Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Military Leaders & Strategists

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Malhar Rao Holkar

मल्हारराव होळकर

India

1693 – 1766 (73 years old)

Founder of the Holkar Dynasty of Indore and supreme Maratha cavalry general who rose from a shepherd family to command imperial campaigns across northern India and Malwa.

Alampur (Bhind, Madhya Pradesh), India

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Sciences & Discovery

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Mikhail Lomonosov

Михаил Васильевич Ломоносов

Russia

19 November 1711 – 15 April 1765 (53 years old)

Universal Russian polymath who founded Moscow State University, discovered the atmosphere of Venus during its 1761 transit, and formulated the conservation of mass and energy before Lavoisier.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Arts & Music

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William Hogarth

William Hogarth

Great Britain

1697 – 1764 (66 years old)

English pictorial satirist, painter, and pioneer of comic strips whose moral narrative series 'A Rake's Progress' and 'Marriage A-la-Mode' exposed 18th-century corruption.

London, United Kingdom

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Arts & Music

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Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau

France

1683 – 1764 (80 years old)

Pivotal French Baroque composer and harmonic music theorist whose operas and treatises revolutionized Western music.

Paris, France

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Literature & Poetry

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Cao Xueqin

曹雪芹

China

c. 1715 – c. 1763 (48 years old)

Qing dynasty author who wrote Dream of the Red Chamber (The Story of the Stone), universally celebrated as the supreme pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction.

Beijing, China

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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Qutb al-Din Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahim

شاه ولي الله الدهلوي

India

1703 – 1762 (59 years old)

Foremost Indian Islamic reformer and philosopher whose 'Hujjat Allah al-Baligha' synthesized legal, philosophical, and mystical thought and who translated the Quran into Persian.

Delhi, India

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Politics

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Anthony Henday

Anthony Henday

Great Britain

c. 1720 – c. 1762 (42 years old)

HBC explorer who completed an epic overland expedition in 1754-1755, becoming the first European to see the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Badi IV of Sennar

بادي الرابع (أبو شلوخ)

Sudan

c. 1705 – 1762 (~57 years old)

Formidable Sultan of the Black Sultanate of Sennar (Funj) from 1724 to 1762, who defeated the Abyssinian invasion at the Battle of the Dinder River in 1744 and expanded trans-Saharan Islamic education.

Sennar, Sudan

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Maharani Tarabai

ताराबाई भोसले

India

1675 – 1761 (86 years old)

Queen regent of the Maratha Empire who organized and led the relentless resistance that successfully repelled Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb's twenty-five-year invasion of the Deccan.

Satara, India

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Politics

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Louis-Joseph de La Vérendrye

Louis-Joseph Gaultier

Canada

9 November 1717 – 15 November 1761 (44 years old)

French-Canadian explorer who with his brother Francois reached the Black Hills and gazed upon the Rocky Mountains in January 1743.

Cape Breton, Canada

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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Israel ben Eliezer (The Besht / Baal Shem Tov)

רבי ישראל בעל שם טוב (הבעש״ט)

Ukraine

27 August 1698 CE – 22 May 1760 CE (61 years old)

Eighteenth-century mystical healer and founder of Hasidic Judaism. Taught that God dwells within all creation, elevating the simple, joyful prayer and loving kindness of ordinary people above dry scholarly elitism.

Medzhybizh, Ukraine

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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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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Military

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Louis-Joseph de Montcalm

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, marquis de Saint-Véran

France

1712 – 1759 (47 years old)

French general who led New France's forces during the French and Indian War, winning brilliant victories at Oswego, Fort William Henry, and Carillon before falling at the Plains of Abraham.

Quebec City, Canada

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Military

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James Wolfe

Major-General James Wolfe

Great Britain

1727 – 1759 (32 years old)

British general whose audacious nighttime amphibious ascent of the cliffs of Quebec led to victory over Montcalm at the Plains of Abraham, securing British dominion over Canada.

Greenwich (London; Memorial in Quebec City), United Kingdom

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Arts & Music

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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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Politics

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Muhammad I ar-Rashid Bey

محمد الرشيد باي

Tunisia

1710 AD – 1759 (49 years old)

Third Husainid sovereign of Tunis, celebrated as a passionate patron and composer of Andalusian Malouf music who systematized the Tunisian musical Nawbat and rebuilt royal artistic patronage.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Philosophy & Thought

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Anton Wilhelm Amo

Anton Wilhelm Amo

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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Music

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Johan Helmich Roman

Johan Helmich Roman

Sweden

1694-10-26 – 1758-11-20 (64 years old)

Baroque master acclaimed as the 'Father of Swedish Music', who studied under Handel, established Sweden's first public concert series, and composed the magnificent 'Drottningholm Music'.

Kalmar, Sweden

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