List: 1763 births

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•  John Jacob Astor

  John Jacob Astor (July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848), born Johann Jakob or Johann Jacob Astor, was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States. He was the creator of the first trust in America, from which he made his fortune in fur trading, real estate, and opium.

  

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•  Charles XIV John of Sweden

  "Karl Johan" redirects here. See also Karl Johans gate, which is Oslo's main street. Charles XIV & III John, born Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, later renamed Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte (26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) was King of Sweden (as Karl XIV Johan) and King of Norway (as Karl III Johan) from 1818 until his death. He was also the first Sovereign Prince of Pontecorvo, Italy. French by birth, Bernadotte served a long career in the French Army.

  

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•  János Batsányi

  János Batsányi (May 11, 1763, Tapolca - May 12, 1845, Linz) was a Hungarian poet. In 1785, he published his first work, a patriotic poem, "The Valour of the Magyars". In the same year he obtained a job as clerk in the treasury of the Hungarian city of Kassa, and there, in conjunction with other two Hungarian patriots, edited the Magyar Museum, which was suppressed by the government in 1792.

  

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•  Joséphine de Beauharnais

  Joséphine de Beauharnais (23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French. Her first husband Alexandre de Beauharnais had been guillotined during the Reign of Terror, and she had been imprisoned in the Carmes prison until her release five days after Alexandre's execution. Through her daughter, Hortense, she was the maternal grandmother of Napoléon III.

  

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•  John Kinzie

  John Kinzie (December 3, 1763 – January 6, 1828) is known as Chicago’s first permanent white settler. Kinzie Street (400N) in Chicago is named after him. Kinzie was born in Quebec City, Canada to John McKenzie and Anne McKenzie. His father died before Kinzie was a year old, and his mother remarried. In 1773, he was apprenticed to George Farnham, a silversmith. Some of the jewelry Kinzie created has been found on archaeological digs in Ohio.

  

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•  Franz Danzi

  Franz Ignaz Danzi (June 15, 1763 – April 13, 1826) was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the noted Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi. Born in Schwetzingen, Franz Danzi worked in Mannheim, Munich, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, where he died. Danzi lived at a significant time in the history of European concert music.

  

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•  Guillaume Marie Anne Brune

  Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, 1st Comte Brune (13 March 1763 – 2 August 1815) was a French soldier and political figure who rose to Marshal of France. The son of a lawyer, he was born at Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze. Brune settled in Paris before the French Revolution, studied law, and became a political journalist. Following the French Revolution he joined the Cordeliers and was a friend of Georges Danton.

  

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•  Claude Chappe

  Claude Chappe (December 25, 1763 – January 23, 1805) was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. This was the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age, making Chappe the first telecom mogul with his "mechanical internet."

  

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•  Theobald Wolfe Tone

  

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•  Pierre Paul Royer-Collard

  Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (21 June 1763 - 2 September 1845), was a French statesman and philosopher, leader of the Doctrinaires group during the Bourbon Restoration (1814-1830).

  

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•  William Cobbett

  William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, who was born in Farnham, Surrey. He believed that reforming Parliament and abolishing the rotten boroughs would help to end the poverty of farm labourers, and he attacked the borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" relentlessly. He was also against the Corn Laws, a tax on imported grain.

  

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•  Karoline Schelling

  Caroline Schelling (September 2, 1763 — September 7, 1809), was a noted German intellectual. She was born at Göttingen, the daughter of the orientalist Michaelis. In 1784, she married a district medical officer named Böhmer, in Clausthal in the Harz. After his death, in 1788, she returned to Göttingen, where she became familiar with the poet Gottfried August Burger and the critic of the Romantic school, August Wilhelm Schlegel.

  

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•  John Molson

  John Molson (December 28, 1763 – January 11, 1836) was an English-speaking Quebecker who was a major brewer and entrepreneur in Canada, starting the Molson Brewing Company.

  

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•  Louis Nicolas Vauquelin

  Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (16 May 1763 - 14 November 1829), was a French pharmacist and chemist.

  

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•  Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois

  Claude Antoine, comte Prieur-Duvernois, commonly known as Prieur de la Côte-d'Or after his native département, to distinguish him from Pierre Louis Prieur (2 December 1763—11 August 1832), was a French engineer and a politician during and after the French Revolution.

  

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•  Pierre Gaspard Chaumette

  Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (24 May 1763 - 13 April 1794) was a French politician of the Revolutionary period.

  

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•  Lord Edward FitzGerald

  Lord Edward FitzGerald (15 October 1763 – 4 June 1798) was an Irish aristocrat and revolutionary. He was the fifth son of the 1st Duke of Leinster and the Duchess of Leinster and, was born at Carton House, near Dublin.

  

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•  Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany

  The Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (Frederick Augustus; 16 August 1763–5 January 1827) was a member of the Hanoverian and British Royal Family, the second eldest child, and second son, of King George III. From the death of his father in 1820 until his own death in 1827, he was the heir presumptive to his elder brother, King George IV, both to the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Hanover.

  

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•  Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac

  Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac (10 January 1763 – 24 March 1829) was a French politician and statesman.

  

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•  Jean-Baptiste Drouet (French revolutionary)

  Jean-Baptiste Drouet (January 8, 1763 – April 11, 1824) was a French politician of the 1789 Revolution, chiefly noted for the part he played in the arrest of King Louis XVI during the Flight to Varennes.

  

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•  Joseph Fesch

  Joseph Fesch (January 3, 1763 – May 13, 1839) was a French cardinal, closely associated with the family of Napoleon Bonaparte. He was also one of the most famous art collectors of his period.

  

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•  Samuel Rogers

  Samuel Rogers (30 July 1763 – 18 December 1855) was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. His recollections of these and other friends such as Charles James Fox are key sources for information about London artistic and literary life, with which he was intimate, and which he used his wealth to support.

  

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•  Bill Richmond

  Bill Richmond (1763–December 28, 1829) was an African American boxer, born a slave in Cuckold's Town, Staten Island, New York. His nickname was 'The Black Terror'. Richmond was the servant of Lord Percy, the Duke of Northumberland, during the American Revolutionary War, who took him to England in 1777. On September 26, 1776, Richmond was the hangman who executed Nathan Hale. Later, Richmond was sent to school in Yorkshire and apprenticed to a cabinet maker in York.

  

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•  Jean Victor Marie Moreau

  Jean Victor Marie Moreau (14 February 1763 – 2 September 1813) was a French general who helped Napoleon Bonaparte to power, but later became a rival and was banished to the United States.

  

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•  François-Joseph Talma

  François Joseph Talma (January 15, 1763 - 1826) was a French actor. He was born in Paris. His father, a dentist, moved to London, gave him a good English education. He returned to Paris, where for a year and a half he practised dentistry. His predilection for the stage was cultivated in amateur theatricals, and on November 21, 1787 he made his debut at the Comédie-Française as Seide in Voltaire's Mahomet.

  

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