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Georges Danton
1759 – 1794
Lawyer, Revolutionary, Politician, Jurist
Georges Jacques Danton (, US: also ; French: [ʒɔʁʒ dɑ̃tɔ̃]; 26 October 1759 – 5 April 1794) was a French politician and one of the leading figures of the French…
Marquis de Condorcet
1743 – 1794
Philosopher, Mathematician, Economist, Politician, Political scientist, Biographer
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (; French: [maʁi ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan nikɔla də kaʁita maʁki də kɔ̃dɔʁsɛ]; 17 September 1743 – 29 March 1794),…
Edward Gibbon
1737 – 1794
Historian, Politician, Classical scholar, Writer
Edward Gibbon (; 8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was a British essayist, historian and politician. His most important and influential work, The History of the Dec…
Olympe de Gouges
1748 – 1793
Playwright, Journalist, Philosopher, Writer, Politician, Author
Olympe de Gouges (French: [ɔlɛ̃p də ɡuʒ] ; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for…
Marie Antoinette
1755 – 1793
Aristocrat, Consort
Marie Antoinette (Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was Queen of France as the wife of Louis XVI from 10 May 1774 until the abol…
Jean-Paul Marat
1743 – 1793
Politician, Journalist, Physician
Jean-Paul Marat (UK: , US: ; French: [ʒɑ̃pɔl maʁa]; born Mara; 24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was a French scientist, physician, political theorist, journalist, an…
Carlo Goldoni
1707 – 1793
Playwright, Writer, Librettist, Screenwriter, Translator, Poet lawyer
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (, also US: ; Italian: [ˈkarlo oˈzvaldo ɡolˈdoːni]; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the…
Louis XVI
1754 – 1793
Politician, Ruler, Art collector, Monarch
Louis XVI (Louis-Auguste; French: [lwi sɛːz]; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Re…
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
1747 – 1792
Politician
Leopold II (Peter Leopold Josef Anton Joachim Pius Gotthard; 5 May 1747 – 1 March 1792) was the penultimate Holy Roman Emperor, as well as King of Hungary, Croa…
Joshua Reynolds
1723 – 1792
Painter, Writer, Art collector, Visual artist
Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. The art critic John Russell called him one of the maj…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756 – 1791
Composer, Music educator, Pianist, Musician, Organist, Violinist
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a Classical composer and musician. He completed more than 800 works in his life—including outsta…
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
1749 – 1791
Journalist, Politician, Diplomat, Writer, Economist, Orator
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (French: [miʁabo]; 9 March 1749 – 2 April 1791), known simply as Mirabeau, was a French writer, orator, and statesman,…
John Wesley
1703 – 1791
Methodist pastor, Diarist, Philosopher, Translator, Hymnwriter, Missionary
John Wesley (; 28 June [O.S. 17 June] 1703 – 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a principal leader of a revival movement wi…
Adam Smith
1723 – 1790
Economist, Non-fiction writer, Philosopher, Writer, University teacher, Moralist
Adam Smith (baptised 16 June [O.S. 5 June] 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy an…
Benjamin Franklin
1706 – 1790
Politician, Publisher, Printer, Political theorist, Postmaster, Inventor
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath active as a physicist, philosopher, statesman and inventor…
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
1741 – 1790
Military leader, Monarch
Joseph II (13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 18 August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 29 November 1780 until his…
Abdul Hamid I
1725 – 1789
Ruler, Caliph, Sultan
Abdülhamid I or Abdul Hamid I (Ottoman Turkish: عبد الحميد اول, Abdü’l-Ḥamīd-i evvel; Turkish: I. Abdülhamid; 20 March 1725 – 7 April 1789) was the sultan of th…
Baron d'Holbach
1723 – 1789
Philosopher, Writer, Salonnière, Chemist, Encyclopédistes, Lawyer
Paul Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (; French: [dɔlbak]; 8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789), known as d'Holbach, was a Franco-German philosopher, encyclopedist and writ…
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
1714 – 1788
Composer, Pianist, Musicologist, Music theorist, Harpsichordist, Organist
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German composer and musician of the Baroque and Classical…
Charles III of Spain
1716 – 1788
Ruler
Charles III (Spanish: Carlos Sebastián de Borbón y Farnesio; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain from 1759 until his death in 1788. He was als…