Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Humanities

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Abu Abdallah Muhammad al-Saghir al-Ifrani

محمد الصغير الإفراني

Morocco

c. 1670 – 1747 (77 years old)

Master Moroccan historian and imam of the Ben Youssef Mosque in Marrakech, author of Nuzhat al-Hadi, the definitive historical chronicle of the Saadian dynasty.

Marrakech, Morocco

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Lalla Khenatha bint Bakkar

خناثة بنت بكار

Morocco

c. 1668 – 1746 (~78 years old)

Remarkable 18th-century Moroccan queen, scholar of hadith, and de facto ruler who guided the Alaouite state through thirty years of political instability following Moulay Ismail's death.

Fez, Morocco

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Ahmed Pasha Karamanli

أحمد باشا القره مانلي

Libya

1686 – 1745 (59 years old)

Founder of the autonomous Karamanli dynasty in 1711, who ruled Tripoli, Cyrenaica, and the Fezzan for 34 years, constructing the Ahmed Pasha Mosque and securing trans-Saharan caravan routes.

Tripoli, Libya

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Ahmad Karamanli

أحمد القره مانلي

Libya

1686 – November 4, 1745 (59 years old)

Ambitious military officer and statesman who founded the autonomous Karamanli Dynasty of Tripolitania in 1711, ending Ottoman Janissary instability and inaugurating a century of Libyan commercial prosperity and maritime strength.

Tripoli, Libya

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Literature & Poetry

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Jonathan Swift

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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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford

Robert Walpole

Great Britain

1676 – 1745 (68 years old)

Universally recognized as Great Britain's first Prime Minister, who led the British government for over twenty years, stabilized finances after the South Sea Bubble, and established 10 Downing Street.

Houghton (Norfolk), United Kingdom

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Literature & Poetry

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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

Great Britain

21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744 (56 years old)

Supreme English poet of the Augustan Enlightenment whose glittering heroic couplets, translations of Homer's Iliad, and satirical masterworks—An Essay on Criticism and The Rape of the Lock—made him the second most quoted writer in English after Shakespeare.

Twickenham (London), Great Britain

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Science

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Anders Celsius

Anders Celsius

Sweden

1701-11-27 – 1744-04-25 (42 years old)

Eminent Swedish astronomer and physicist who invented the 100-degree centigrade temperature scale, built the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, and participated in Maupertuis' Lapland expedition.

Uppsala, Sweden

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Sciences & Discovery

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Edmond Halley

Edmond Halley

Great Britain

8 November 1656 – 25 January 1742 (85 years old)

English Astronomer Royal who calculated the periodic 76-year orbit of Halley's Comet, personally funded and published Newton's Principia, and mapped southern hemisphere stars from St Helena.

London, United Kingdom

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Science

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Vitus Bering

Vitus Jonassen Bering

Denmark

1681-08-05 – 1741-12-19 (60 years old)

Renowned Danish navigator and explorer in Russian imperial service who proved Asia and North America are separated by sea, giving his name to the Bering Strait and Bering Sea.

Bering Island, Russia

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Arts & Music

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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi

Italy

4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741 (63 years old)

Venetian Baroque composer and violin virtuoso whose brilliant three-movement concerto form, sparkling orchestral rhythms, and vivid program music in The Four Seasons defined high Baroque instrumental music.

Vienna, Austria

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Frederick William I of Prussia (The Soldier King)

Friedrich Wilhelm I (Der Soldatenkönig)

Germany

1688 – 1740 (51 years old)

King in Prussia who built the formidable Prussian military and civil administrative state, father of Frederick the Great.

Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Husayn I ibn Ali

حسين بن علي الأول

Tunisia

1669 – 1740 (71 years old)

Founder of the Husainid dynasty of Tunisia in 1705, which established hereditary national monarchy and ruled the country until the proclamation of the Republic in 1957.

Kairouan, Tunisia

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Baji Rao I

बाजीराव बल्लाळ

India

1700 – 1740 (39 years old)

Peshwa (Prime Minister) of the Maratha Empire who never lost a battle across forty-one engagements, renowned for lightning cavalry warfare and expanding Maratha rule to the gates of Delhi.

Raverkhedi (Madhya Pradesh), India

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Peshwa Baji Rao I (The Undefeated)

श्रीमंत पेशवे बाजीराव बल्लाळ

India

1700 – 1740 (39 years old)

7th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire who fought in 41 major battles without suffering a single defeat, transforming the Marathas into the preeminent power in India.

Raverkhedi (Khargone), India

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Politics

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Moulay Ali ibn Ismail

مولاي علي بن إسماعيل

Morocco

c. 1690 – 1737 (~47 years old)

Alaouite Sultan (1734–1736), son of Moulay Ismail, who attempted to restore monarchical order in Fez and Meknes during the mid-18th century crisis of succession.

Fez, Morocco

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Arts & Music

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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Giovanni Battista Draghi

Italy

1710 – 1736 (26 years old)

Italian early Classical composer who revolutionized comic opera with 'La serva padrona' and composed the immortal 'Stabat Mater' before dying of tuberculosis at age twenty-six.

Pozzuoli, Kingdom of Naples

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Yongzheng Emperor

雍正帝 (胤禛)

China

1678 – 1735 (56 years old)

Fifth emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1722–1735) whose incorruptible work ethic, anti-corruption campaigns, establishment of the Grand Council, and tax reforms transformed the Qing imperial treasury and solidified the golden age of high Qing.

Yixian (Hebei), China

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