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1676, Jun 15 1712-1729 1729, Sep 13
a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer, credited as a founder of the Georgian style. For most of his career, he resided in Italy and England. He is believed to have trained in and studied architecture under James Smith, this belief is strengthened by Campbell owning several drawings of buildings designed by Smith.
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Colen Campbell 1676, Jun 15 1712
1729 1729, Sep 13
Haquin Spegel 1645, Jun 14 1670 1714 1714, Apr 17 a religious author and hymn writer who held several bishop's seats for the Lutheran Swedish Churc... Samuel Garth 1661 1691 1714 1719, Jan 18 an English physician and poet. In 1697 he delivered the Harveian Oration , in which he advo... William Congreve [1] 1670, Jan 24 1692 1714 1729, Jan 19 an English playwright and poet. William Congreve is seen as the man who shaped the English comedy... William Dampier 1651, Sep 1673 1715 1715, Mar the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumn... Karen Brahe 1657, Dec 1 1683 1717 1736, Sep 27 a Danish aristocrat and book-collector. Karen became an able administrator of her father's estate... Naphtali Cohen 1649 1690 1718 1718 a Russo-German rabbi and kabalist born in Ostrowo in Ukraine. He belonged to a family of rabbis i... Thomas Parnell 1679, Sep 11 1705 1718 1718, Oct 24 an Anglo-Irish poet and clergyman who was a friend of both Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. He... Seamus O Fearghail unknown 1711 1718 unknown an Irish poet and scribe, fl. 1711-1718. Paul Walsh (priest) wrote of him in 1920:
"James O Farr... Samuel Schotten 1644 1685 1719 1719, Jul 5 He became Rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1685. Shmuel Schotten HaCohen was born ... Joseph Addison 1672, May 1 1693 1719 1719, Jun 17 an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lanc... Willem Sewel 1653, Apr 1668 1720 1720, Mar a Dutch Quaker historian, of English background. He was son of Jacob Williamson Sewel, a free cit... Thomas d'Urfey 1653 1676 1720 1723, Feb 26 an English writer and wit. He composed plays, songs, and poetry, in addition to writing jokes. He... Pierre Daniel Huet 1630, Feb 8 1651 1721 1721, Jan 26 a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics, founder of the Academie du Physiq... Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach 1656, Jul 20 1671 1723 1723, Apr 5 an Austrian architect, sculptor, and architectural historian whose Baroque architecture profoundl... Richard Boulton unknown 1697 1724 unknown a physician and author from England. Boulton was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and for s... Richard Steele 1672, Mar 1697 1724 1729, Sep 1 an Irish writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the... Isaac Newton 1642, Dec 25 1665 1726 1726, Mar 20 an English physicist and mathematician (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who ... Cotton Mather 1663, Feb 12 1685 1726 1728, Feb 13 a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphle... George Sewell unknown 1713 1726 1726 an English physician and poet, known as a controversialist and hack-writer. In early life Sewell ... Richard Blackmore 1654, Jan 22 1682 1727 1729, Oct 9 an English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an example ... Daniel Defoe 1660 ca 1697 1728 1731, Apr an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, most famous for his novel Robinso... David Nieto 1654 1702 1728 1728, Jan 10 the Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community in London, later succeeded in this capac... Samuel Izacke of Devon unknown 1720 1729 unknown a Chamberlain of the City of Exeter and an antiquarian. He was the son of Richard Izacke (c.1624â... Captain Charles Johnson unknown 1720 1729 unknown the British author of the 1724 book A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most n... Seon Mac Solaidh unknown 1720 1729 unknown an Irish poet and scribe. A native of Harmanstown, parish of Stackallen, County Meath, Paul Walsh... Sean O Cathain unknown 1720 1729 unknown an Irish scribe.
