In the year 1758, Carl Linnaeus introduces the term Homo Sapiens (Jan 1), one-piece pencil with eraser is patented (Mar 30), Halley’s Comet appears for the first time after Halley’s identification of it (Dec 25), the French build the first European settlement at the mouth of Buffalo Creek in New York, the Seven Year’s War goes on - and all these fine people were born:
1758-0106 Charles Ganilh* economist/politician - Allanche, Kingdom of France (1836/78)
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1758-0117 Marie Anne Simonis* Belgian textile industrialist - Verviers, Principality of Liège, Holy Roman Empire (1831/73)
1758-0120 Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier* noblewoman/ chemist - Montbrison, Loire, France (1836/78)
1758-0201 Agustin de Betancourt y Molina* engineer/urban planner/ construction manager - Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain (1824/66)
1758-0201 Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalés* orator/ politician - Grenade, Kingdom of France (1805/47)
1758-0210 Amalia Holst* (b von Justi) German writer/intellectual/early feminist - Mecklenburg (1829/c. 71)
1758-0228 Nicolas François* financier - Rouen, Kingdom of France (1850/92)
1758-0309 Franz Joseph Gall* neuroanatomist/physiologist - Tiefenbronn, Baden (1828/70)
1758-0315 Magdalene Sophie Buchholm* writer/ poet - Skien, Denmark-Norway (1825/c. 67)
1758-0325 Richard Dobbs Spaight* planter/ politician/signer of the United States Constitution - New Bern, North Carolina, British America (1802/44)
1758-0404 John Hoppner* portrait painter - Whitechapel, London, England (1810/51)
1758-0409 Fisher Ames* U.S. Congressman/orator - Dedham, Massachusetts Bay, British America (1808/50)
1758-0427 Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix* lawyer/ornithologist - Oisemont, France (1830/71)
1758-0428 James Monroe* politician/5usp - Westmoreland County, Virginia, British America (1831/73)
1758-0506 Maximilien Robespierre* lawyer/politician - Arras, Artois, France (1794/36)
1758-0515 Thomas Taylor* translator/ neoplatonist - London, England (1835/77)
1758-0517 John St Aubyn* High Sheriff of Cornwall/MP/fossil collector - Golden Square, London, England (1839/81)
1758-0619 Raffaello Sanzio Morghen* engraver - Naples, Kingdom of Naples (1833/74)
1758-0622 Joseph McMinn* politician/ Governor of Tennessee - West Marlborough Township, Pennsylvania, British America (1824/66)
1758-0629 Clotilde Tambroni* Italian philologist/linguist/poet - Bologna, Emilia-Romagna (1817/58)
1758-0704 Charles d’Abancourt* statesman/ minister to Louis XVI - Douai, Kingdom of France (1792/34)
1758-0715 Johan Fredrik Eek* Swedish general - Rauma, Sweden-Finland (1820/61)
1758-0731 Jeremiah Colegrove* prominent farmer/manufacturer/captain in the American Revolution - Scituate, Colony of Rhode Island, British America (1836/78)
1758-0805 Emperor Go-Momozono* 後桃園天皇 the 118th Emperor of Japan - Japan (1779/21)
1758-0814 Carle Vernet* painter - Bordeaux, Kingdom of France (1836/78)
1758-0824 Thomas Picton* officer of the British Army in the Napoleonic Wars - Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales (1815/56)
1758-0901 Mikko Heikinpoika Mustalampi** (b Lemvik) father of Susanna Mikontytär Mustalampi - Lempoinen, Lempäälä, Sweden-Finland (1791/33)
1758-0910 Hannah Webster Foster* novelist - Salisbury, Massachusetts, British America (1840/81)
1758-0914 Abraham Öhmann* civil servant/senator - Porvoo, Sweden-Finland (1814/56)
1758-0920 Jean-Jacques Dessalines* leader of the Haitian Revolution - Cormier, Saint-Domingue (1806/48)
1758-0929 Horatio Nelson* British navy admiral - Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England (1805/47)
1758-1005 Seymour Fleming* noblewoman - Middlesex, England (1818/59)
1758-1011 Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers* German physician/astronomer - Arbergen, Holy Roman Empire (1840/81)
1758-1016 Noah Webster* lexicographer/ textbook pioneer/author - Hartford, Connecticut, British America (1843/84)
1758-1031 Thomas Gisborne* Anglican priest/poet/abolitionist - Bridge Gate, Derby, England (1846/87)
1758-1112 Jean Joseph Mounier* lawyer/ judge/politician - Grenoble, Kingdom of France (1806/47)
1758-1116 Peter Andreas Heiberg* Danish-Norwegian author/philologist - Vordingborg, Denmark-Norway (1841/82)
1758-1125 John Armstrong Jr.* soldier/ diplomat/statesman - Carlisle, Pennsylvania, British America (1843/84)
1758-1203 Louis Adam* piano virtuoso/music teacher/composer - Muttersholtz, Alsace, Kingdom of France (1848/89)
1758-1209 Richard Hoare* antiquarian/ archaeologist/traveller - Barnes, Surrey, England (1838/79)
1758-1221 Jean Baptiste Eblé* engineer/general during the Napoleonic Wars - Saint-Jean-Rohrbach, Kingdom of France (1812/54)
Updated 12.4.2023-3
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