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James Hutton
Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist; (1726-1797)
François-André Danican Philidor
French composer and chess player (1726-1795)
Vittorio Amadeo III of Sardinia
King of Sardinia (1773-1796)
Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain
Dauphine of France (1726-1746)
Thomas Pennant
Welsh naturalist (1726-1798)
Franz Joseph I of Liechtenstein
8th Prince of Liechtenstein 1772–1781 (1726–1781)
Louise Henriette de Bourbon
Duchess of Orléans (1726–1759)
Charles Burney
English music historian (1726-1814)
Prince Heinrich of Prussia
Prince of Prussia (1726-1802)
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe
Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet
Jacob Frank
Polish-Jewish religious leader
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
German painter and printmaker (1726-1801)
Benjamin Harrison V
American planter and merchant (1726-1791)
Princess Louise of Denmark
Duchess consort of Saxe-Hildburghausen
Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este
Grandmother of Louis-Philippe of France (1726-1754)
Gerard Majella
Italian Redemptorist lay brother and saint (1729-1755)
Alexander Kokorinov
Russian architect (1726-1772)
Alexander Ypsilantis
Greek Voivode of Wallachia and of Moldavia
Vasily Chichagov
Russian admiral (1726–1809)
George Wythe
first American law professor, a noted classics scholar, a Founding Father of the United States and a Virginia judge
Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel
Prussian princess
Jovan Rajić
Serbian theologian, writer, historian (1726–1801)
Katsukawa Shunshō
Japanese artist (1726-1793)
Eggert Ólafsson
Icelandic writer and explorer (1726-1768)
Louise d'Épinay
French writer
Christian Felix Weiße
German writer and pedagogue (1726–1804)
Oliver Wolcott
American politician, Connecticut (1726-1797)
Gabriel François Doyen
French painter (1726-1806)
James Bowdoin
American leader during the American Revolution (1726-1790)
William Prescott
Continental army soldier (1726-1795)
Francesco Cetti
Italian scientist
Abraham Clark
American politician (1726-1794)
Christian Albert, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg from 1765 to 1789
John Howard
English prison reformer and philanthropist (1726-1790)
Johann Rall
German colonel in North America
John Berkenhout
British physician, naturalist and writer
Joannes-Henricus de Franckenberg
Catholic cardinal (1726-1804)
William, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal
Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal (1726-1810)
Zaharije Orfelin
Serbian writer and historian
Friedrich von der Trenck
Prussian army officer, adventurer, and author (1726-1794)
Lewis Morris
American landowner and developer from Morrisania, New York (1726-1798), Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Anna Blackburne
english naturalist and patroness of natural history (1726–1793)
Francis Cotes
British artist (1726-1770)
John Walsh
scientist and politician from England born in 1726
Ignacy Jakub Massalski
Catholic bishop
Le Quy Don
Vietnamese writer (1726–1784)
John Anderson
scientist, philosopher, and educator of the Scottish Enlightenment; (1726-1796)
Joseph de Ferraris
Austrian cartographer (1726–1814)
Esma Sultan
Ottoman princess, daughter of Ahmed III
Patrick Russell
Scottish surgeon and naturalist in India (1726-1805)
Hans Strøm
Norwegian priest, naturalist (1726-1797)
Françoise Duparc
18th century French portrait painter from Marseille (1726–1778)
Sahib II Giray
khan of Crimea from 1771 to 1775
Pinchas of Koretz
Polish rabbi
François-Thomas Germain
French silversmith (1726–1791)
Angelo Maria Bandini
Italian writer
Antonio Zucchi
Italian painter (1726-1795)
Joseph Emin
Armenian prose writer, public figure (1726-1809)
Andrew Bell
Scottish engraver and printer (1726–1809)
José Clavijo y Fajardo
Spanish naturalist, journalist and publicist (1726-1806)