Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Anthony Benezet

Antoine Benezet

France

1713 – 1784 (71 years old)

French-born American Quaker educator and philosopher hailed as the 'Father of Atlantic Abolitionism', who founded the first public school for Black children in Philadelphia and convinced American and British Quakers to outlaw slavery.

Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), United States

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Literature & Poetry

Yosa Buson

与謝蕪村 (Taniguchi Buson)

🌐 Edo Japan

1716 – 1784 (68 years old)

Edo-period Japanese haiku master and painter (1716–1784), celebrated alongside Basho and Issa as one of the 'Great Three' haiku poets, renowned for his visually stunning, painterly imagery and romantic nostalgia.

Sakyo-ku (Kyoto), Japan

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Sciences & Discovery

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Leonhard Euler

Russia

15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783 (76 years old)

Most prolific mathematician in history whose Euler's identity ($e^{ipi} + 1 = 0$) is hailed as the most beautiful formula in mathematics, and who standardized modern mathematical notation.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Bartolina Sisa

Bartolina Sisa Vargas

Viceroyalty of Peru

1753 – 1782 (29 years old)

Aymara military commander, queen, and strategist who co-led the 1781 indigenous rebellion in Bolivia alongside her husband Tupac Katari, commanding troops during the Siege of La Paz; September 5 is celebrated as International Indigenous Women's Day in her honor.

La Paz, Bolivia

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Sciences & Discovery

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Daniel Bernoulli

Dutch Republic (Netherlands)

1700 – 1782 (82 years old)

Swiss mathematical genius who discovered Bernoulli's principle of fluid dynamics and laid the foundations of kinetic gas theory.

Basel, Switzerland

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Arts & Music

Johann Christian Bach

Saxony

1735 – 1782 (46 years old)

Youngest son of J.S. Bach, known as the 'London Bach', who pioneered the Classical symphonic style, established public subscription concerts, and was a formative mentor to young Mozart.

London, Great Britain

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Tupac Katari

Julian Apaza Nina

Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata

c. 1750 – 1781 (31 years old)

Aymara indigenous leader who adopted the name Tupac Katari and mobilized 40,000 native warriors to lay siege to the Spanish colonial capital of La Paz for six months in 1781, uttering the immortal prophecy: 'I die today, but I will return, and I will be millions.'

Penas (Omasuyos, La Paz), Bolivia

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Gregoria Apaza

Gregoria Apasa

Bolivia

c. 1751 – 1781 (~30 years old)

Indigenous Aymara leader and military general who co-commanded the massive 1781 indigenous uprising and siege of La Paz alongside Tupac Katari.

La Paz, Bolivia

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Micaela Bastidas

Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua

Viceroyalty of Peru

1744 – 1781 (36 years old)

Indigenous Peruvian revolutionary strategist and co-commander of the massive 1780 Andean insurrection alongside her husband Tupac Amaru II, directing logistics, ammunition convoys, and frontline military battalions against Spanish colonial forces.

Cusco, Peru

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Túpac Amaru II

José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera

Peru

19 March 1738 – 18 May 1781 (43 years old)

Indigenous leader of Quechua royal descent who led the Great Rebellion of 1780 against Spanish colonial rule, issuing the first proclamation of the abolition of Black slavery in the Americas.

Plaza de Armas, Cusco, Peru

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Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne

Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Kingdom of France

1727 – 1781 (53 years old)

Enlightenment economist and Comptroller-General under Louis XVI whose Six Edicts sought to avert revolution through free trade, ending the corvée, and abolishing guilds.

Paris, France

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Maria Theresa of Austria

Maria Theresia von Österreich

Habsburg Monarchy (Austria)

1717 – 1780 (63 years old)

Sole female ruler of the Habsburg dominions who defended her inheritance in the War of the Austrian Succession and modernized central Europe.

Vienna, Austria

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Arts & Music

Bernardo Bellotto

🌐 Republic of Venice

1722 – 1780 (58 years old)

Venetian view painter, nephew and pupil of Canaletto, whose hyper-realistic, dark-toned urban landscapes of Dresden, Vienna, and Warsaw were used to rebuild historic Warsaw after WWII.

Warsaw, Poland

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Arts & Music

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Military Leaders & Strategists

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

Jean Siméon Chardin

Kingdom of France

1699 – 1779 (80 years old)

Supreme French painter of quiet domestic genre scenes and still lifes whose tactile realism, soft natural light, and works like 'The Ray' and 'The Brioche' captivated Diderot.

Paris, France

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