1730

January 3

• Birth of Charles Palissot de Montenoy French writer/politician. [1]

January 12

• Birth of Johann Joachim Christoph Bode composer. [1]

January 14

• Birth of William Whipple merchant/judge/patriot (Declaration of Independence signer). [1]

January 15

• Birth of John Malchair composer. [1]

January 23

• Birth of Joseph Hewes US merchant (Declaration of Independence signer). [1]

February 21

• Birth of Charles L Fournier Flemish writer/painter. [1]

February 23

• Birth of Christian Joseph Lidarti composer. [1]

April 21

• Birth of Antonin Kammel composer. [1]

April 25

• Birth of Fedele Fenaroli composer. [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]

May 29

• Birth of William Jackson composer. [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 14

• Birth of Capel Bond composer. [1]

1731

February 25

• Birth of Simon Stijl Frisian physician/writer. [1]

March 7

• Birth of Jean-Louis Laruette composer. [1]

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 4

• Birth of Francisco Morera composer. [1]

April 8

• Birth of William Williams Lebanon Connecticut, US merchant (signed Declaration of Independence). [1]

May 11

• Birth of Johann Gottfried Seyfert composer. [1]

May 29

• Birth of Orazio Mei composer. [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]

November 26

• Birth of William Cowper England, preromantic poet (His Task). [1]

December 6

• Birth of S von Laroche writer. [1]

December 7

• Birth of Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron French interpreter. [1]

December 8

• Birth of Frantisek Xaver Dusek composer. [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 2

• Birth of Franz Xaver Brixi composer. [1]

January 6

• Birth of Matija A Reljkovic Croatia, writer (Satir iliti divji covic). [1]

January 11

• Birth of Pehr Forskåhl Finish botanist. [1]

January 17

• Birth of Stanislaw II August Poniatowski last king of Poland (1764-95). [1]

January 18

• Birth of Jean-Guillain Cardon composer. [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 5

• Birth of Nathanael Gottfried Gruner composer. [1]

February 22

• Birth of George Washington in Virginia; first American President (1789-97). [1] [5] [66.54]

February 25

• Birth of Robert Hudson composer. [1]

March 24

• Birth of Gian Francesco de Majo composer. [1]

March 31

• Birth of Franz Joseph Haydn Austria, composer, helped develop classical style. [1]

April 1

• Birth of Franz Josef Haydn Austria, composer (Die Schöpfung). [1]

April 5

• Birth of Jean-Honoré Fragonard France, painter. [1]

April 8

• David Rittenhouse is born; astronomer/inventor/mathematician (dies 1796). [5]

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]

May 17

• Birth of Francesco Pasquale Ricci composer. [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 13

• Birth of Jean-Claude Trial composer. [1]

December 23

• Birth of Sir Richard Arkwright inventor (spinning frame). [1]

1733

January 15

• Birth of Joseph Lederer composer. [1]

January 17

• Birth of Thomas Linley composer. [1]

March 5

• Birth of Vincenzo Galeotti [Tomazelli], Italian dancer/choreographer. [1]

March 13

• Birth of Joseph Priestly England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen). [1]

March 15

• Birth of Johann Zoffany German painter, baptized. [1]

April 2

• Birth of Giacomo Tritto composer. [1]

April 13

• Birth of Johann Heinrich Zang composer. [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 13

• Birth of Luca Sorkocevic composer. [1]

January 17

• Birth of François-Joseph Gossec Belgian-French composer (Les Pêcheurs, Mirza). [1]

January 31

• Birth of Julien-Amable Mathieu composer. [1]
• Birth of Robert Morris merchant (signed Declaration of Independence). [1]

February 20

• Birth of Franz Ignaz Beck composer. [1]

February 23

• Birth of Mayer Amschel Rothschild Frankfurt, founder (House of Rothschild). [1]

March 1

• Birth of Pieter Valck[x] South Netherlands sculptor. [1]

March 18

• Birth of Joseph Schmitt composer. [1]

March 19

• Birth of Thomas McKean US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence). [1]

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 16

• Birth of Georg Peter Weimar composer. [1]

December 17

• Birth of William Floyd US soldier/signer (Declaration of Independence). [1]

December 18

• Birth of Jean-Baptiste Rey composer. [1]

December 23

• Birth of Filinto Elísio [Francisco M do Nascimento] Portuguese poet. [1]

1735

January 1

• Birth of Paul Revere; silversmith/US patriot (British are coming). [1] [5]

January 21

• Birth of Johann Gottfried Eckard composer. [1]

February 9

• Birth of Adriaan Kluit Dutch historian. [1]

February 10

• Birth of Johann Christoph Kuhnau composer. [1]

February 25

• Birth of Ernst William Wolf composer. [1]

March 9

• Birth of August Bernhard Valentin Herbing composer. [1]

April 2

• Birth of Christian Gotthilf Tag composer. [1]
• Birth of Franz Volrath Buttstett composer. [1]

April 11

• Birth of Pierre Nicolas La Houssaye composer. [1]

April 23

• Birth of Ildephons Haas composer. [1]

May 1

• Birth of John H van Kinsbergen Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral/founder of Dutch Marines Corps. [1]

May 13

• Birth of Horace Coignet composer. [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]

December 22

• Birth of Ulrich Bräker writer. [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 3

• Birth of Johann Georg Albrechtsberger Austrian organist/composer. [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 24

• Birth of Juan de Sesse y Balaguer composer. [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 Brizio Petrucci composer. [1]
• 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). [1]

March 9

• Birth of Josef Myslivecek composer. [1]

March 28

• Birth of Francesco Zannetti composer. [1]

April 10

• Birth of François Giroust composer. [1]

April 19

• Birth of Geert Reinders Dutch cattle breeder/inoculation propagandist. [1]

April 27

• Birth of Edward Gibbon England, historian (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire). [1]

May 3

• Birth of Friedrich Schwindl composer. [1]

May 8

• Birth of Edward Gibbon England, historian (Decline and Fall of Roman Empire). [1]

May 23

• Birth of Louis François Chambray composer. [1]

September 19

• Birth of Charles Carroll signed Declaration of Independence. [1]

December 8

• Birth of Robert Kimmerling composer. [1]

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]

April 17

• Birth of Philip Hayes composer. [1]

May 4

• Birth of Josef Kohaut composer. [1]

May 9

• Birth of John Pindar [Peter] physician/poet. [1]

May 24

• Birth of George III king of Great Britain (1760-1820). [1]

May 27

• Birth of Bonaventura Furlanetto composer. [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 Sir William Herschel astronomer (discovered Uranus). [1]

December 14

• Birth of Johann Antonin Kozeluch composer. [1]

December 26

• Birth of Thomas Nelson merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence. [1]

December 28

• Birth of Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky composer. [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]

February 7

• Birth of Joseph Pouteau composer. [1]

March 16

• Birth of George Clymer US merchant (signed Declaration of Independence, Constitution). [1]

March 20

• Birth of Eligio Celestino composer. [1]

May 12

• Birth of Jan Krtitel Vanhal composer. [1]
• Birth of Johann Baptist Wanhal composer. [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]