Famous Birthdays for Year 1740

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Birthdays 1 - 41 of 41

Feb 3rd - Guillaume Lasceux, composer
Feb 7th - Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/MP
Feb 12th - Matej Sojka, composer
Feb 15th - Ernst Eichner, composer
Feb 16th - Giambattista Bodoni, Saluzzo Italy, printer/typeface designer (Bodoni)
Feb 17th - Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist
Mar 6th - Giovanni Meli, Siclian poet (Buccolica)
Mar 19th - Johann Georg Roser, composer
Mar 19th - Joseph F Weigl, German/Austrian(?), violin cellist
Mar 24th - John Antes, composer
Apr 2nd - Armand-Gaston Camus, French CEO (Council of 500)
Apr 4th - Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer
Apr 18th - Francis Baring, banker/merchant
May 2nd - Elias Boudinot, lawyer/patriot, found American Biblical Society
May 7th - Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)
May 9th - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville)
Jun 2nd - Marquis de Sade, 1st known sadist/writer (Justine)
Jun 8th - Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer
Jun 11th - Luigi Gatti, composer
Jun 18th - Karel van Poucke, Flemish sculptor
Jun 21st - Hendrik van Wijn, Dutch archivist (Algemeen Rijksarchief)
Jul 27th - Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
Aug 10th - Samuel Arnold, composer
Aug 14th - Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], bishop of Imola/Pope (1800-23)
Aug 15th - Matthias Claudius, German poet (d. 1815)
Aug 23rd - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia 1740-41)
Aug 26th - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (ballooning)
Sep 7th - Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor (d. 1814)
Sep 12th - Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817)
Sep 23rd - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
Oct 8th - Michel-Julien Mathieu, composer
Oct 14th - Joannes Siberg, Dutch governor-general of Neth Indies (1801-05)
Oct 20th - Belle van Zuylen, Neth/Swiss writer (Three Women)
Oct 26th - Ernest Louis Muller, composer
Oct 29th - James Boswell, Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer
Oct 31st - William Paca, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
Nov 4th - Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn "Rock of Ages" (d. 1778)
Nov 14th - Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven's father and first teacher (d. 1792)
Nov 24th - John Bacon, English sculptor
Dec 13th - Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer
Dec 30th - Princess Elizabeth Caroline of Wales (d. 1759)


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