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François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire (, ; ), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially of the Catholic Church) and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.

François Quesnay

French economist

Prime Minister of Great Britain; (1695-1754)

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

18th-century British statesman and man of letters; (1694-1773)

Francis Hutcheson

Scottish philosopher (1694–1746)

Yeongjo of Joseon

21st King of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history

Italian composer

Swedish chemist and mineralogist

Louis-Claude Daquin

French composer

Hermann Samuel Reimarus

German philosopher

Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Grand Duchess of Russia (1694-1715)

Paul of the Cross

Italian mystic (1694-1775)

English naturalist and ornithologist (1694 – 1773)

Theodore of Corsica

German noble (1694–1756)

Augustine Washington

(1694-1743) British-American planter, slave owner, and the father of George Washington

Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

German prince and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Köthen

Johan Helmich Roman

Swedish Baroque composer (1694-1758)

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington

English noble (1694-1753)

Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach

Heir apparent of Neuburg, Sulzbach and the Palatinate

René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson

French statesman (1694-1757)

Abdallah of Morocco

Sultan of Morocco six times from 1729 to 1757

Hans Adolph Brorson

Danish bishop (1694-1764)

Austrian painter (1694-1757)

Charles-Antoine Coypel

French painter, art commentator, and playwright (1694-1752)

Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui

Genevan legal and political theorist

Christiane Charlotte of Württemberg-Winnental

Peter Collinson

English botanist (1694-1768)

18th c. Venetian senator and poet

Bartolomeo Altomonte

Austrian artist (1694–1783)

Ahmad bin Said Al Busaidi

Iman of Oman, first ruler from the Al Bu Said dynasty

William Shirley

British governor of Massachusetts and then of the Bahamas (1694-1771)

Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

Danish politician (1694-1763)

Irish-born soldier, diplomat and minister in the Spanish service (1694-1777)

Simon Henry Adolph, Count of Lippe-Detmold

Count of Lippe-Detmold (1694-1734)

Theophilus Siegfried Bayer

German sinologist

British engraver (1694–1767)

Pierre-Jean Mariette

French art historian (1694–1774)

Lord George Murray

Scottish Jacobite general

John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower

British politician (1694-1754)

Rafał Chyliński

Polish presbyter

Giuseppe Spinelli

Catholic cardinal (1694-1763)

British artist (1694–1739)

Alexander Buturlin

Russian general and courtier (1694-1767)

Antonín Reichenauer

Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle

English noble and politician (1694-1758)

Christian Gottlieb Jöcher

German lexicographer

Antal Grassalkovich I.

Hungarian noble (1694-1771)

Tsarevna Praskovya Ivanovna of Russia

daughter of Tsar Ivan V of Russia

British cleric and traveller; (1694-1751)

Vincenzo Meucci

Italian painter (1694-1766)

Russian explorer (1694-1724)

Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein

Czech noblewoman (1694-1772)

Louis de Boissy

French writer (1694-1758)

Johann Daniel Schöpflin

German historian

John Michael Rysbrack

Flemish sculptor (1694-1770)

Louis II of Melun, Duke of Joyeuse

Duke of Joyeuse

Karl Heinrich von Hoym

Diplomat, art collector and bibliophile from Saxony (1694-1736)

Samuel Whittemore

Oldest soldier in the American Revolution

Henry Pemberton