Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Chloe Cooley

Canada

c. 1770 – c. 1800 (30 years old)

Enslaved Black woman in Upper Canada whose desperate, violent resistance against being bound and sold across the Niagara River in 1793 catalyzed the British Empire's very first anti-slavery legislation.

Lewiston (New York), United States

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Tipu Sultan (Tiger of Mysore)

ٹیپو سلطان / ಟಿಪ್ಪು ಸುಲ್ತಾನ್

India

1751 – 1799 (47 years old)

Visionary ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore who pioneered iron-cased Mysorean rocketry and led four relentless wars against British colonial hegemony.

Srirangapatna, India

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Qianlong Emperor (Hongli)

乾隆帝 / 愛新覺羅·弘曆

China

1711 – 1799 (87 years old)

Sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty whose sixty-year reign presided over the pinnacle of territorial expansion, imperial wealth, and colossal cultural patronage across China.

Zunhua, China

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Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Meknassi

محمد بن عثمان المكناسي

Morocco

c. 1740 – 1799 (~59 years old)

Master diplomat under Sultan Sidi Muhammad ibn Abdallah who negotiated the liberation of thousands of Muslim captives from Spain and Malta, author of the diplomatic masterpieces Al-Iksir and Al-Badr al-Safir.

Meknes, Morocco

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Moulay Hisham ibn Muhammad

مولاي هشام بن محمد

Morocco

c. 1755 – 1799 (~44 years old)

Son of Sidi Muhammad ibn Abdallah who was proclaimed Sultan in Marrakech and southern Morocco (1790–1795) during the dynastic partition with his brother Moulay Sulayman.

Marrakech, Morocco

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Religious Figures & Theologians

Mohamed el-Kebir

محمد بن عثمان الكبير

Algeria

1735 – 1799 (64 years old)

The greatest Bey of the Western Beylik of Mascara and Oran, who in 1792 liberated Oran and Mers El Kébir from Spanish occupation after nearly three centuries.

Mascara / Oran, Algeria

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Sciences & Discovery

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Luigi Galvani

Luigi Aloisio Galvani

Italy

9 September 1737 – 4 December 1798 (61 years old)

Italian physician and anatomist who discovered bioelectricity ('animal electricity'), demonstrating that nerves and muscles communicate via electrical currents, inspiring Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Bologna, Italy

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Elijah ben Solomon Zalman

אליהו בן שלמה זלמן

🌐 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

1720 – 1797 (77 years old)

Supreme rabbinic genius of Lithuania whose photographic memory, textual emendations of the Talmud, and mastery of mathematics and astronomy defined modern Lithuanian yeshiva scholarship.

Vilnius, Lithuania

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Edmund Burke

Ireland

1729-01-12 – 1797-07-09 (68 years old)

Formulated the foundational principles of representative democracy, parliamentary conscience, and gradualist political change rooted in historical tradition.

Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Great Britain

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Olaudah Equiano

Nigeria

c. 1745 – 31 March 1797 (~52 years old)

Igbo-born writer and abolitionist whose gripping 1789 autobiography exposed the atrocities of the Middle Passage and galvanized the British parliamentary campaign to end the transatlantic slave trade.

Middlesex, London, Great Britain

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Catherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great)

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Catherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great)

Екатерина II Великая (Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst)

Poland

1729 – 1796 (67 years old)

Longest-reigning female leader of Russia whose thirty-four-year golden age modernized the Russian Empire and annexed Crimea.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Literature & Poetry

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Robert Burns (Rabbie Burns)

Robert Burns

Great Britain

25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796 (37 years old)

Beloved national bard of Scotland whose vibrant Scots-language poetry and folk song collecting—including Auld Lang Syne, Tam o' Shanter, and A Man's a Man for A' That—celebrated democracy, social brotherhood, and romantic passion.

Dumfries, Great Britain

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Mary Brant

Konwatsi'tsiaiénni

United States

c. 1736 – 16 April 1796 (60 years old)

Influential Mohawk Clan Mother and political leader whose diplomatic mastery preserved the Six Nations alliance with the British Crown.

Kingston, Canada

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Music

Carl Michael Bellman

Sweden

1740-02-04 – 1795-02-11 (55 years old)

Supreme master of Swedish musical poetry known as the 'Anacreon of the North', whose 18th-century masterpieces 'Fredman's Epistles' and 'Fredman's Songs' blend drinking songs with tragic elegance.

Stockholm, Sweden

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Maquinna

Mukwina

Canada

c. 1750 – c. 1795 (45 years old)

Paramount Mowachaht chief of Nootka Sound who controlled Pacific maritime fur trade routes and mediated between Spanish and British naval forces during the Nootka Crisis.

Friendly Cove (Nootka Island), Canada

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Religion

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Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq

أحمد بن محمد الصادق

Tunisia

c. 1730 AD – 1795 AD (~65 years old)

18th-century scholar and judge of Tunis who authored seminal commentaries on Sahih al-Bukhari and advised Ali II Bey on commercial maritime law.

Tunis, Tunisia

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