1740s births

leader of a Russian peasant uprising (1742–1775)

leader of a large Andean uprising against the Spanish in Peru (1738-1781)

Dutch diplomat (1745 - 1812)

Andrianampoinimerina () (c. 1745–1810) ruled the Kingdom of Imerina on Madagascar from 1787 until his death. His reign was marked by the reunification of Imerina following 77 years of civil war, and the subsequent expansion of his kingdom into neighboring territories, thereby initiating the unification of Madagascar under Merina rule. Andrianampoinimerina is a cultural hero and holds near mythic status among the Merina people, and is considered one of the greatest military and political leaders in the history of Madagascar.

Ukrainian composer

Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1805

early founder of Chicago

discoverer of tellurium

Scottish architect (1745–1812)

Scottish botanical illustrator (1745-1771)

American politician

Welsh author and salon-holder (1741-1821)

Khan of Ganja

Pretender to the Russian throne

Russian playwright

English ironmaster

American botanist (c. 1740 - 1789)

American former slave and abolitionist

Chief of the Miami people (c. 1747 – July 14, 1812)

Polish rabbi

founder of the British colony on Penang in 1786

Russian general of Baltic German origin (1744-1825)

Russian composer

Italian soprano

American politician

War chief of the Shawnee people (c. 1743 – c. 1810)

Russian philosopher

Zaporizhian Cossack and leader of the Koliivshchyna rebellion

German chemist

Indian-Afghan empress

Slave concubine of Sultan Mustafa III

Italian composer

Royal Navy officer (1742–1815)

Irish-born American Catholic bishop

British physician and naturalist

Lithuanian architect

Greek scholar, Prussian diplomat

Khan of Kokand from 1764–1801

British composer

former slave from the French West Indies who became a member of the National Convention and the Council of Five Hundred of France

Slovenian writer

Russian explorer

Swedish writer

Japanese painter (1748-1822)

Irish physician, lawyer, and statesman who lived in Hillsborough, North Carolina (1747-1783)

Irish musician

Irish poet

Italian artist (1745-1823)

American politician (1746-1788)

Gigar (; – 26 November 1832) was Emperor of Ethiopia intermittently between 1821 and 1830, and purportedly a member of the Solomonic dynasty.

British bookseller and printer

French composer

German painter (1745-1792)

last khan of the Erivan Khanate

German opera singer

enslaved man

American politician (1749-1802)

Polish rabbi

Austrian sculptor (1746-1822)

United States author, historian and surveyor