Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

King Alaungpaya

အလောင်းမင်းတရား

Taungoo Kingdom

1714 – 1760 (45 years old)

Founder of the Konbaung Dynasty who rose from a village headman to reunite Burma for the third time, founded the modern city of Yangon (Rangoon), and drove out French and British colonial outposts.

Shwebo, Myanmar

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George Frideric Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel)

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George Frideric Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel)

Georg Friedrich Händel

Germany

23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759 (74 years old)

German-British Baroque titan whose grand orchestral suites (Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks) and dramatic English oratorios—above all Messiah with its immortal Hallelujah Chorus—electrified European musical life.

London, Great Britain

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Philosophy & Thought

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Religious Figures & Theologians

Anton Wilhelm Amo

🌐 Gold Coast (now Ghana)

c. 1703 CE – c. 1759 CE (56 years old)

Ghanaian-born philosopher who became the first African to earn a doctorate and hold a university professorship in Europe, teaching at Halle, Wittenberg, and Jena.

Axim, Ghana

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Resistance & Human Rights

Jonathan Edwards

United States

1703 – 1758 (54 years old)

Titan of American philosophical theology, revivalist of the First Great Awakening, and president of Princeton whose 'Religious Affections' and 'Freedom of the Will' shaped American intellectual life.

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

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Francois Mackandal

Congo

c. 1730 – 1758 (28 years old)

Legendary Maroon guerrilla leader and herbalist in Saint-Domingue whose underground network of escaped slaves and botanical poisons terrorized French plantation owners for six years, inspiring the Haitian Revolution.

Cap-Haitien, Haiti

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Domenico Scarlatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti

Kingdom of Naples (Italy)

1685 – 1757 (71 years old)

Italian composer whose 555 brilliant keyboard sonatas pushed harpsichord virtuosity and harmonic audacity to unprecedented heights.

Madrid, Spain

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Philosophy & Thought

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George Berkeley

Kingdom of Ireland

1685 – 1753 (67 years old)

Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who formulated subjective idealism (immaterialism), asserting with the maxim 'esse est percipi' (to be is to be perceived) that material objects exist only as perceptions in minds.

Oxford, United Kingdom

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Military Leaders & Strategists

Tomaso Albinoni

Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

Republic of Venice

1671 – 1751 (79 years old)

Venetian Baroque composer celebrated for his lyrical oboe concertos, elegant trio sonatas, and Italian operas, whose melodic genius was deeply admired and studied by J.S. Bach.

Venice, Republic of Venice

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Maurice de Saxe (Marshal of Saxony)

Hermann Maurice de Saxe

Electorate of Saxony (Germany)

1696 – 1750 (54 years old)

Marshal General of France and visionary military theorist whose tactical brilliance won the Battle of Fontenoy and who authored the influential treatise Mes Rêveries.

Strasbourg, France

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Rachel Ruysch

Dutch Republic

1664 – 1750 (86 years old)

Pre-eminent Dutch Golden Age flower painter whose exquisite scientific botanical accuracy, dramatic lighting, and vibrant floral bouquets earned international royal commissions across a 60-year career.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Germany

31 March 1685 – 28 July 1750 (65 years old)

Supreme master of Western music whose towering achievements in counterpoint, sacred cantatas, the Mass in B minor, the St Matthew Passion, and The Well-Tempered Clavier stand as the absolute summit of the Baroque era.

Leipzig (Saxony), Germany

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Sciences & Discovery

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Émilie du Châtelet

Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet

France

17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749 (42 years old)

French Enlightenment mathematician and physicist whose translation and commentary on Newton's Principia remains the standard French text, and who proved that kinetic energy is proportional to mv².

Lunéville (Meurthe-et-Moselle), France

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

Nadir Shah

نادر شاه افشار

Safavid Empire

1688 – 1747 (58 years old)

Founder of the Afsharid Dynasty of Iran celebrated as the 'Sword of Persia' and 'Napoleon of Persia', who liberated Iran from Afghan occupation and seized the Peacock Throne and Koh-i-Noor diamond in Delhi.

Mashhad (Khorasan), Iran

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Nader Shah (The Sword of Persia)

نادر شاه افشار (Nāder Qoli Beg)

Safavid Iran

1688 – 1747 (58 years old)

Founder of the Afsharid Dynasty, military genius known as the 'Napoleon of Persia' who conquered Delhi and carried off the Peacock Throne.

Mashhad, Khorasan, Iran

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Literature & Poetry

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Jonathan Swift

Ireland

30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745 (77 years old)

Foremost prose satirist in the English language and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, whose Gulliver's Travels and biting satire A Modest Proposal exposed the savagery and hypocrisy of human politics.

Dublin, Ireland

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