Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Salah Bey of Constantine

صالح باي

Algeria

1725 – 1792 (67 years old)

The most revered and celebrated Bey of Constantine (1771–1792), who built the Salah Bey Mosque, Madrasas, and bridges, immortalized in the tragic elegy 'Galou El Arab Galou'.

Constantine, Algeria

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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John Paul Jones (Father of the US Navy)

John Paul Jones

Scotland

1747 – 1792 (45 years old)

Scottish-American naval captain venerated as the 'Father of the United States Navy' who raided British home waters and uttered 'I have not yet begun to fight!'

Annapolis (Maryland), United States

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Politics

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Gustav III

Gustav III

Sweden

1746-01-24 – 1792-03-29 (46 years old)

Enlightened 18th-century monarch who abolished judicial torture, established freedom of the press, and founded the Swedish Academy and Royal Swedish Opera before his assassination at a masquerade.

Stockholm, Sweden

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Arts & Music

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Sir Joshua Reynolds

Joshua Reynolds

Great Britain

1723 – 1792 (68 years old)

First President of the Royal Academy of Arts whose 'Discourses on Art' championed the 'Grand Style' and who elevated British portraiture to heroic neoclassical dignity.

London, United Kingdom

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Politics

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Moulay al-Yazid ibn Muhammad

مولاي اليزيد بن محمد

Morocco

1750 – 1792 (42 years old)

Alaouite Sultan (1790–1792), charismatic and fiercely combative son of Sidi Muhammad ibn Abdallah who led the prolonged siege of Spanish-held Ceuta before dying of battlefield wounds.

Marrakech, Morocco

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Arts & Music

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Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austria

27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791 (35 years old)

Transcendent child prodigy and supreme musical genius whose unmatched elegance, dramatic psychology, and melodic perfection across over 600 works—including Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, and the Requiem—define the peak of Classical music.

Vienna, Austria

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Dutty Boukman

Dutty Boukman

Jamaica

c. 1767 – 1791 (24 years old)

Enslaved Jamaican-born Vodou priest and maroon leader who presided over the historic ceremony at Bois Caiman on August 14, 1791, delivering the immortal prayer that ignited the Haitian Revolution.

Morne Rouge (Nord), Haiti

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin

Григорий Александрович Потёмкин-Таврический

Russia

1739 – 1791 (52 years old)

Russian military leader, statesman, and favorite of Catherine the Great who annexed Crimea, founded Sevastopol and the Black Sea Fleet, and developed Novorossiya.

Kherson, Ukraine

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Dey Baba Mohamed Ben Othman

محمد بن عثمان باشا

Algeria

1710 – 1791 (81 years old)

Dey of Algiers for twenty-five years (1766–1791) who crushed the massive Spanish invasion of Algiers led by Count O'Reilly in 1775.

Algiers, Algeria

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Mohamed ben Othman Khodja

محمد بن عثمان خوجة

Algeria

1710 – 1791 (81 years old)

Longest-ruling Dey of Algiers (1766–1791), whose 25-year golden reign crushed the Spanish invasion of 1775 and orchestrated the historic liberation of Oran and Mers El Kébir in 1792.

Algiers, Algeria

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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John Wesley

John Wesley

Great Britain

1703 – 1791 (87 years old)

English cleric and theologian whose Aldersgate experience, open-air preaching, and Holy Club founded the worldwide Methodist movement and transformed 18th-century British society.

London, United Kingdom

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Sciences & Discovery

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

United States

17 January 1706 – 17 April 1790 (84 years old)

Founding Father and polymath who proved that lightning is electrical through his famous kite experiment, formulated the conservation of electric charge, and invented the lightning rod and bifocal glasses.

Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), United States

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Mohammed III of Morocco

محمد الثالث بن عبد الله

Morocco

c. 1710 – 1790 (80 years old)

Enlightened Alaouite Sultan of Morocco who modernized foreign diplomacy, founded the Atlantic port of Essaouira in 1764, and made Morocco the very first country in the world to officially recognize the independence of the United States in 1777.

Rabat, Morocco

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

Joseph Benedikt August Johann Anton Michael Adam

Austria

1741 – 1790 (48 years old)

Radical Enlightened Despot of Austria who abolished serfdom, instituted complete religious tolerance, and patronized Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Vienna, Austria

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Philosophy & Thought

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Baron d'Holbach (Paul-Henri Thiry)

Paul-Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach

Germany

1723 – 1789 (65 years old)

German-born French Enlightenment philosopher and wealthy patron whose legendary Parisian salon became the 'coterie holbachique' and whose radical atheist treatise Système de la Nature was dubbed the 'Atheist's Bible'.

Paris, France

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Arts & Music

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Saxe-Weimar

1714 – 1788 (74 years old)

Second surviving son of J.S. Bach, court harpsichordist to Frederick the Great, pioneer of the dramatic Empfindsamer Stil, and primary musical influence on Haydn and Mozart.

Hamburg, Free Imperial City of Hamburg

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Charles III of Spain

Carlos III de España (El Político / El Ilustrado)

Spain

1716 – 1788 (72 years old)

Enlightened Bourbon monarch of Spain who modernized Madrid, patronized science, and implemented the Bourbon administrative reforms.

San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain

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Arts & Music

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Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough

Great Britain

1727 – 1788 (61 years old)

Founding member of the Royal Academy and master portraitist whose 'The Blue Boy' and lyrical landscapes captured British elegance with feathery brushstrokes and natural ease.

London, United Kingdom

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