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Nicolas Beauzée

French grammarian (1717-1789)

Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds

British politician (1713-1789)

Croatian composer

Francina Margaretha van Huysum

18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands (1707–1789)

Giovanni Cornaro

Italian cardinal

Domenico Orsini d'Aragona

Italian cardinal (1719-1789)

Georges de Bièvre

Giovanni Maria Riminaldi

Italian cardinal

French prostitute and memoirist (1761–1789)

Fortunato de Felice, 2nd Count Panzutti

Italian printer

Charles Thomas, 3rd Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort

German nobleman, head of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort

Theodore Kavalliotis

Greek Orthodox cleric

Friedrich von Knauss

German watchmaker

Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley

British politician

Kpengla was a King of the Kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin, from 1774 until 1789. Kpengla followed his father Tegbessou to the throne and much of his administration was defined by the increasing Atlantic slave trade and regional rivalry over the profits from this trade. His attempts to control the slave trade generally failed, and when he died of smallpox in 1789, his son Agonglo came to the throne and ended many of his policies.

Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal

German inventor

English soprano

Jacques Philippe de Choiseul-Stainville

Marshal of France (1727-1789)

Japanese philosopher

Charles-Louis Loys de Cheseaux

Swiss historian

Jan Jerzy Grabowski

Biagio Bellotti

Italian painter, architect and musician (1714-1789)

Jacopo Belgrado

Italian astronomer (1704-1789)

Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort de Duras

French politician and diplomat (1715–1789)

Antonius Brugmans

British architect; (1717-1789)

Susanna de La Croix

Dutch draughtsperson (1755–1789)

Finnur Jónsson

Icelandic bishop (1704-1789)

Johann Friedrich Hartknoch

German publisher (1740–1789)

Ghulam Qadir Rohilla ibn Dabita

Rohilla leader in the 18th century

Friedrich August Krubsacius

German architect

Carl Schack Rantzau–Ascheberg

German politician

Italian engraver (1754–1789)

John I of Schwarzenberg

Czech and Austrian aristocrat

Nicholas Van Dyke

American politician (1738-1789)

American politician

Anne van Keppel, Countess of Albemarle

daughter of the 1st Duke of Richmond and Anne Brudenell; 1725-1737 a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Caroline.

Václav Jan Kopřiva

Czech composer and organist

Dutch artist, art collector and scientist

Jean-André Lepaute

French master clockmaker

George Cleghorn

Scottish medical writer

Giovanna Bonanno

Italian poisoner

Filippo Salvatore Gilii

Italian linguist

Francisco Preciado de la Vega

Spanish painter (1712-1789)

American lawyer, soldier, and politician (1714-1789)

Charles-Georges Le Roy

French encyclopedist (1723-1789)

Hungarian soldier, poet, politician (1718–1789)

Catholic cardinal

American spy (1729–1789)

Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières

French architect (1721-1789)

English gardener-botanist (?-1789)

Charles Wolfran Cornwall

British politician

8th Earl of Abercorn

American planter and politician (1732-1789)

George Waldegrave, 4th Earl Waldegrave

British earl and politician

Arabanoo ( – 1789) was an Aboriginal Australian man of the Eora forcibly abducted on New Year's Eve 1788 by British colonists who arrived with the First Fleet at Port Jackson. His capture was organised to force communication and relations between the Aboriginal people and the British. Governor Arthur Phillip came to esteem Arabanoo highly. He was the first Aboriginal Australian to live among Europeans.

American planter and politician (1730-1789)

Nikita Akinfiyevich Demidov

Russian businessman

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