people/1740s

Swiss writer (1745–1832)

Vietnamese Buddhist monk and writer

British politician (1747–1818)

British engraver (1748–1827)

Canadian British colonial administrator

British banker, politician and diplomat

Russian statesman (1747–1799)

Chilean priest, historian, and naturalist

Japanese Writer

Irish and British politician (1744–1806)

Scottish poet and writer

British surgeon

French courtesan

Samurai and historian

Polish nobleman and writer (1743–1811)

German writer (1744–1806)

German astronomer (1745–1816)

British sculptor (1740–1799)

Italian Catholic priest, mathematician and astronomer (1746–1826)

British lexicographer and philologist (died 1742)

German-born Danish politician, businessman and philanthropist

English writer on agriculture (1741–1820)

English aristocrat, merchant, banker, politician

British politician (1748–1795)

18th-century German poet (1747–1794)

Founding Father of the United States (1741–1811)

American businessman and author (1747–1806)

Head of the Catholic Church from 1800 to 1823

British peer, coalfield owner, diplomat and politician (1744–1814)

British peer and Tory politician

American politician and Founding Father (1744–1800)

Basque soldier

Swedish silk worker

British singer

Austrian archduchess and abbess (1743–1808)

Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld from 1777 to 1803

Scottish bishop (1747–1828)

Polish rabbi (1748–1825)

German artist (1746–1807)

Swedish murderer

British clockmaker

Massachusetts clockmaker

French explorer, naturalist, botanist (1740–1807)