Birthdays Date 1743 | History by KabAstro

Joseph Banks (1743-1820)

Feb 13 English botanist and naturalist who accompanied James Cook on board the Endeavour, born in London

Feb 19 (Ridolfo) Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer, who worked in the Spanish court, born in Lucca, Republic of Lucca (d. 1803)
Mar 8 [Benedikt] Bendix Friedrich Zinck, Danish violinist, keyboardist, and composer, baptized in Husum, Duchy of Schleswig, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1801)

Apr 13 3rd President of the United States (1801-09), born in Albemarle County, Virginia

Apr 24 Edmund Cartwright, English inventor (power loom), born in Marnham, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 1823)
Apr 30 Robert Jasper van der Capellen, Dutch politician and Master of Marsch, born in Eefde, Zutphen, Netherlands (d. 1814)
May 17 Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader, born in Roxbury, Connecticut (d. 1784)

May 20 Haitian general, revolutionary and most famous of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution, born in Cap-Français, French colony of Saint-Domingue

May 24 French journalist and revolutionary (Friend of the People periodical), born in Boudry, Prussia

Jun 8 Alessandro Cagliostro [Giuseppe Balsamo], Italian adventurer and magician (Prince of Quacks), born in Palermo, Sicily (d. 1795)
Jun 20 Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet and writer of hymns (Life! I Know Not What Thou Art), born in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, England (d. 1825)
Jun 30 Niels Schiørring, Danish musician and composer, born in Favrskov Municipality, Denmark (d. 1798)
Jul 3 Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Queen consort of Sweden, born in Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1813)
Jul 14 Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet and statesman, born in the Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1816)
Jul 31 August van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch mayor and orangist (d. 1811)
Aug 19 Marie Jeanne Becu, Comtesse du Barry, last mistress of Louis XV, born in Vaucouleurs, France (d. 1793)
Aug 26 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, father of modern chemistry (identified oxygen and hydrogen), born in Paris, France (d. 1794)

Sep 17 Marquis de Condorcet, French enlightenment philosopher (Condorcet Method) and mathematician, born in Ribemont, Picardy, France

Sep 22 Quintin Craufurd, British author (friend of Marie Antoinette), born in Kilwinning, Scotland (d. 1819)
Sep 30 Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, Portuguese composer (Dixit Dominus), born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1822)
Oct 5 Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer, born in Verona, Republic of Venice (d. 1818)
Nov 11 Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist, born in Jönköping, Sweden (d. 1828)
Dec 1 Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (discovered uranium), born in Wernigerode, Brandenburg (d. 1817)
Dec 6 Franz Nikolaus Novotny, Austrian composer, born in Eisenstadt, Austria (d. 1773)
Dec 23 Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian author and poet (Dushenka), born in Perevolochna, Cossack Hetmanate (d. 1803)