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Charles Victor de Bonstetten

Swiss writer (1745–1832)

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Ngô Thì Nhậm

Vietnamese Buddhist monk and writer

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John Whitehead (physician)
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James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie

British politician (1747–1818)

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Joseph Collyer

British engraver (1748–1827)

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Peter Hunter (British Army officer)

Canadian British colonial administrator

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William Neville Hart

British banker, politician and diplomat

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Alexander Bezborodko

Russian statesman (1747–1799)

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Juan Ignacio Molina

Chilean priest, historian, and naturalist

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Lord Charles Montagu
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Namiki Gohei I

Japanese Writer

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William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby

Irish and British politician (1744–1806)

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Robert Alves

Scottish poet and writer

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Robert Beatson
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Robert Robertson (physician)

British surgeon

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Roque López
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Rosalie Duthé

French courtesan

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Takayama Hikokurō

Samurai and historian

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Seweryn Rzewuski

Polish nobleman and writer (1743–1811)

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Heinrich Christian Boie

German writer (1744–1806)

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Johann Hieronymus Schröter

German astronomer (1745–1816)

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John Bacon (sculptor, born 1740)

British sculptor (1740–1799)

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Giuseppe Piazzi

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

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Nathan Bailey

British lexicographer and philologist (died 1742)

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Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann

German-born Danish politician, businessman and philanthropist

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Arthur Young (agriculturist)

English writer on agriculture (1741–1820)

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Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet

English aristocrat, merchant, banker, politician

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Charles Molyneux, 1st Earl of Sefton

British politician (1748–1795)

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Gottfried August Bürger

18th-century German poet (1747–1794)

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Samuel Chase

Founding Father of the United States (1741–1811)

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Timothy Dexter

American businessman and author (1747–1806)

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Pope Pius VII

Head of the Catholic Church from 1800 to 1823

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Thomas Powys (priest)
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John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute

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

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John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich

British peer and Tory politician

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Thomas Mifflin

American politician and Founding Father (1744–1800)

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William Foster (bishop)
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Diego de Borica

Basque soldier

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Maria Kristina Kiellström

Swedish silk worker

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Martha Ray

British singer

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Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (born 1743)

Austrian archduchess and abbess (1743–1808)

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Adolph, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld from 1777 to 1803

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Alexander Cameron (bishop)

Scottish bishop (1747–1828)

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Avraham Yehoshua Heshel

Polish rabbi (1748–1825)

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Balthasar Anton Dunker

German artist (1746–1807)

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Basílio da Gama
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Christina Johansdotter

Swedish murderer

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Benjamin Vulliamy

British clockmaker

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Benjamin Willard

Massachusetts clockmaker

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Jeanne Baret

French explorer, naturalist, botanist (1740–1807)

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