Richard Butler (general)

•  Antoine Lavoisier

  Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794)), the father of modern chemistry, was a French noble prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology. He stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass, recognized and named oxygen (1778) and hydrogen (1783), abolished the phlogiston theory, helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature.

  

  30.8%
  

  23.1%
  

  46.2%
  
•  Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard

  Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard (September 11, 1743 – June 4, 1809), Danish artist, was born in Copenhagen, the son of Søren Abildgaard, an antiquarian draughtsman of repute, and Anne Margrethe Bastholm.

  

  40.0%
  

  40.0%
  

  20.0%
  
•  Thomas Jefferson

  Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and—for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States—one of the most influential Founding Fathers. Jefferson envisioned America as the force behind a great "Empire of Liberty" that would promote republicanism and counter the imperialism of the British Empire.

  

  46.2%
  

  38.5%
  

  15.4%
  
•  William Paley

  William Paley (July 1743 – 25 May 1805) was a British Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian. He is best known for his exposition of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his work Natural Theology, which made use of the watchmaker analogy.

  

  50.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Marquis de Condorcet

  Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (17 September 1743 – 28 March 1794), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he advocated a liberal economy, free and equal public education, constitutionalism, and equal rights for women and people of all races.

  

  40.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  40.0%
  
•  Joseph Banks

  Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS (13 February 1743 – 19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771). Banks is credited with the introduction to the Western world of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa, and the genus named after him, Banksia. Approximately 80 species of plants bear Banks's name.

  

  14.3%
  

  71.4%
  

  14.3%
  
•  Jean-Paul Marat

  Jean-Paul Marat (24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was a Swiss-born physician, political theorist and scientist better known as a radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. His journalism was renowned for its fiery character and uncompromising stance towards the new government, "enemies of the revolution" and basic reforms for the poorest members of society.

  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Johann Evangelist Haydn

  Johann Evangelist Haydn (December 23, 1743 – May 10, 1805) was a tenor singer of the classical era; the younger brother of the composers Joseph Haydn and Michael Haydn. He was often called "Hansl", a diminutive form of "Johann". Johann was the eleventh child of Mathias Haydn and Anna Maria Koller Haydn (Joseph was second, and Michael sixth). His career training may have been mixed.

  

  50.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Alessandro Cagliostro

  Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (2 June 1743 – 26 August 1795) was the alias for the occultist Giuseppe Balsamo (also called Joseph Balsamo), an Italian adventurer. McCalman frames the intrigue enveloping Cagliostro and his contemporaries thus: "His enemies would have been delighted at the neglect of his house.

  

  16.7%
  

  33.3%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert

  Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert (1743 – May 6, 1790) was a French general and military writer. Born at Montabaun, he accompanied his father in wars before he became a general himself. He published in 1770 an essay on tactics in London, which was very influential in his time.

  

  80.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  0.0%
  

• 1743 births by likeorhate
• 1791 deaths by likeorhate
• American military personnel killed in the American Indian Wars by likeorhate
• Continental Army officers from Pennsylvania by likeorhate
• United States Army generals by likeorhate
• Colonial Americans of the Northwest Indian War by likeorhate

Register now, and make your vote count more!

•  Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia

  Nicholas Romanovich Romanov, Prince of Russia is a claimant to the headship of Imperial House of Romanov and President of the Romanov Family Association. Although he is undoubtedly a descendant of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, his claimed titles and official membership in the former Imperial House are disputed by those who maintain that his parents' marriage violated the Laws of Imperial Russia.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Auxiliary Motor Minesweepers (YMS)

  Auxiliary Motor Minesweepers (YMS) were small yard-class minesweepers commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service during World War II. The YMS proved so successful as a type that it eventually became the basis for the AMS class of Navy minesweeper.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Roman Catholic Diocese of Susa

  The Italian Catholic diocese of Susa, in Piedmont, has existed since 1772. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Turin.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
• Amusement parks in South Africa by likeorhate
•  Enterprise episodes

  

  28.0%
  

  24.0%
  

  48.0%