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Giacomo Casanova

Venetian adventurer and writer (1725–1798)

27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1774–1789)

British military officer and East India Company official (1725-1774)

Corsican leader (1725–1807)

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

French inventor (1725–1804)

Anglican clergyman, slave trader and abolitionist (1725–1807)

Ahmad Shah Bahadur

13th Mughal Emperor from 1748 to 1754

Pyotr Rumyantsev

Field Marshal of Russia (1725-1796)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

French painter (1725 – 1805)

American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (1725-1792)

English radical, journalist, and politician (1725–1797)

120th, and the last, Doge of Venice

Jean-Baptiste Donatiede Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau

French noble (1725–1807)

Ahilyabai Holkar

queen of Indore

Arthur Guinness

Arthur Guinness was an Irish brewer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. The inventor of Guinness stout, he founded the Guinness Brewery at St. James's Gate in 1759.

Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans

French royal (1725–1785)

Henry Benedict Stuart

Catholic cardinal

Jean-Étienne Montucla

French mathematician (*1725 – †1799)

Guillaume Le Gentil

French astronomer

Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller

German zoologist (1725–1776)

Joseph-Siffred Duplessis

French painter (1725-1802)

Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre

French duke; grandson of Louis XIV (1725–1793)

British entomologist (1724-1803)

Franz Moritz von Lacy

Austrian field marshal (1725-1801)

Louis, Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

German royal (1725–1778)

Karl Wilhelm Ramler

Charles Townshend

British politician; (1725-1767)

lawyer in colonial Massachusetts (1725-1783)

Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa

Russian politician, diplomat and military personnel (1725-1811)

Johann Salomo Semler

German theologian (1725-1791)

Johann Peter Beaulieu

Walloon military officer (1725–1819)

Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg

Prussian politician (1725-1795)

Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc

Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

German sculptor and woodcarver (1725–1775)

Ferdinando Bertoni

Italian composer and organist (1725–1813)

Countess Palatine Christiane Henriette of Zweibrücken

Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont

farmer, surveyor, and jurist from the Province of Pennsylvania (1725-1777)

Konstantin von Benckendorff

Baltic German general and diplomat (1785-1828)

William Duesbury

British entrepreneur, founder of the Royal Crown Derby factory (1725-1786)

Antoine Court de Gébelin

French writer and scholar

Nicolas Desmarest

French geologist

Giuseppe Garampi

Catholic cardinal

Theresa Benedicta of Bavaria

German princess

Theresa Concordia Mengs

German artist (1725-1806)

Danish artist (1725-1776)

Jean-Jacques Caffieri

French artist (1725–1792)

First Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor, briefly acting governor (1725-1788)

Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch

German theologian

Robert Bakewell

British agriculturalist (1725–1795)

Anna Maria Rückerschöld

Swedish author (1725-1805)

Jean-Baptiste Réveillon

French wallpaper manufacturer (1725–1811)

Étienne Louis Geoffroy

French entomologist (1725–1810)

Polynesian navigator

Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel

Royal Navy admiral (1725-1786)

William Alexander

Continental Army general (1726-1783)

Luigi Valenti Gonzaga

Catholic cardinal (1725-1808)

Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne

Francesco Milizia

Italian art historian and architect