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Thomas Paine
American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)
Edward Gibbon
English historian and politician (1737–1794)
Luigi Galvani
Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
writer and botanist from France (1737-1814)
Phutthayotfa Chulalok
King of Siam (1737–1809)
John Hancock
American Patriot and statesman during the American Revolution (1737–1793)
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
British Prime Minister (1737-1805)
Michael Haydn
Austrian composer, brother of Joseph Haydn, (1737-1806)
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
French agronomist, naturalist, nutritionist, and hygienist; promoter of the potato as a food source in Europe (1737-1813)
Johann Friedrich Struensee
De facto regent of Denmark (1737-1772)
Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov
Russian soldier and statesman (1737–1808)
Princess Augusta of Great Britain
British princess (1737-1813)
Tokugawa Ieharu
Japanese shogun
Morten Thrane Brünnich
Danish zoologist and mineralogist (1737-1827)
Josef Mysliveček
Czech composer
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
American planter and signatory of the Declaration of Independence (1737-1832)
Alexander Dalrymple
British geographer (1737–1808)
Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux
French explorer
Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach
Prince Josias of Coburg
Austrian general
Marie-Louise O'Murphy
mistress (1737-1814)
Suzanne Curchod
French-Swiss salonist and writer (1737-1794)
Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau
French chemist and politician (1737-1816)
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney
British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat (1737-1806)
Princess Louise Marie of France
French Princess, Discalced Carmelite nun and Venerable (1737–1787)
Arthur St. Clair
American soldier and politician (1737-1818)
Jacob Philipp Hackert
German painter (1737–1807)
Ahmed al-Tijani
Algerian Sufi
Francis Hopkinson
American politician, judge, and author 1737-1791
Charles Hutton
English mathematician
Maria Caterina Brignole
Monegasque princess (1737-1813)
Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria
archduchess of Austria, Princess of Bohemia and Hungary
Sophie Caroline Marie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
German noble (1737-1817)
Erik Laxman
Finland Swedish explorer (1737-1796)
John Hunter
Royal Navy officer and governor (1737-1821)
Frances Abington
stage actress
Joseph Hilarius Eckhel
Austrian Jesuit priest and numismatist (1737–1798)
Otto Heinrich von Igelström
Russian general of Baltic German origin (1737-1823)
Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet
Irish botanist (1737–1801)
August Wilhelm Hupel
Baltic German publicist, estophile and linguist (1737-1819)
William Forsyth
Scottish botanist and horticulturist (1737-1804)
Nicolás Fernández de Moratín
Spanish writer
Charlotte de Rohan
French noble (1737-1760)
Miklós Küzmics
Hungarian writer
Pak Chiwŏn
Joseon Dynasty philosopher and writer (1737-1805)
Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg
German poet and playwright (1737–1823)
Alexander Callimachis
Prince of Moldavia
Silas Deane
American politician (1737-1789)
Joseph Pignatelli
Spanish Jesuit priest (1737-1811), led the restoration of the Order
Johann Casimir Häffelin
German cardinal
Anton Losenko
Russian painter and academician who specialised in classical historical subjects and portraits. (1737-1773)
Fanny de Beauharnais
French poet and mother of the politician Claude de Beauharnais
William Maclay
United States Senator from Pennsylvania (1737-1804)
Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour
General in Austrian service (1737-1806)
Yisroel Hopsztajn
Hasidic leader of Poland.
Friedrich Adolf, Count von Kalckreuth
German general
Platon Levshin
Russian bishop (1737-1812)
Ernst Peymann
Danish general
Félix Lecomte
French artist (1737-1817)
José del Castillo
Spanish painter and engraver (1737-1793)