1738 births

German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)

George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with George as its king. He was concurrently duke and prince-elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the first monarch of the House of Hanover who was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.

jurist, philosopher and politician from Italy (1738-1794)

British general, colonial official, diplomat (1738–1805)

British naval officer and first Governor of New South Wales (1738-1814)

French physician (1738-1814)

British politician and prime minister (1738–1809)

American painter (1738-1815)

German philosopher, mathematician and writer (1738–1766)

(1738-1789)

18th- and 19th-century English painter (1738–1820)

American general, writer and philosopher (1738–1789)

French physician, zoologist and botanist (1738–1800)

French priest and poet (1738-1813)

Duke of Teschen from 1766 to 1822 (1738–1822)

German physician and botanist (1736-1808)

Irish-born soldier in the British Army, later in the American Continental Army (1738–1775)

Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Dutch writer

French general (1738-1794)

Austrian composer

Russian architect

French philosopher and artist (1738-1810)

4th Governor of Virginia 1738-1789

American businessman and politician 1738-1796

Prussian princess (1738-1820)

Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1803-1806), Duke of Nassau (1806-1816)

sculptor from France (1738–1814)

French surgeon

Panchen Lama

Italian entomologist (1738-1804)

Armenian historian (1738-1823)

Austrian botanist (1738-1807)

German noble woman

French noblewoman (1738-1806)

British politician and statesman (1738-1786)

Spanish general and viceroy of New Spain

German philologist and controversialist (1738-1771)

Russian officer

Catholic cardinal (1738-1821)

French statesman and writer (1738-1815)

Qing dynasty historian, writer and philosopher

British satirist and physician; his pseudonym was Peter Pindar

Austrian Empire general

third wife of Erekle II, Queen of Georgia

British publisher; founder of The Times newspaper of London (1738-1812)

Polish bishop and writer (1738-1794)

German writer and noble (1738-1817)

London bookseller and publisher (1738-1809)

Scottish nurseryman and botanist (1738-1822)

Italian composer

French painter of natural history (1738-1805)

Danish courtier (1738-1772)

Russian nobleman, memoirust and agriculturalist (1738-1833)

Czech composer and organist

German actress

thumb|Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla) at his work table, from the Cours théorique et pratique du livre de Thot (1790). Etteilla, the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette (1 March 1738 – 12 December 1791), was the French occultist and tarot-researcher, who was the first to develop an interpretation concept for the tarot cards and made a significant contribution to the esoteric development of the tarot cards to a wide audience (from 1783), and therefore the first professional tarot occultist known to history who made his living by card divination. Etteilla also influenced the French divination

Martyred Archbishop of Arles (1738-1792)

Polish noble (1738–1781)

Russian diplomat (1734-1803)