charles-Joseph van Helmont composer. [1] April 3 Birth of John Hanson Port Tobacco Maryland, first US President under Articles of Confederation. [1] April 11 Birth of John Alcock composer. [1] April 17 Birth of Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht composer. [1] April 19 Birth of James Nares composer. [1] April 23 Birth of Johann Friedrich Doles composer. [1] April 28 Birth of Franz Sparry composer. [1] May 5 Birth of Daniel Dal Barba composer. [1] July 4 Birth of Christian Gellert Saxony, poet, novelist (Fables and Tales). [1] December 8 Birth of John Althuysen Frisian vicar/poet (Frisianche rymlery). [1] December 9 Birth of Georg Gottfried Petri composer. [1] December 12 Birth of Gennaro Manna composer. [1] 1716 January 15 Birth of Philip Livingston merchant (signed Declaration of Independence). [1] January 20 Birth of Carlos III king of Naples/Spain (1759-88) Pompei/Jesuits. [1] Birth of Jean-Jacques Barthélemy French historical writer (Greek Antiquity). [1] January 26 Birth of George Sackville Germain first Viscount Sackville. [1] February 18 Birth of Gaspard Fritz composer. [1] March 19 Birth of Guillaume Coustou Jr French sculptor (Mausolée du Dauphin). [1] March 21 Birth of Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger composer. [1] April 4 Birth of John Evangelist Schreiber composer. [1] April 9 Birth of Johann Georg Zechner composer. [1] April 12 Birth of Felice de' Giardini composer. [1] May 29 Birth of Louis J M Daubenton French zoologist. [1] December 23 Birth of Johann Heinrich Rolle composer. [1] December 24 Birth of Patrice F earl De Nény South Netherlands chairman of Secret Council. [1] December 26 Birth of Thomas Gray English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard). [1] 1717 January 4 Birth of Antonio Maria Mazzoni composer. [1] January 28 Birth of Mustapha III Sultan of Turkey (1757-74). [1] January 29 Birth of Jeffrey Amherst English Governor-General of America/field marshal. [1] February 10 Birth of Pierre de La Garde composer. [1] February 19 Birth of David Garrick actor/producer/writer (Aboan-Oroonoko). [1] February 24 Birth of Bernhard Hupfeld composer. [1] February 26 Birth of John Randall composer. [1] March 26 Birth of Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila composer. [1] March 31 Birth of Florian Wrastill composer. [1] April 9 Birth of Georg Matthias Monn composer. [1] April 30 Birth of Guillaume Gommaire Kennis composer. [1] May 13 Birth of Maria Theresa Empress of Austria (Wife of emperor Franz I). [1] September 24 Birth of Horace Walpole England, writer (The Castle of Otranto). [1] November 17 Birth of Jean d'Alembert Fr, mathematician/philosopher (Traité de Dynamique). [1] December 9 Birth of Johann J Winckelmann German archaeologist (History of Ancient Art). [1] December 25 Birth of Pius VI [Giovanni A Braschi] Italy, Pope (1775-99). [1] 1718 April 14 Birth of Emanuele Barbella composer. [1] April 26 Birth of Esek Hopkins US, first commander-in-chief (US Navy). [1] May 16 Birth of Maria G Agnesi in Italy; mathematician, curves: x²y=a²(a-y). [1] May 23 Birth of William Hunter obstetrician/medal writer. [1] June 5 Birth of Thomas Chippendale England, furniture maker (baptized). [1] November 3 Birth of John Montague fourth Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich). [1] 1719 January 17 Birth of Johann Schlegel in Meissen, Germany; dramatist and literary critic. [37] Birth of Jean-Joseph Vade composer. [1] January 30 Birth of Magnus G Lichtwer German writer (Äsopischer Fabeln). [1] March 4 Birth of Aert Schouman Dutch bird/portrait painter. [1] March 30 Birth of Sir John Hawkins England, wrote first history of music. [1] April 17 Birth of Christian Gottfried Krause composer. [1] December 24 Birth of Johann Christoph Altnikol composer. [1]