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1778 deaths
- VoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet was born in Paris on the 21st of November 1694. He entered the world as the youngest child of a minor treasury official and a woman…
- Carl LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus was born on the 23rd of May 1707 in the village of Råshult. His father Nicolaus Ingemarsson taught him Latin as a small child.
- James HargreavesJames Hargreaves was born at Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire. He stood about five-foot ten and was described as a stout, broad man.
- Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau was born on the 28th of June 1712 in the Republic of Geneva. His mother Suzanne Bernard died nine days after his birth from puerperal…
- Anna Maria MozartAnna Maria Pertl entered the world on the 25th of December 1720 in St. Gilgen, a town within the Archbishopric of Salzburg.