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François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire (, ; ), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially of the Catholic Church) and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)

Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768 (1708–1778)

Italian physicist (1711-1778)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Italian painter (1720-1778)

18th-century British composer

Anna Maria Mozart

mother of Maria Anna ("Nannerl") and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

James Hargreaves

English cotton weaver; inventor of the spinning jenny

Étienne-Gabriel Morelly

French philosopher (1717–1778)

Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo

118th Doge of Venice (1701-1778)

Charles De Geer

Swedish entomologist, industrialist and civil servant (1720-1778)

Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet

French scientist (1720-1778)

Louis, Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

German royal (1725–1778)

Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano

English singer, violinist and composer (1756-1788)

Pedro de Cevallos

Spanish military governor (1715-1778)

Francesca Cuzzoni

Landgravine Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg

German noble (1717-1778)

Lorenz Christoph Mizler

German music historian and polymath (1711-1778)

Francesco Cetti

Italian scientist

Johann Sebastian Bach

German painter, grandson of the composer (1748–1778)

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne

French sculptor (1704-1778)

Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain

French general (1707–1778)

Therese of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and abbess of Gandersheim Abbey

thumb|Lekain in the role of Genghis Khan for the play ''[[L'Orphelin de la Chine'', 1769]]

Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers

Royal Navy admiral

Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch

German theologian

Swedish botanist (1739-1778)

Joseph Marie Terray

French politician (1715-1778)

Philip Livingston

American politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence (1716-1778)

Charles Le Beau

French historian

Johann Erich Thunmann

Swedish academic (1746-1778)

Pieter Burman the Younger

Dutch lawyer and philologist (1713-1778)

Pieter Teyler van der Hulst

Dutch Mennonite cloth merchant and art collector (1702-1778)

Ottoman princess, daughter of Ahmed III

Constantine, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg

Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham

British countess (1693–1778)

Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal

Colonial governor of Louisiana (1698-1778)

Françoise Duparc

18th century French portrait painter from Marseille (1726–1778)

British astronomer, mathematician and scholar; (1705-1778)

Augustus Toplady

British hymn writer, Anglican cleric (1740–1778)

Princess Casimire of Anhalt-Dessau

Countess Consort of Lippe-Detmold

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

painter, engraver and draughtsman (1720-1778)

George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal

Nicolas-Sébastien Adam

French sculptor (1705–1778)

Charles Marie Raymond, Prince and 5th Duke of Arenberg

Austrian Field Marchal (1721-1778)

Henry Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode

German politician, canon, provost and author of numerous hymns (1716-1778)

Thomas-François Dalibard

French physicist

François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault

writer, painter and botanist (c.1693-1778)

Ignatius Gottfried Kaim

Austrian chemist

Shmelke of Nikolsburg

Bugis warrior and first Sultan of Selangor

Paul Jacques Malouin

French physician and chemist

Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny

Marshal of France (1689-1778)

George IX of Imereti

King of Imereti

Swiss salon-holder and letter writer

Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry

Scottish duke (1698-1778)

Italian composer