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Months in Year 1759: January February March April May June July August September October November

Birthdays 1 - 42 of 42

Jan 4th - Maria Rosa Coccia, composer
Jan 5th - Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader
Jan 17th - Paul Cuffe, Mass, merchant/shipbuilder/black nationalist
Jan 21st - Johan Valckenaer, Dutch politician/patriot
Jan 25th - Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne), (d. 1796)
Jan 31st - Francois Devienne, composer
Feb 15th - Friedrich A Wolfius, [Wolf], German philological (Prolegomena)
Feb 27th - Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer
Mar 2nd - Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer
Mar 22nd - Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)
Apr 18th - Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr, composer
Apr 27th - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, England, writer/feminist (Female Reader)
May 1st - Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor
May 6th - Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician
May 15th - Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer
May 18th - Charles Duquesnoy, composer
May 20th - William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Wash DC)
May 22nd - Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer
May 23rd - Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer
Poet Robert Burns (Jan 25th) May 26th - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, writer/mother of Mary Shelley
May 28th - William Pitt, the Younger (C), English PM (1783-1801, 1804-06)
Jun 2nd - Jan Ekels, the Young, Dutch painter
Jun 5th - Theodor Zwetler, composer
Jun 8th - Thomas Dunham Whitaker, Rainham Norfolk UK, topographer
Jun 21st - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
Jul 10th - Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer
Jul 19th - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
Jul 24th - Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21)
Aug 24th - William Wilberforce, British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade
Sep 19th - William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)
Sep 26th - Hans D L earl Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian fieldmarshal/gov-gen
Oct 4th - Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803)
Oct 12th - Frantisek Vaclav Tomes, composer
Oct 13th - Ecco Epkema, Dutch linguist (Frisian, old-Frisian)
Oct 20th - Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815)
Oct 25th - Baron Grenville, (Whig) British PM (1806-07)
Oct 25th - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (d. 1828)
Oct 26th - Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader/min of Justice
Nov 10th - Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy) (d. 1805)
Nov 13th - Timothy Olmstead, composer
Nov 20th - Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall, composer
Nov 27th - Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer

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