List: 1758 births

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•  Charles d'Abancour

  Charles Xavier Joseph de Franque Ville d'Abancour (4 July 1758 in Douai – 9 September 1792 in Versailles) was a French statesman, minister to Louis XVI and a nephew of Charles Alexandre de Calonne.

  

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•  Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

  Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an English flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. He won several victories, including the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, during which he was killed. Nelson was born into a moderately prosperous Norfolk family and joined the navy through the influence of his uncle, Maurice Suckling.

  

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•  James Monroe

  James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was the 5th President of the United States, serving two terms from 1817 to 1825. His presidency was marked both by an "Era of Good Feelings" – a period of relatively little partisan strife – and later by the Panic of 1819 and a fierce national debate over the admission of the Missouri Territory.

  

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•  Noah Webster

  Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, word enthusiast, and editor. He has been called the “Father of American Scholarship and Education. ” His “Blue-Backed Speller” books were used to teach spelling and reading to five generations of American children.

  

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•  Maximilien Robespierre

  Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794) is one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. He largely dominated the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror, which ended with his arrest and execution in 1794.

  

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•  Joseph Billings

  Joseph Billings (c. 1758 - 1806) was an English navigator and explorer. In 1785, the Russian government of Catherine II commissioned a new expedition in search for the Northeast Passage, led by English officer Joseph Billings, who had previously sailed with Captain Cook, and the Russian officer Gavril Sarychev as his deputy. This enterprise operated till 1795.

  

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•  André Masséna

  André Masséna (in Italian Andrea Massena) 1st Duc de Rivoli, 1st Prince d'Essling (May 6, 1758–April 4, 1817) was a French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is considered by military historians as one of the greatest field commanders in history and is often ranked among generals of his generation second only to Napoleon Bonaparte himself. Napoleon said of Masséna: he was "the greatest name of my military Empire. " According to Donald D.

  

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•  Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers

  Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers (October 11, 1758 – March 2, 1840) was a German physician and astronomer.

  

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•  Charles Lee (Attorney General)

  Charles Lee (1758 – June 24, 1815) was an American lawyer from Virginia. He served as United States Attorney General from 1795 until 1801. Charles was born to Henry (1729-1787) and Lucy (Grymes) Lee on his father's plantation of Leesylvania in Prince William County, Virginia. He was the third of eleven children and a younger brother of General Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee. Another brother was Congressman Richard Bland Lee. A third cousin was Zachary Taylor.

  

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•  Emperor Go-Momozono

  Emperor Go-Momozono (後桃園天皇 Go-Momozono-tennō) (August 5, 1758 - December 16, 1779) was the 118th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned from May 23, 1771 until his death on December 16, 1779. He was succeeded by his second cousin, Emperor Kōkaku. His personal name was Hidehito (英仁).

  

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•  Jean-Jacques Dessalines

  Jean-Jacques Dessalines (20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1801 constitution. He was autocratic in his rule and crowned himself Emperor of Haïti in 1805. He also was a great-grandfather of Cincinnatus Leconte, who served as President of Haiti from 1911 to 1912. Beginning as Governor-General, Dessalines later named himself Emperor Jacques I of Haiti (1804–1806).

  

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•  Armand Gensonné

  Armand Gensonné (10 August 1758 – 31 October 1793) was a French politician. The son of a military surgeon, he was born in Bordeaux, Gascony, and studied Law before the outbreak of the French Revolution, becoming lawyer of the parlement of Bordeaux. In 1790 he became procureur of the Bordeaux Commune, and in July 1791 was elected by the newly created départment of the Gironde a member of the court of appeal. In the same year he was elected deputy for the départment to the Legislative Assembly.

  

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•  James Stephen (politician)

  James Stephen (30 June 1758 – 10 October 1832) was the principal English lawyer associated with the abolitionist movement. Stephen was born in Poole, Dorset; the family home later being removed to Stoke Newington. He married twice and was the father of Sir James Stephen and grandfather of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen and Sir Leslie Stephen.

  

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•  Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès

  Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès (February 1, 1758 – November 24, 1805) was a French orator and politician.

  

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•  Silvestre de Sacy

  Antoine Isaac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy (21 September 1758 – 21 February 1838), was a French linguist and orientalist. His son Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy became a journalist.

  

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•  Samuel Whitbread

  

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•  John Hoppner

  John Hoppner (April 4?, 1758 - January 23, 1810), English portrait-painter, was born in Whitechapel. His father was of German extraction, and his mother was one of the German attendants at the royal palace. Hoppner was consequently brought early under the notice and received the patronage of George III, whose regard for him gave rise to unfounded scandal.

  

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•  Fisher Ames

  Fisher Ames (April 9, 1758 – July 4, 1808) was a Representative in the United States Congress from the 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts.

  

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•  Thomas Picton

  Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton GCB (August 1758 – 18 June 1815) was a British Army officer from Wales who fought in a number of campaigns for Britain, and rose to the rank of lieutenant general. According to the historian Alessandro Barbero, Picton was "respected for his courage and feared for his irascible temperament.

  

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•  Alexander Nasmyth

  Alexander Nasmyth (9 September 1758–10 April 1840) was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter, often called the “father of Scottish landscape painting".

  

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•  Ryōkan

  Ryōkan Taigu (1758–1831) was a quiet and eccentric Sōtō Zen Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a hermit. Ryōkan is remembered for his poetry and calligraphy, which present the essence of Zen life.

  

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•  Georg Carl von Döbeln

  Georg Carl von Döbeln (29 April 1758 – 16 February 1820) was a Swedish friherre (baron), Lieutenant General and war hero. Georg Carl was born at the Stora Torpa manor in Segerstads parish in Västergötland to Johan Jakob von Döbeln and Anna Maria Lindgren. When von Döbeln was eight years old the father died and he was put in school by relatives with the aim to become a priest. The boy however, showed affinity for a military life and he was enrolled at the Karlskrona naval academy in 1773.

  

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•  Philip Gidley King

  Captain Philip Gidley King RN (23 April 1758 – 3 September 1808) was a British naval officer and colonial administrator. He is best known as the official founder of the first European settlement on Norfolk Island and as the third Governor of New South Wales.

  

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•  Franz Joseph Gall

  Franz Joseph Gall (9 March 1758 – 22 August 1828) was a neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain. Gall was born in Baden, in the village of Tiefenbronn to a wealthy Roman Catholic wool merchant. The Galls had been the leading family in the area for over a century. As the second eldest son, he was intended for the priesthood but chose instead to study medicine at the University of Strasbourg.

  

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•  Watkin Tench

  Lieutenant-General Watkin Tench (6 November 1758 – 7 May 1833) was a British Marine officer who is best known for publishing two books describing his experiences in the First Fleet, which established the first settlement in Australia in 1788. His two accounts, "Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay" and "Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson" provide a fascinating and entertaining account of the arrival and first four years of the colony.

  

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