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an English author of the 18th century. He wrote what may be the earliest published defence of homosexuality in English, Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd (1749) and may also have collaborated with John Cleland, author of Fanny Hill.
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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 ... Eric Benzelius the Younger 1675, Jan 7 1742 1743 1743, Sep 23 a priest, theologian, librarian, bishop of Linköping, 1731-1742 and Archbishop of Uppsala, Swede... 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... John Potter 1674 ca 1737 1747 1747, Oct 10 the Archbishop of Canterbury for the Church of England from 1737-1747. He was the son of a linen... 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... Pope Benedict XIV 1675, Mar 31 1740 1758 1758, May 3 Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1740 until his death in1758. Perhaps one of the greatest s... Alexander Volck unknown 1740 1759 unknown the city scribe for the Wetteravian town of Büdingen in Hesse, Germany during the mid 18th centu... Francesco Vanneschi unknown 1732 1760 unknown an Italian opera manager, director and librettist. He was known as having been active as a libret... 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... Ann Smith Franklin 1696, Oct 2 1736 1763 1763, Apr 16 an American colonial newspaper printer and publisher. She inherited the business from her husband... Mikhail Lomonosov 1711, Nov 8 1742 1764 1765, Apr 4 a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, educati... 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... Laurence Sterne 1713, Nov 24 1737 1768 1768, Mar 18 an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opin... Menon unknown 1739 1768 unknown the pseudonym of an 18th-century French cookbook author; his true identity is unknown. His numero... 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... David Hume 1711, Apr 26 1736 1771 1776, Aug 25 a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highl... Tobias Smollett 1721, Mar 19 1748 1771 1771, Sep 17 a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures o... 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... Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712, Jun 28 1739 1776 1778, Jul 2 a philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the ... Voltaire 1694, Nov 21 1713 1778 1778, May 30 a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the ... Robert Rogers 1731, Nov 7 1746 1779 1795, May 18 an American colonial frontiersman. Rogers served in the British army during both the French and I... 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 ... Samuel Johnson [2] 1709, Sep 18 1744 1781 1784, Dec 13 an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moral... John Witherspoon 1723, Feb 5 1745 1781 1794, Nov 15 a Scots Presbyterian minister and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence a... Denis Diderot 1713, Oct 5 1743 1782 1784, Jul 31 a French philosopher, art critic, and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment... Cesar-Francois Cassini de Thury 1714, Jun 17 1735 1784 1784, Sep 4 a French astronomer and cartographer. His chief works are: La méridienne de l’Observatoire ... Benjamin Calau 1724 1743 1785 1785 a German portrait painter, who used an encaustic technique. He painted some portraits for Johann ... Rudjer Boscovich 1711, May 18 1740 1786 1787, Feb 13 a Ragusan physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit p... Robert Nugent 1709 1739 1788 1788, Oct 13 an Irish politician and poet. He was tersely described by Richard Glover as a jovial and voluptuo... 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... Adam Smith 1723, Jun 5 1748 1789 1790, Jul 17 a Scottish economist, philosopher, and author. He was a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political... John Burgoyne 1722, Feb 24 1743 1792 1792, Aug 4 a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War... George Mason 1725, Nov 30 1747 1792 1792, Oct 7 a Virginia planter and politician, and a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, ... Sir William Chambers 1723, Feb 23 1740 1796 1796, Mar 10 a Scottish-Swedish architect, based in London. Among his best-known works are Somerset House, Lon... Horace Walpole 1717, Sep 24 1737 1797 1797, Mar 2 an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He had Strawberry Hill... Giacomo Casanova 1725, Apr 2 1742 1797 1798, Jun 4 an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma v... Ashley Bowen 1728, Jan 8 1741 1799 1813 the first American sailor to write an autobiography. Although Bowen's career as a sailor was not ... Xosefa Xovellanos 1745, Jun 4 1740 1809 1807 the younger sister of Asturian politician illustrated Gaspar Melchor de Xovellanos and prominent ... 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...
