1740

February 3

• Birth of Guillaume Lasceux composer. [1]

February 7

• Birth of Adam-Philippe Custine French earl/General/Member of Parliament. [1]

February 12

• Birth of Matej Sojka composer. [1]

February 15

• Birth of Ernst Eichner composer. [1]

February 16

• Birth of Giambattista Bodoni Saluzzo Italy, printer/typeface designer. [1]

February 17

• Birth of Horace B de Saussure Swiss physicist/geologist. [1]

March 6

• Birth of Giovanni Meli Siclian poet (Buccolica). [1]

March 19

• Birth of Johann Georg Roser composer. [1]
• Birth of Joseph F Weigl Germany, violin cellist. [1]

March 24

• Birth of John Antes composer. [1]

April 2

• Birth of Armand-Gaston Camus French CEO (Council of 500). [1]

April 4

• Birth of Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen composer. [1]

April 18

• Birth of Francis Baring banker/merchant. [1]

May 2

• Birth of Elias Boudinot lawyer/patriot, found American Biblical Society. [1]

May 9

• Birth of Giovanni Paisiello Italian composer (Barber of Seville). [1]

June 2

• Birth of Marquis de Sade first known sadist, writer (Justine). [1]

August 26

• Birth of Joseph Montgolfier France, aeronaut (ballooning). [1]

October 29

• Birth of James Boswell Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer. [1]

December 13

• Birth of Franz Xaver Schnitzer composer. [1]

1741

January 14

• Birth of Benedict Arnold US General turned traitor (Revolutionary War). [1]

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]

February 8

• Birth of Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry composer. [1]

February 9

• Birth of Henri-Joseph Rigel composer. [1]

February 10

• Birth of Franz Adam Veichtner composer. [1]

March 13

• Birth of Jozef II arch duke of Austria/Roman Catholic German emperor (1765-90). [1]

March 28

• Birth of Johann Andre composer. [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]

April 17

• Birth of Johann Gottlieb Naumann composer. [1]
• Birth of Samuel Chase judge (signed Declaration of Independence). [1]

May 10

• Birth of Johann Michael Schmidt composer. [1]

May 17

• Birth of John Penn US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence). [1]

May 23

• Birth of Andrea Lucchesi composer. [1]

May 29

• Birth of Johann Gottfried Krebs composer. [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]

December 30

• Birth of Bartolomeo Giacometti composer. [1]

1742

January 7

• Birth of Christian Garve; enlightenment philosopher, professor at the University of Leipzig. [37]

January 15

• Birth of Eugene Godecharle composer. [1]

January 26

• Birth of Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers composer. [1]

March 4

• Birth of Johann Heinrich Egli composer. [1]

March 19

• Birth of Zacharias H Alewijn Dutch literary/poet. [1]

April 24

• Birth of Roman Hoffstetter composer. [1]

May 3

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

May 8

• Birth of Johann Baptist Krumpholtz composer. [1]

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 20

• Birth of Pascal Boyer composer. [1]

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]

March 8

• Birth of Bendix Friedrich Zinck composer. [1]

April 13

• Birth of Thomas Jefferson Shadwell Virginia, (Democrat-R) third US President (1801-09). [1]

April 24

• Birth of Edmund Cartwright England, cleric, inventor (power loom). [1]

April 30

• Birth of Robert Jasper van de Capellen master of Marsch/politician. [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]

September 17

• Birth of Marquis de Condorcet France, enlightenment philosopher. [1]

December 1

• Birth of Martin H Klaproth German chemist (uranium). [1]

December 6

• Birth of Franz Nikolaus Novotny composer. [1]

December 29

• Birth of Alexander van Bylandt Dutch military officer. [1]

1744

February 5

• Birth of John Jeffries colonial physician/meteorologist. [1]

February 9

• Birth of Amos Bull composer. [1]

February 21

• Birth of Eise J Eisinga Frisia, built planetarium Franeker. [1]

March 13

• Birth of David Allan Scottish painter. [1]

April 18

• Birth of Pieter 't Hoen Dutch journalist/patriot. [1]

May 3

• Birth of Freidrich Wilhelm Weis composer. [1]

May 4

• Birth of Marianne von Martinez composer. [1]

May 18

• Birth of Joseph Beer Bohemia clarinetist/composer (5th clarinet flap). [1]

May 31

• Birth of Richard Edgeworth writer, Bath. [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 Smith Adams second first lady. [1]

December 8

• Birth of Pierre Joseph Candielle composer. [1]

December 19

• Birth of Jacobus J Cramer priest of Holland/Zealand/West-Friesland. [1]

December 22

• Birth of Abigail Adams Weymouth Massachusetts, second first lady (1797-1801). [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]

January 17

• Birth of Nicolas Roze composer. [1]

February 18

• Birth of Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta physicist/inventor (battery). [1]

