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1741 births

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Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790

Nicolas Chamfort

French journalist and moralistic author

Peter Simon Pallas

German zoologist and botanist (1741–1811)

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

French novelist, official and army general (1741–1803)

Angelica Kauffmann

Swiss artist (1741–1807)

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Swiss poet (1741-1801)

Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse

French Navy officer and explorer (1741–1788)

Swiss born British painter, draughtsman and writer on art (1741–1825)

Benedict Arnold

army officer who betrayed America to the British during the Revolutionary War (1740–1801)

composer from present-day Belgium (1741–1813)

emperor of Japan

Jean-Antoine Houdon

French artist (1741–1828)

Princess Isabella of Parma

Archduchess of Austria

Carl Linnaeus the Younger

Swedish botanist (1741–1783)

English writer (1741-1820)

Charles Willson Peale

American painter (1741–1827)

Italian composer (1741-1801)

William Withering

English scientist (1741-1799)

Karl II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1741-1816)

Franciszek Karpiński

Polish poet (1741-1825)

Johann Gottlieb Naumann

German composer (1741–1801)

vagabundo de los 7 mares

Johann Jakob Engel

German philosopher (1741-1802)

Dutch writer (1741-1804)

Russian general (1741-1820)

American lawyer and politician, signatory of the Declaration of Independence (1741–1811)

American politician and Founding Father (1741-1819)

Augustin Barruel

French publicist and Jesuit priest (1741–1820)

Thomas Fitzsimons

American politician (1741-1811)

Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder

German writer (1741-1796)

author, editor; (1741-1810); married, in 1762, James Trimmer, of Brentford

Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain

British princess

American doctor (1741-1775)

Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond

French geologist

Pigneau de Behaine

French missionary (1741-1799)

Irish Shakespearean scholar and editor (1741-1812)

Jean-Paul-Égide Martini

German composer

Carl Hindenburg

German mathematician (1741-1808)

Benedetto, Prince of Savoy

Duke of Chablais

Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert

French politician and botanist (1741–1814)

Irish painter (1741–1806)

Johann Heinrich Merck

Jacques de Maleville

French jurist-consultant and politician

German theologian and writer

Cristfried Ganander

Finnish academic

Gottlieb Stephanie

Austrian opera librettist (1741-1800)

Italian writer, naturalist and cartographer (1741-1803)

Jean-Pierre Duport

Antoine-François Callet

French painter (1741-1823)

Gregorio García de la Cuesta

Spanish general and noble (1741-1811)

English mathematician (1741-1793)

Paul Dietrich Giseke

German botanist, physician, teacher and librarian (1741-1796)

Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz

Prussian historian

Alexander Kucharsky

Polish painter (1741-1819)

signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation

Scipione de' Ricci

bishop of Pistoia from 1780 to 1791

Czech violinist and composer

German composer and music publisher

British Royal Navy officer

American politician (1741-1813)