Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer and polymath
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Edward Jenner
English physician
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French polymath
Christian VII
King of Denmark and Norway from 1766 to 1808
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
French writer, orator and statesman
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Italian librettist, professor, and Roman Catholic priest
Nicolas Appert
French confectioner and inventor
Charles James Fox
British statesman
Yolande de Polastron
French aristocrat and courtier
Domenico Cimarosa
Italian composer
Vittorio Alfieri
Italian playwright and poet
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
French miniaturist and portrait painter
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- 1749–1800Edward RutledgeAmerican Founding Father and politicianNovember 23
- 1749–1819Daniel RutherfordBritish chemist and botanistNovember 3
- 1749–1800William BlountAmerican politician, landowner and Founding FatherMarch 26
- 1749–1822Jean Baptiste Joseph DelambreFrench mathematician and astronomerSeptember 19
- 1749–1820Levi Lincoln Sr.American revolutionary, lawyer and statesmanMay 15
- 1749–1779Thomas Lynch Jr.Founding Father, signed U.S. Declaration of IndependenceAugust 5
- 1749–1814Georg Joseph VoglerGerman composer, organist, teacher and theoristJune 15
- 1749–1818Johann Nikolaus ForkelGerman musicologistFebruary 22
- 1749–1822James GarrardAmerican politicianJanuary 14
- 1749–1825Maler MüllerGerman painterJanuary 13
- 1749–1802Erik Magnus Staël von HolsteinSwedish diplomat, soldier and courtierOctober 25
- 1749–1794Jean-Frédéric EdelmannFrench composerMay 5
- 1749–1815Cornelis van der AaDutch writer and booksellerOctober 22