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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1720 January 4 Birth of Johann Friedrich Agricola German (court)composer/organist. [1] January 11 Birth of Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck Utrechts regent. [1] January 27 Birth of Samuel Foote England; actor/dramatist (Mirror). [1] April 3 Birth of Elia van Vilnius [Elijahu ben Salomo Zalman] Latvian rabbi. [1] May 21 Birth of Antonio Corbisiero composer. [1] July 18 Birth of Gilbert White "father of British naturalists". [1] September 12 Birth of Frederick Philipse III New York City, land owner (Bronx, Westchester and Putnam). [1] December 4 Birth of Jean-Jacques Robson composer. [1] December 14 Birth of Justus Möser writer. [1] December 15 Birth of J F Beck writer. [1] December 20 Birth of Charles Edward Stuart [Bonnie Prince Charlie/Young Pretender]. [1] December 31 Birth of [Bonnie Prince] Charles Edward Stuart English pretender to throne. [1] 1721 January 12 Birth of Ferdinand in Wolfenbüttel, Germany; dominant military force in Prussia's Seven Years' War against Austria. [37] February 13 Birth of John Reid composer. [1] March 19 Birth of Tobias Smollett Scottish writer, baptized. [1] April 1 Birth of Pieter Hellendaal Dutch violinist/organist/composer (Glees). [1] April 14 Birth of William August [Duke of Cumberland] English army leader. [1] April 19 Birth of Roger Sherman signer (Declaration of Independence, Constitution). [1] Birth of Thomas McKean attorney (signed Declaration of Independence) [or 3/19]. [1] April 24 Birth of Johann Philipp Kirnberger German composer, baptised. [1] December 25 Birth of William Collins Chichester England, (Mayor-Chichester)/poet. [1] December 27 Birth of Franciscus "French" Hemsterhuis Frisian philosopher. [1] December 29 Birth of Madame De Pompadour mistress of French King Louis the 15th. [1] 1722 January 14 Birth of Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer composer. [1] January 26 Birth of Prestonpans. [1] January 28 Birth of Johann Ernst Bach composer. [1] April 11 Birth of Christopher Smart English poet and journalist (Ceremony of Carols). [1] April 12 Birth of Pietro Nardini composer. [1] May 11 Birth of Peter Camper Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam). [1] May 21 Birth of Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle composer. [1] May 22 Birth of Johannes Schmidlin composer. [1] September 27 Birth of Samuel Adams revolutionary rabble rouser/(Lieutenant Governor-Massachusetts, 1789-94). [1] December 1 Birth of A L Karschin writer. [1] 1723 January 1 Birth of Christian Friedrich Gregor composer. [1] January 27 Birth of Johann A Cramer prime minister/poet. [1] February 5 Birth of John Witherspoon clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence. [1] February 17 Birth of Tobias Mayer "method of lunars" for longitude determination. [1] March 25 Birth of Kaat Mussel [Catharina Mulder], Dutch demonstrater. [1] March 31 Birth of Frederik V King of Denmark/Norway (1746-66). [1] April 14 Birth of John Wainwright composer. [1] April 25 Birth of Giovanni Marco Rutini composer. [1] June 5 Birth of Adam Smith Kirkcaldy Scotland, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized). [1] June 11 Birth of J G Palitzsch first saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz. [1] July 10 Birth of Sir William Blackstone England, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries). [1] July 16 Birth of Sir Joshua Reynolds England, portrait painter (Simplicity). [1] December 19 Birth of Susanne K von Klettenberg German friend of Goethes mother. [1] December 22 Birth of Carl Friedrich Abel German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer. [1] 1724 January 30 Birth of Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger composer. [1] February 6 Birth of Paul-Louis Cyfflé Flemish sculptor (Terre de Lorraine). [1] April 12 Birth of Lyman Hall US physician (signed Declaration of Independence). [1] April 22 Birth of Immanuel Kant in Konigsberg, Germany; philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason) (dies 1804). [1] [5] April 27 Birth of Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz composer. [1] May 10 Birth of Johan A Zoutman Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral (battle of Doggersbank). [1] August 25 Birth of George Stubbs England, animal painter (House Frightened by Lion). [1] December 1 Birth of Charles Theodoor elector (Palts and Bayern). [1] Birth of Dismas Hatas composer. [1] December 5 Birth of Joseph Friebert composer. [1] December 13 Birth of Aepinus [Franz Hoch] German physician/physicist. [1] December 31 Birth of Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel composer. [1] 1725 February 25 Birth of Armand-Louis Couperin Paris France, composer/organist (Notre Dame). [1] Birth of Karl Wilhelm Ramler German poet (Geistliche Kantaten). [1] March 20 Birth of Abdül-Hamid I 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89). [1] March 29 Birth of Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder composer. [1] April 1 Birth of François Bainville composer. [1] April 2 Birth of Casanova writer. [1] April 5 Birth of Giacomo Casanova Italian writer/philanderer/adventurer (uncertain). [1] April 20 Birth of Johann Friedrich Kloffler composer. [1] September 25 Birth of Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot designed and built first automobile. [1] 1726 January 4 Birth of Cornelis Ploos van Amstel Dutch engraver/art collector. [1] January 18 Birth of Hendrik prince of Prussia/diplomat. [1] February 15 Birth of Abraham Clark farmer/lawyer, signed Declaration of Independence. [1] March 11 Birth of Madame Louise-Florence d'Épinay France, writer (Woman, Man and 2 Kingdoms)/salon hostess. [1] March 14 Birth of Josef Antonin Stepan composer. [1] April 8 Birth