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Friedrich Schiller

German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)

Mary Wollstonecraft

English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)

Scottish poet and lyricist (1759–1796)

French revolutionary (1759–1794)

William Pitt the Younger

British statesman (1759–1806)

French statesman (1759-1820)

William Wilberforce

English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833)

Seraphim of Sarov

Russian Saint and Wonderworker

William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville

British Prime Minister, politician (1759-1834)

Vittorio Emanuele I of Sardinia

King of Sardinia (1802-1821)

Sophie Dorothee of Württemberg

Russian dowager empress, wife of Paul I (1759-1828)

Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp

Queen consort of Sweden and Norway (1759–1818)

Friedrich August Wolf

German philologist

Ferenc Kazinczy

Hungarian linguist and writer (1759-1831)

Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Belgian painter and botanist (1759–1840)

Marie Clotilde of France

Queen consort of Sardinia (1796-1802) and Venerable

James Edward Smith

English botanist, founder of the Linnean Society of London (1759–1828)

Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein

Prince of Liechtenstein (1759-1805)

Maria Theresia Paradis

Austrian musician and composer (1759–1824)

Prince Maximilian of Saxony

Prince of Saxony (1759-1838)

British entomologist (1759-1850)

William Playfair

British mathematician, engineer and political economist (1759-1823)

Andrey Voronikhin

Russian architect and painter (1759-1814)

Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths

Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg

Prussian field marshal (1759-1830)

Jacques Cathelineau

Insurrection leader during the French Revolution (1759-1793)

Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc

French biologist (1759-1828)

August Wilhelm Iffland

Thomas Andrew Knight

British botanist (1759-1838)

François Hanriot

French general and revolutionary (1759–1794)

Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach

German composer

Sake Dean Mahomed

François Devienne

French composer, flautist, bassoonist

Johann Christian Reil

German physician

Francis Adam of Waldstein-Wartenberg

Austrian botanist (1759-1823)

Matsudaira Sadanobu

[松平定信] Daimyo and Roju (1759-1829)

Maximilian von Montgelas

German politician (1759-1838)

Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles

French judge and politician (1759-1794)

Czech conductor and composer (1759–1831)

Jakob II Bernoulli

Swiss mathematician (1759-1789)

Helen Maria Williams

English novelist, poet, translator, religious dissenter, abolitionist (1759/62-1827)

Aubin-Louis Millin de Grandmaison

French antiquary and naturalist (1759-1818)

Carl Frederik von Breda

Swedish portrait painter (1759-1818)

François Andrieux

French man of letters and playwright (1759-1833)

Alexander J. Dallas

6th United States Secretary of the Treasury (1759-1817)

Dominique-Georges-Frédéric Dufour de Pradt

Roman Catholic archbishop (1759-1837)

English classical scholar (1759–1808)

William Thornton

British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect (1759-1828)

Jean-Baptiste Audebert

French artist and naturalist (1759-1800)

British writer (1759-1843)

Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner

German-born Swedish composer (1759-1833)

Magnus Gustav von Essen

Baltic German military personnel (1759-1813)

Maria Petraccini

Italian anatomist and physician

Joaquín Blake y Joyes

Spanish general

French politician (1759-1798)

Scottish indologist

Adrienne de Noailles, Mademoiselle d'Ayen

French noblewoman (1759-1807)

Vincenzo Lunardi

Italian balloonist (1759-1806)

Louis François Antoine Arbogast

French mathematician