Little is known of Ó Catháin. He transcribed Trà Biorghaoithe an Bháis – ... Laurence Eusden 1688, Sep 1711 1730 1730, Sep 27 an English poet who became Poet Laureate in 1718. Eusden, who was thirty years-old at the time of... Matthew Tindal 1657 1678 1733 1733, Aug 16 an eminent English deist author. His works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, ... John Arbuthnot 1667, Apr 1685 1735 1735, Feb 27 a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contribution... William Wake 1657, Jan 26 1716 1737 1737, Jan 24 a priest and Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England from 1716 until his death in 1737.... Alexander Pope 1688, May 21 1709 1738 1744, May 30 an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his transl... Tobias Fitch unknown 1720 1739 unknown wrote a journal of his mission from Charleston to the Creeks. Succeeded Colonel Chicken as Indian... Jethro Tull 1674 1693 1740 1741, Feb 21 an English agricultural pioneer from Berkshire who helped bring about the British Agricultural Re... John Adams [1] 1704 1728 1740 1740, Jan an American poet. Adams was distinguished for his intellect and piety. As a preacher he was much ... Melchior de Polignac 1661, Oct 11 1683 1742 1742, Nov 20 a French diplomat, Cardinal and neo-Latin poet. During the last years of Louis XIV, Abbé de Poli... John Atkins 1685 1703 1742 1757 a British Royal naval surgeon. Atkins published two books, both of which have had more than one e... Richard Tipper unknown 1709 1742 unknown an Irish scribe. Richard Tipper lived at Mitchelstown, parish of Castleknock, County Dublin. He l... Alain-Rene Lesage 1668, May 6 1695 1743 1747, Nov 17 a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two ... Charlotte-Catherine Patin 1672 ca 1683 1744 1744 a 17th- and 18th-century French writer and art critic. Granddaughter of medical doctor and letter... Jonathan Richardson 1667, Jan 12 1715 1745 1745, May 28 an English artist, collector of drawings, and writer on art, working almost entirely as a portrai... Gavril Stefanovic Venclovic unknown 1680 1749 unknown a Serbian priest, writer, poet, orator, philosopher, and illuminator. He was one of the first and... Johann Heinrich Zedler 1706, Jan 7 1727 1749 1751, Mar 21 a bookseller and publisher. His most important achievement was the creation of a German encyclope... William Barrowby 1682 1718 1751 1758, Dec 30 an English physician. Barrowby was born in London, the son of John Barrowby, a physician. He was ... John Wood the Elder 1704 1725 1754 1754, May 23 an English architect, working mainly in Bath. In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew... Henry Fielding 1707, Apr 22 1728 1754 1754, Oct 8 an English novelist and dramatist best known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, a... Allan Ramsay [1] 1686 1712 1755 1758 a Scottish poet (or makar), playwright, publisher, librarian and wig-maker. As a pastoral writer ... Aaron Hart 1670 1692 1756 1756 the first chief rabbi of the United Kingdom and the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1... Simon Awad 1683 1708 1756 1756, Feb 12 the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch from 1743 to his death in 1756, remembered as an Arab writer. I... Samuel Richardson 1689, Aug 19 1706 1758 1761, Jul 4 an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: ... James Ralph 1705 1724 1758 1762, Jan 24 an American born English political writer, historian, reviewer, and Grub Street hack writer known... Johann Georg Bergmuller 1688, Apr 15 1702 1762 1762, Apr 2 a painter, particularly of frescoes, of the Baroque. Bergmüller quickly acquired a high reputati... Edward Young 1681 1713 1762 1765 an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts . Young is said to have been a brillian... Richard Brookes unknown 1721 1763 unknown an English physician and author of compilations and translations on medicine, surgery, natural hi... Firmin Abauzit 1679, Nov 11 1698 1767 1767, Mar 20 a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Genev... Johann Joachim Quantz 1697, Jan 30 1716 1769 1773, Jul 12 a German flutist, flute maker and composer. He composed hundreds of flute sonatas and concertos, ... Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin 1666 1680 177 unknown a French numismatist, writer and painter during the 17th century. Granddaughter of medical doctor... Enrique Florez 1701, Feb 14 1716 1770 1773, Aug 20 a Spanish historian. At 15 years old, he entered the order of St Augustine. He subsequently becam... James Ferguson [3] 1710, Apr 25 1720 1773 1776, Nov 17 a Scottish astronomer, instrument and globe maker. It is, as the inventor and improver of astron... Voltaire 1694, Nov 21 1713 1778 1778, May 30 a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the ... Constantin Christian Dedekind 1628, Apr 2 1652 178 1715 a German poet, dramatist, librettist, composer and bass singer of the Baroque era. His 1657 songb... Jose Francisco de Isla 1703, Apr 24 1722 1781 1781, Nov 2 a Spanish Jesuit, celebrated as a preacher and a humorist and satirist of the stamp of Miguel de ... Benjamin Franklin 1705, Jan 6 1718 1789 1790, Apr 17 one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading aut... Jonathan Swift 1667, Nov 30 1690 183 1745, Oct 19 an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Torie...
