In the year 1729, Baltimore, Maryland is founded (Jul 30), over 200 colonists in Mississippi, mostly French, claiming land from the Natchez nation, are massacred by them (Nov 29), Fountain of Ahmed III in Istanbul is completed, Stephen Gray discovers electrical conduction - and all these fine people were born:

1729-0112 Edmund Burke* statesman/philosopher - Dublin, Ireland (1797/68)
1729-0112 Lazzaro Spallanzani* biologist/ physiologist/priest - Scandiano, Italy (1799/70)
1729-0122 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing* writer/philosopher/publicist - Kamenz, Saxony (1781/52)

1729-0226 Anders Chydenius* priest/ liberal philosopher – Sotkamo, Finland-Sweden (1803/73)

1729-0429 Johan Westerby* farmer/renowned clearer of fields - Tuusula, Sweden-Finland (1804/75)

1729-0502 Catherine II of Russia* “Catherine the Great” – Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia (1796/67)

1729-0617 Georg Fredrik Tigerstedt* soldier/farm owner/Russian spy - Joroinen, Sweden-Finland (1790/61)

1729-0906 Moses Mendelssohn* German Jewish philosopher/grandfather of Felix Mendelssohn - Dessau, Principality of Anhalt, Holy Roman Empire (1786/56)

1729-1006 Sarah Crosby* teacher/Methodist preacher – Leeds, England (1803/74)
1729-1022 Johann Reinhold Forster* pastor/ornithologist/took part in James Cook’s second voyage - Tszew, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1798/69)

1729-1122 Helena Dorothea von Schönberg* industrialist - Schweikershain, Saxony (1799/69)

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1729-1202 Josiah Bartlett* physician/statesman/signatory of Declaration of Indepedence - Amesbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America (1795/65)
1729-1206 Anna Jaakontytär Smedman** mother of Susanna Tuomaantytär Smedman - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (unknown)
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