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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Mathematician
17-Nov-1717 29-Oct-1783 Early work in partial differential equations
David Garrick
Actor
19-Feb-1717 20-Jan-1779 Manager of Drury Lane Theatre
Maria Theresa
Royalty
13-May-1717 28-Nov-1780 Archduchess of Austria
Pope Pius VI
Religion
27-Dec-1717 29-Aug-1799 Roman Catholic Pope, 1775-99
Aleksandr Sumarokov
Playwright
14-Nov-1717 12-Oct-1777 Founder of Russian classical drama
Horace Walpole
Author
24-Sep-1717 2-Mar-1797 Wrote the first Gothic novel
Johann Winckelmann
Archaeologist
9-Dec-1717 8-Jun-1768 Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums


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