February 20

• Birth of Johann Peter Salomon composer. [1]

February 22

• Birth of Joao de Sousa Carvalho composer. [1]

February 27

• Birth of Silverius Muller composer. [1]

March 16

• Birth of Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow composer. [1]

March 19

• Birth of Nicolas Sejan composer. [1]

March 25

• Birth of Nicolas Etienne Framery composer. [1]

April 7

• Birth of Georg Druschetzky composer. [1]

April 20

• Birth of Philippe Pinel physician, founder of psychiatry. [1]

April 29

• Birth of Oliver Ellsworth third Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800). [1]

May 8

• Birth of Carl Philipp Stamitz composer. [1]

September 23

• Birth of John Sevier Tennessee, indian fighter (Governor/Republican-Tennessee). [1]

December 12

• Birth of John Jay diplomat (New York-Governor). [1]

December 24

• Birth of Benjamin Rush Byberry Pennsylvania, physician/general (Continental Army, signed Declaration of Independence). [1]

1746

January 11

• Birth of Frantisek Adam Mica composer. [1]
• Birth of William Curtis English botanist/publisher (Botanical Magazine). [1]

January 12

• Birth of Johann Pestalozzi in Zürich, Switzerland; philosopher of educational reform, writer. [1] [37]

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]

February 27

• Birth of Gian Francesco Fortunati composer. [1]

March 5

• Birth of Jacob Wallenberg Swedish writer/naval chaplain. [1]

March 13

• Birth of Maurus Haberhauer composer. [1]

March 17

• Birth of Jan David Holland composer. [1]

March 27

• Birth of Augustin Ullinger composer. [1]
• 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 13

• Birth of Oliver Brownson composer. [1]

May 19

• Birth of Johann Friedrich Peter composer. [1]

July 16

• Birth of Giuseppe Piazzi discovered first asteroid (Ceres). [1]

July 28

• Birth of Thomas Heyward soldier, signed Declaration of Independence. [1]

October 1

• Birth of John Muhlenberg Lutheran pastor/general/congressman. [1]

October 7

• Birth of William Billings Boston Massachusetts, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon). [1]

November 6

• Birth of Absalom Jones Delaware, born into slavery. [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]

February 17

• Birth of Narciso Casanovas composer. [1]

February 28

• Birth of Justin Morgan composer. [1]

March 3

• Birth of Kasamir Pulaski US General (Revolutionary War). [1]

March 4

• Birth of Casimir Pulaski Count/American Revolutionary War general. [1]

March 31

• Birth of Johann Abraham Peter Schulz German composer (Moon has Risen). [1]

April 23

• Birth of Alexandre-Auguste Robineau composer. [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

January 1

• Birth of Giovanni Furno composer. [1]

January 9

• Birth of Stefan Paluselli composer. [1]

January 22

• Birth of Lewis Edson composer. [1]

January 26

• Birth of Emmanuel Aloys Forster composer. [1]

February 2

• Birth of Christian Gottfried Thomas composer. [1]

February 5

• Birth of Christian Gottlob Neefe German composer/conductor/tutor of Beethoven. [1]

February 15

• Birth of Jeremy Bentham London England, philosopher/originator (Utilitarian). [1]

March 5

• Birth of William Shield composer. [1]

March 8

• Birth of Willem V Batavus prince of Orange-Nassau. [1]

March 10

• Birth of John Playfair Scotland, clergyman/geologist/mathematician. [1]

April 7

• Birth of Georg Wenzel Ritter composer. [1]

April 20

• Birth of Georg Michael Telemann composer. [1]
• Birth of Guillaume Albert Teniers composer. [1]

April 28

• Birth of Lorenz Justinian Ott composer. [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]

December 16

• Birth of Ferdinand-Philippe-Joseph Staes composer. [1]

December 27

• Birth of William Marshall composer. [1]

1749

January 12

• Birth of Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff Austrian earl/prince/diplomat. [1]

January 13

• Birth of Friedrich Müller in Kreuznach, Germany; painter, poet and dramatist. [37]

January 16

• Birth of Vittoria A Alfieri Italian count/poet (Maria Stuarda). [1]

January 19

• Birth of Isaiah Thomas US, printer/editor/publisher/historian. [1]

February 22

• Birth of Johann Nikolaus Forkel musicologist/first biographer of Bach. [1]

March 23

• Birth of Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen composer. [1]
• Birth of Pierre-Simon Laplace mathematician/astronomer/physicist. [1]

March 24

• Birth of Bernard Jumentier composer. [1]

April 13

• Birth of Frederik Sigismund van Bylandt Dutch count/Vice-Admiral. [1]

April 21

• Birth of Johann Michael Malzat composer. [1]

May 5

• Birth of Jean-Frederic Edelmann composer. [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]

December 23

• Birth of Johann Lukas Schubaur composer. [1]