people/1740s

English typographer and scholar

Samurai and historian

English painter (1742–1810)

English college head, clergyman and controversialist

American politician (1741–1811)

American politician

French chemist and physicist (1746–1780)

French explorer, naturalist, botanist (1740–1807)

Welsh Unitarian minister (1744–1804)

British clockmaker

Polish rabbi (1748–1825)

Massachusetts clockmaker

French mathematician and astronomer (1744–1804)

Polish-Lithuanian draughtsman and painter

British politician (1746–1792)

American politician

German actor (1743–1793)

British politician and lawyer (1746–1817)

French anatomist (1748–1794)

Italian dramatist and poet (1749–1803)

British peer

German gardener, artist and botanist

Scottish nobleman and politician

French poet and translator

Historical Indian statesman (1742–1800)

Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh

Unorthodox German Protestant biblical scholar, theologian, and polemicist

Nawab of Bengal from 1739 to 1740

English painter (1742–1782)

English clergyman and pamphleteer

Russian police chief (1740–1814)

Carpathian German naturalist, botanist, pastor and wine merchant

Scottish peer

English Jesuit priest, teacher, writer and administrator

Italian author

Belgian comic actor and theatre director

American Revolutionary war army officer

German poet and dramatist (1746–1797)

American politician (1744–1828)

English actor