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1808 deaths
- Ivan StarovIvan Yegorovich Starov entered the Imperial Moscow University in 1755. He transferred to the gymnasium of the Russian Academy of Sciences a year later.
- Selim IIIOn the 24th of December 1761, a boy named Selim was born into the Topkapı Palace. His mother Mihrişah Sultan was an ethnic Georgian who later reformed…
- John Wilkinson (industrialist)John Wilkinson entered the world in Little Clifton, Cumberland, during 1728. His father Isaac worked as a potfounder at the local blast furnace.