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1742 births

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head of the Catholic Church, ruler of the Papal States from 1800 to 1823 (1742–1823)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

German scientist and satirist (1742-1799)

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Swedish German chemist who discovered oxygen

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher

Prussian field marshal (1742–1819)

Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar

founder of the Qajar Dynasty (1796–1797)

Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen

Duchess of Teschen

Nathanael Greene

American general in the American Revolutionary War (1742-1786)

Nicolas Leblanc

Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart

German biologist (1742-1795)

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

French soldier and political figure who rose to the rank of Marshal of France (1742-1819)

Justice on the US Supreme Court (1742-1798)

Félix de Azara

Spanish scientist (1742-1821)

Charlotte von Stein

lady-in-waiting at the court in Weimar; close friend to both Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johan Herman Wessel

Norwegian-Danish writer

François Laurent d'Arlandes

French marquis (1742-1809)

Anders Jahan Retzius

Swedish naturalist and professor of botany, chemist, and natural history, Lund University (1742-1821)

Czech mineralogist and nobleman (1742-1791)

Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper

German biologist (1742-1810)

Genevan botanist

English geographer, historian and oceanographer (1742–1830)

Charles-François Dupuis

French scholar, scientist and politician (1742-1809)

Jean Baptiste Treilhard

French judge and diplomat (1742-1810)

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville

Scottish advocate and politician (1742-1811)

English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus"

Alexander Ablesimov

Opera librettist, poet, dramatist, satirist, journalist

British artist (1742-1821)

American politician (1742-1790)

Ignacio Jordan de Asso del Rio

Spanish diplomat, naturalist, lawyer, historian, university teacher and director of the Saragossa botanical garden (1742 – 1814)

Franciszka Corvin-Krasińska

Polish noble (1742-1796)

Friedrich von Wurmb

German botanist (1742-1781)

Christian Garve

German Enlightenment philosopher

Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz

Czech harpist and composer (1742-1790)

American politician (1742-1829)

Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland

British Army general (1742-1817)

English Romantic poet (1742-1809)

Joseph Philippe de Clairville

Swiss entomologist (1742-1830)

Roman Hoffstetter

Classical composer and Benedictine monk (1742-1815)

José Mariano de Conceição Vellozo

Brazilian botanist (1742-1811)

French ballet dancer and choreographer

Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld

German author (1742–1792)

Maria Carolina Wolf

Arthur Middleton

American politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence (1742-1787)

historical Indian statesman

Antonio de Olaguer y Feliú

Viceroy of the Río de la Plata, Montevideo governor and secretary of state and war office of King Charles IV. (1742-1813)

British landscape painter (1742-1803)

French ballerina (1742-1802)

Duke Ernest Gottlob of Mecklenburg

German duke (1742-1814)

Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard

French abbé and instructor of the deaf

Johann Christoph Brotze

Baltic German artist and scholar (1742-1823)

Antoine-Adrien Lamourette

French politician

British artist (1742-1810)

Antonio de Capmany y Montpalau

Spanish historian

Antonio José Amar y Borbón

Spanish military/colonial officer

Bon-Joseph Dacier

French historian, philologist and translator from ancient Greek (1742-1833)

José de Iturrigaray

Viceroy of New Spain (1742-1815)

José Manuel de Ezpeleta, 1st Count of Ezpeleta de Beire

Viceroy of New Granada

Spanish painter (1742-1812)

Charles Albert II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst

German Prince (1742-1796)

British poet (1742-1821)