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Augustus Toplady
British hymn writer, Anglican cleric (1740–1778)
Thomas Bugge
Danish astronomer (1740-1815)
Jean-Louis de Lolme
Genevan and English political theorist and writer on constitutional matters
Charles Hall
British physician, social critic and Ricardian socialist (1740~-1820~)
Nicholas Pocock
British artist (1740-1821)
Pierre Victor, baron Malouet
French baron (1740-1814)
Manuel Bayeu
Spanish painter (1740-1809)
Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux
French general (1740-1817)
Fedot Ivanovich Shubin
Russian sculptor (1740-1805)
John Cartwright
English naval officer and political reformer
Antoine Vestier
French painter (1740-1824)
Ernst Eichner
German musician
Gaspare Pacchierotti
Italian opera singer
Charles O'Hara
British Army general
Thomas Percival
British physician (1740-1804)
Nicola Spedalieri
Italian priest, theologian, and philosopher (1740-1795)
Arthur Lee
American politician
John Frere
British anthroplogist, archaeologist and politician (1740–1807)
Johann Georg Heinrich Feder
German philosopher (1740-1821)
Jeronimo de Bosch
Dutch Latin scholar, poet & art collector (1740-1811), owner/creator of the album amicorum of Jeronimo de Bosch (1740–1811)
Giovanni Battista Rezzonico
Italian cardinal
Philip Francis
British politician (1740–1818)
Balthazar Georges Sage
French chemist and mineralogist (1740-1824)
Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton
Scottish peer and politician (1740-1819)
Christoph Christian Sturm
author
Samuel Webbe
English composer
William Bolts
British whistleblower
Outey II
king of Cambodia
Antonio Ludeña
Spanish Jesuit mathematician (1740-1820)
Étienne Polverel
French revolutionary and trustee of the Estates of Navarre
Jacques-Noël Sané
French naval engineer (1740–1831)
Lluís Jaume Vallespir
Spanish missionary
William Smellie
Scottish master printer, naturalist, antiquary, editor and encyclopedist (1740-1795)
Jacques Bernard d'Anselme
French general, notable as the first commander of the Army of the Var (1740–1814)
Joseph Franz Weigl
Austrian cellist
Nicola Chetta
Italian poet
Thorkild Fjeldsted
Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1741-1796)
Giuseppe Jannaconi
Italian composer
William Marlow
English artist (1740-1813)
John Hamilton Mortimer
British artist (1740-1779)
John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe
Scottish duke
Jacques Philippe Martin Cels
French horticulturalist (1740–1806)
Prince Johann Adolph of Nassau-Usingen
Major-General in the French army and Lieutenant-General in the Prussian army (1740-1793)
Jacob ben Wolf Kranz
Jewish preacher
Niklaus Franz von Bachmann
Swiss general
Johann Friedrich Hartknoch
German publisher (1740–1789)
Daniel Houghton
Irish explorer
Walter Livingston
American politician (1740–1797)
Margaret Bingham
British painter and writer (1740–1814)
Jean-André Venel
Swiss orthopaedist (1740-1791)
Marinus Willett
American mayor
Anton Felkel
Austrian mathematician
Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans
British Duke (1740-1802)
André-Joseph Lafitte-Clavé
French Army officer (1740–1794)
Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire
French military officer (1740-1792)
Luis Galiana y Cervera
theologian
Jacob More
British artist (1740-1793)
Ferdinand Kobell
German artist (1740-1799)
Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood
British politician and peer
Abner Nash
American politician (1740-1786)