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Pius VIII
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1829 to 1830
Selim III
28th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1789–1807)
Marie Tussaud
French artist (1761–1850)
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
Baltic German general (1761-1818)
August von Kotzebue
German dramatist and writer (1761–1819)
Christiaan Hendrik Persoon
German mycologist (1761-1836)
William Carey
English Baptist missionary and Particular Baptist minister (1761-1834)
Jan Potocki
Polish nobleman, writer (creating in French), traveler, politician and historian (1761-1815)
Smithson Tennant
British chemist (1761-1815)
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
Philippe Buonarroti
Italian utopian socialist, writer, agitator, and freemason (1761-1837)
Jean-Charles Pichegru
French general (1761-1804)
Blasius Merrem
German naturalist (1761-1824)
William Gregor
British clergyman and mineralogist
Jacob Hübner
German entomologist (1761–1826)
Louis-Léopold Boilly
French painter (1761-1845)
Jean-Louis Pons
French astronomer
August Batsch
German naturalist (1761-1802)
Dorothea Bland
Anglo-Irish actress and courtesan (1761–1816)
Antoine Barnave
French politician (1761-1793)
Kaspar Maria von Sternberg
Czech botanist, geologist, paleontologist and nobleman (1761-1838)
George I of Saxe-Meiningen
Duke of Saxe-Meiningen from 1782 to 1803
Samuel Dexter
American politician (1761–1816) who served in Congress and in Presidential Cabinets of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
Marie Harel
Alleged inventor of Camembert cheese
Marie-Gabrielle Capet
French painter (1761-1818)
Marguerite Gérard
French painter and engraver (1761–1837)
John Opie
British historical and portrait painter (1761-1807)
Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt
German salonnière, daughter of Landgrave George William of Hesse-Darmstadt (1761-1829)
Richard Anthony Salisbury
British botanist and gardener (1761-1829)
Cornelio Saavedra
Platian general (1759-1828)
John Moore
British Army general (1761-1809)
Gottlob Ernst Schulze
German philosopher (1761-1833)
Infante José, Prince of Brazil
Portuguese Royal (1761-1788)
Georg Nikolaus von Nissen
Danish diplomat and music historian
Gian Domenico Romagnosi
Italian philosopher, economist and jurist (1761-1835)
François Just Marie Raynouard
French writer (1761-1836)
Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg
German duke (1761-1830)
Henry Shrapnel
British Army general
Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet
French scientist (1761-1807)
John Rennie
engineer from Scotland (1761-1821)
Joshua Brookes
British scientist
Sybil Ludington
American revolutionary heroine (1761-1839)
Aylmer Bourke Lambert
British botanist (1761-1842)
Friedrich von Matthisson
German poet (1761-1831)
Antonín Vranický
Czech violinist and composer
Pierre Claude François Daunou
French statesman and historian of the French Revolution and Empire (1761-1840)
Dido Elizabeth Belle
British aristocrat
Dorothea von Medem
Baltic German noble (1761-1821)
Charlotte von Kalb
German writer (1761-1843)
Antoine-François Andréossy
French general (1761–1828)
Alexandre Lenoir
French archaeologist (1761–1839)
Dirk van Hogendorp
Dutch general and politician (1761-1822)
Jean-Louis Pierrot
President of Haiti (1761-1857) and husband of Cécile Fatiman
Andreyan Zakharov
Russian architect
Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck
Dutch ambassador and Grand pensionary of Holland (1761-1825)
F.L.Æ. Kunzen
Danish composer
Landgravine Juliane of Hesse-Philippsthal
regent of Schaumburg-Lippe from 1787 to 1799
Ludwig Abeille
German classical pianist
Pedro Caro, 3rd Marquis of la Romana
Spanish military personnel (1761-1811)
Christoph Gottfried Bardili
German philosopher