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February 5 – Mary Cowper, English diarist (born 1685) February 12 – Elkanah Settle, English poet and dramatist (born 1648) [16] March 19 – Johann Christian Thomae, German historian and biographer (born 1668) [17] July 11 – Delarivier Manley, writer, playwright and pamphleteer (born c. 1663) [18] August 15 – Manko, Japanese poet (year ...
Gottfried Heinrich Bach (born: 26 February 1724 – funeral: 12 February 1763) was a child of Johann Sebastian Bach and the firstborn son of his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach. He was born in Leipzig , where his parents had moved the year before his birth.
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Gregory died in Edinburgh on 9 February 1773. He is buried in Canongate Churchyard but the plot bears only the name of his son, James, also a prominent doctor and Professor of Medicine. The latter was famed for creating "Gregory's Powder" and "Gregory's Mixture", both frequently used for stomach complaints until World War I .
1 January – Charles Gildon, critic and dramatist (born c. 1665) 12 February – Elkanah Settle, writer (born 1648) [5] 21 May – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, statesman (born 1661) 15 June – Henry Sacheverell, churchman and politician (born 1674) 29 October – William Wollaston, philosophical writer (born 1659) [6]
February 12 – William Mason (died 1797), English poet, editor and gardener; February 25 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler (died 1798), German poet; March 20 – Duncan Ban MacIntyre (died 1812), Scottish Gaelic poet; May 18 – Magtymguly Pyragy (died c. 1807), Turkmen spiritual leader and poet; July 2 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (died 1803 ...
1753 – In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. [ 8 ] 1801 – United States presidential election : A tie in the Electoral College between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by ...
Christopher Gadsden (February 16, 1724 – August 28, 1805) was an American politician who was the principal leader of the South Carolina Patriot movement during the American Revolution. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress , a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War , Lieutenant Governor of ...