In the year 1726, Isaac Newton tells William Stukeley the story of how he developed his theory of gravity (Apr 15), Voltaire begins his exile in England (May 1), Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is first published in London (Oct 28), the settlement of Montevideo is founded by the Spaniards (Dec 24) - and all these fine people were born:
1726-0116 Hugh Mercer* physician/to America at age 21/soldier and general in the American Revolution - Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (1777/50)
1726-0207 Margaret Fownes-Luttrell* painter - Dunster Castle, Dunster, England (1766/40)
1726-0308 Richard Howe* nobleman/naval officer - London, England (1799/73)
1726-0405 Benjamin Harrison V* planter/merchant/ signer of the Declaration of Independence - Charles City County, Colony of Virginia, British America (1791/65)
1726-0407 Charles Burnley* musician/music historian/composer - Shrewsbury, England (1814/88)
1726-0420 Joseph de Ferraris* Austrian general/cartographer - Lunéville, Kingdom of France (1814/87)
1726-0428 Gabriel Andersinpoika Heikkilä* (b Wikman) farmer/politician - Sweden-Finland (1807/81)
1726-0501 Jaakko Heikinpoika Renko** (Västilä) father of Jaakko Jaakonpoika Yli-Renko - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1809/82)
1726-0513 Johann Georg Roederer* French physician/obstetrician - Strasbourg (1763/36)
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1726-0603 James Hutton* geologist/ experimental agriculturalist/naturalist - Edinburgh, Scotland (1797/70)
1726-0614 Thomas Pennant* naturalist/ traveller/antiquarian - Whitford, Flintshire, Wales (1798/72)
1726-0710 Alexander Kokorinov* architect/educator - Tobolsk, Siberia, Russian Empire (1772/45)
1726-0807 James Bowdoin II* politician/American Revolutionary leader - Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America (1790/64)
1726-0901 François-André Danican Philidor* composer/chess player - Dreux, France (1795/68)
1726-0925 Angelo Maria Bandini* author/ librarian - Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1803/76)
1726-0926 John Anderson* natural philosopher/liberal educator - Rosneath, Dunbartonshire, Scotland (1796/69)
1726-1009 Agneta Juhontytär Luhtasela** (b Malmsten) mother of Mikko Mikonpoika Latva-Luhtasela - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1789/63)
1726-1016 Daniel Chodowiecki* German painter/printmaker - Danzig, Poland (1801/74)
1726-1029 Daniel Melanderhjelm* (b Melander) mathematician/ astronomer - Stockholm, Kingdom of Sweden (1810/83)
1726-1120 Oliver Wolcott* politician/signer of the Declaration of Independence - Windsor, Connecticut (1797/71)
1726-1202 Alexander Hood* 1st Viscount Bridport/officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars - England (1814/87)
1726-1204 William Alexander* aka Lord Stirling/Scottish-American major general during the American Revolutionary War - New York City, Province of New York (1783/56)
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