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Madame de Pompadour
chief mistress of Louis XV of France (1721-1764)
Tobias Smollett
18th-century poet and author from Scotland
Roger Sherman
early American lawyer and politician, Founding Father of the United States (1721–1793)
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
British Army general; (1721-1765)
Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz
German general
Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes
French statesman (1721-1794)
Johann Kirnberger
German composer
Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken
German noble (1721-1774)
Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
German general (1721–1792)
William Robertson
British historian, minister of religion, and principal of the University of Edinburgh (1721-1793)
Benjamin Wilson
British painter and scientist (1721-1788)
Peyton Randolph
president of the first Continental Congress (1721-1775)
William Collins
English poet, born 1721
Mark Akenside
English poet and physician
Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach
German countess
Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano
Italian prince
Frederick Christian I of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1721-1794)
Joseph de Guignes
French academic
Fredrik Henrik af Chapman
Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (1721-1808)
Samuel von Brukenthal
Habsburg governor
Anna Dorothea Therbusch
painter from Prussia (1721-1782)
Francesco Sabatini
Italian architect
John Manners, Marquess of Granby
British soldier and politician (1721-1770)
Pyotr Panin
Russian general
Johann Nikolaus Götz
German poet (1721–1781)
Henry Seymour Conway
Irish politician; (1721-1795)
John Frederick, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1721-1767)
Pieter Cramer
Dutch merchant and entomologist (1721–1776)
Pierre Jaquet-Droz
watchmaker from the Principality of Neuchâtel(1721-1790)
Edmund Pendleton
American politician (1721-1803)
François Hemsterhuis
Dutch philosopher (1721-1790)
Khwaja Mir Dard
Urdu writer
Philipp Friedrich Gmelin
German professor of botany and chemistry (1721-1768)
John Mudge
British doctor
John Hanson
American merchant and public official (1721-1783)
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford
British politician (1721-1803)
Thérèse Levasseur
partner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1721-1801)
Jean-François Oeben
German master cabinetmaker specialized in marquetry having worked in Paris (1721-1763)
Elizabeth Pierrepont, Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull
English courtier
Charles-Louis Clérisseau
French architectural draughtsman, antiquary and artist (1721-1820)
Charles Marie Raymond, Prince and 5th Duke of Arenberg
Austrian Field Marchal (1721-1778)
Johann de Kalb
American general (1721-1780)
James Murray
British soldier
Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni
Italian painter (1721-1782)
Giovanni Battista Bussi de Pretis
Catholic cardinal
Pierre Victor, baron de Besenval de Brünstatt
French soldier
Joan Crespí
Franciscan missionary and explorer of Las Californias
Marcantonio Marcolini
Italian cardinal
Bernardino Giraud
Catholic cardinal
Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn
Russian diplomat (1721-1793)
Christian Heinrich Heineken
German child prodigy
Pieter Hellendaal
Dutch organist, violinist and composer
Domenico Corvi
Italian painter (1721-1803)
John McKinly
American politician (1721-1796)
Préville
actor (1721-1799)
Pierre Van Cortlandt
American politician (1721–1814); first Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York
Quirino Gasparini
Italian composer
Henry Ellis
Irish colonial governor of Georgia and Nova Scotia
François Arnaud
French clergyman, writer and philologist
Filippo Maria Visconti
Archbishop of Milan