Events
Ongoing events
Births
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January 25 - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher
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February 13 - Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist
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February 19 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian classical music performer (d. 1805)
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February 23 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)
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March 4 - Johann David Wyss, Swiss author (d. 1818)
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April 13 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
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May 17 - Seth Warner American revolutionary hero
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August 26 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist
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September 11 - Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish painter
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September 17 - Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist
- José Fernando de Abascal , Spanish viceroy of Peru
Deaths