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Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette was Queen of France as the wife of Louis XVI from 10 May 1774 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1792. She was beheaded in 1793, during the Reign of Terror, a period of political violence in the French Revolution.

Louis XVIII of France

King of France and Navarre from 1815 to 1824 (1755-1824)

Samuel Hahnemann

German physician known for creating homeopathy

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

French portrait painter (1755–1842)

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

French lawyer, politician and writer (1755-1826)

chief justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835, (1755-1835)

Welsh actress (1755-1831)

Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras

French politician (1755-1829)

Jan Henryk Dąbrowski

Polish general (1755–1818)

James Parkinson

English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist

Giovanni Battista Viotti

Italian violinist and composer of the classical period (1755–1824)

Anton I of Saxony

Georges Couthon

French politician and lawyer (1755–1794)

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

French writer (1755–1794)

Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy

French chemist (1755-1809)

American painter (1755–1828)

François Joseph Lefebvre

Marshal of France (1755-1820)

Natalia Alexeievna of Russia

Russian Grand duchess (1755-1776)

Prussian general, reformer and freedom fighter (1755-1813)

Bertrand Barère

French politician, freemason and journalist

Prince Karl Ludwig, Hereditary Prince of Baden

Heir apparent in the Margraviate of Baden (1755-1801)

soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War

John Flaxman Jr.

English artist (1755–1826)

Quatremère de Quincy

French archaeologist, architect and writer (1755–1849)

Axel von Fersen the Younger

Swedish politician (1755-1810)

Stanisław Staszic

Polish philosopher and writer (1755–1826)

Gaspard de Prony

French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics (1755-1839)

American Founding Father (1755–1827)

Irish architect

Peter I of Oldenburg

Prince-Bishop and Grand Duke (first as regent, then officially after 1823) of Oldenburg (1755-1829)

Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz

Prussian general, composer and freedom fighter (1755-1816)

Jacques Labillardière

French botanist (1755-1834)

Spanish chemist

Anacharsis Cloots

Prussian noble (1755-1794)

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring

German anatomist and paleontologist (1755–1830)

Jean-Nicolas Corvisart

French physician (1755-1821)

William Bradford

American judge and second United States Attorney General (1755-1795)

Jean Louis Marie Poiret

French botanist (1755-1834)

Dorothea Viehmann

German market merchant and fairy tale teller, contributor to the Brothers Grimm's collection of fairy tales (1755–1816)

Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain

son of King Charles III of Spain (1755-1817)

Louis Ramond de Carbonnières

French mountaineer, geologist, botanist (1755-1827)

Russian-Swiss mathematician (1755–1826)

Nicolas-Jacques Conté

French painter, and inventor of the modern pencil (1755-1805)

American author (1755-1831)

Johann Christoph Wendland

German botanist (1755-1828)

Nicholas Gilman

American politician (1755-1814)

Marc-Antoine Parseval

French mathematician

Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt

Danish archaeologist, numismatist and anthropologist (1755–1809)

Turki bin Abdullah Al Saud

5th King of the Saudi State

Stanisław Kostka Potocki

Polish noble, politician, writer, 3rd Prime Minister (1755-1821)

American inventor

Robert Lefèvre

French painter (1755-1830)

Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer

German botanist and entomologist (1755-1829)

Narayanrao Peshwa

10th Peshwa of Maratha Empire

Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt

member of the House of Thurn and Taxis (1755-1810)

American merchant sea captain

Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Rochambeau

French soldier (1755–1813)

Honoré Flaugergues

French astronomer and magistrate (1755–1830)

Franz Anton Ries

German violinist