of Lewis Morris Bronx New York, US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence). [1] April 20 Birth of Jozef de Ferraris French/Austrian earl/General/cartographer. [1] April 26 Birth of Pasquale Paoli Corsican freedom fighter. [1] May 25 Birth of Giuseppi Paolucci composer. [1] September 7 Birth of François-André Philidor France, chess champion/musician. [1] November 20 Birth of Oliver Wolcott (Connecticut-Governor), signed Declaration of Independence. [1] December 1 Birth of Eggert Olafsson Icelandic writer. [1] Birth of Oliver Wolcott US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence). [1] December 24 Birth of Johann Ernst Hartmann composer. [1] 1727 January 2 Birth of James Wolfe commanded British Army (captured Québec). [1] January 11 Birth of Franz Sebastian Haindl composer. [1] January 13 Birth of Johann Christoph Schmugel composer. [1] January 22 Birth of Claude-Benigne Balbastre composer. [1] March 14 Birth of Johann Gottlieb Goldberg composer. [1] March 28 Birth of Maximilian III Jozef Elector of Bayern (1745-77). [1] March 30 Birth of Tommaso Traetta Italy's opera composer/band leader (Farnace). [1] April 3 Birth of Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt Flemish painter/engraver. [1] April 5 Birth of Pasquale Ankossi composer. [1] April 7 Birth of Henri Hardouin composer. [1] Birth of Michel Adanson French biologist (Natural History of Sénégal). [1] April 12 Birth of Gaspare Gabellone composer. [1] April 29 Birth of Jean-Georges Noverre French dancer/choreographer (ballet d'action). [1] May 10 Birth of Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot French minister of Finance (17.. -76). [1] May 14 Birth of Thomas Gainsborough England, baptized, artist (The Blue Boy). [1] December 22 Birth of William Ellery signer of the Declaration of Independence. [1] 1728 January 2 Birth of Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium. [1] January 6 Birth of Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier composer. [1] Birth of Domingos dos Reis Quita Portuguese playwright/poet. [1] January 9 Birth of Thomas Warton poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy). [1] January 16 Birth of Niccolò Piccinni Italian composer (Buona Figliuola). [1] January 17 Birth of Johann Gottfried Muthel composer. [1] January 25 Birth of Antoine Court de Gébelin French vicar/writer. [1] February 10 Birth of Peter III Feodorovich German/Russian czar of Russia (1761-62). [1] February 21 Birth of Peter III Kiel Germany, Russian tsar (1761-62), husband of Catherine. [1] February 29 Birth of Robert Bage English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner). [1] March 19 Birth of Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen Flemish (court)painter. [1] March 20 Birth of Franciscus L Kersteman Dutch lawyer/astrologist. [1] March 22 Birth of Anton Raphael Mengs German writer/neo-classic painter. [1] Birth of Giacomo Insanguine composer. [1] April 2 Birth of Franz Asplmayr composer. [1] April 16 Birth of Joseph Zwart Scottish chemist/physicist. [1] April 19 Birth of Francisco Albergati Capacelli Italian playwright. [1] April 23 Birth of Samuel Wallis explorer (Wallis Island). [1] August 26 Birth of Johann Lambert Switzerland, mathematician, proved pi is irrational. [1] October 3 Birth of Christian d'Oriola France, foils (Olympic-gold-1952, 56). [1] October 7 Birth of Caesar Rodney Delaware, patriot, signed Declaration of Independence. [1] October 27 Birth of James Cook captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands. [1] December 2 Birth of Ferdinando Galiani Italian economist/philosopher/diplomat. [1] December 8 Birth of Johann G von Zimmermann Swiss author. [1] December 9 Birth of Pietro Alessandro Guglieli composer. [1] December 21 Birth of Hermann Friedrich Raupach composer. [1] December 22 Birth of Charles Frederick Baden, liberal ruler of Baden. [1] December 25 Birth of Johann Adam Hiller composer. [1] 1729 January 1 Birth of Edmund Burke British author/famous Whig (Philosophy and Inquiry, Reflections on the Revolution). [1] January 2 Birth of Johann Daniel Titius in Konitz, Germany (now in Poland); astronomer, professor at the University of Wittenberg, calculations expressing the distance between the planets and the sun became know as the "Titius-Bode law". [37] January 5 Birth of Paul C la Fargue cartoonist/painter. [1] January 12 Birth of Edmund Burke British author (Philosophy and Inquiry). [1] Birth of Lazzaro Spallanzani Modena Italy, physiologist. [1] January 22 Birth of Giuseppe Luigi Tibaldi composer. [1] Birth of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Germany, critic/dramatist. [1] March 16 Birth of Georg W "Franz" Panzer German vicar/librarian (Annales typographic). [1] March 28 Birth of Pieter Fouquet Dutch art seller (Atlas of Fouquet). [1] April 13 Birth of Thomas Percy English literary/bishop of Dromore. [1] April 18 Birth of Gaetano B Vestris Italian/French ballet dancer. [1] April 21 Birth of Catharina II the Great, writer/emperess of Russia (1762-96). [1] May 2 Birth of Catherine II (the Great); empress of Russia (1762-96). [1] [5] Birth of Florian Johann Deller composer. [1] May 3 Birth of Florian Leopold Gassmann composer. [1] May 12 Birth of Michaël F B Freiherr von Melas Austrian general (7 Year Wars). [1] May 13 Birth of Henry William (Baron) Stiegel early American glassmaker. [1] May 23 Birth of Giuseppe Parini Italian priest/poet (Il Giorno). [1] May 25 Birth of Jean de Neufville Dutch/US merchant (started fourth English war). [1] September 26 Birth of Moses Mendelssohn philosopher/critic/Bible translator. [1] December 1 Birth of Giuseppe Sarti composer. [1] December 3 Birth of Padre Antonio Francisco J Jose Soler Olot Spain, composer (Fandango). [1] December 20 Birth of Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny composer. [1]