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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Robert Burns
Poet
25-Jan-1759 21-Jul-1796 Most beloved Scottish poet
Alexander J. Dallas
Government
21-Jun-1759 16-Jan-1817 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1814-16
Georges Jacques Danton
Activist
26-Oct-1759 5-Apr-1794 Key figure in French Revolution
William Wyndham Grenville
Politician
25-Oct-1759 12-Jan-1834 UK Prime Minister, 1806-07
François Hanriot
Military
3-Dec-1759 28-Jul-1794 Led French revolutionary forces
Sarah Wentworth Morton
Poet
1759 14-May-1846 Ouabi
William Pitt the Younger
Head of State
28-May-1759 23-Jan-1806 UK Prime Minister
Friedrich von Schiller
Playwright
10-Nov-1759 9-May-1805 Wallenstein
William Thornton
Architect
20-May-1759 28-Mar-1828 First architect of the US Capitol
Mason Locke Weems
Author
11-Oct-1759 23-May-1825 Life of George Washington
William Wilberforce
Activist
24-Aug-1759 29-Jul-1833 Abolitionist activist and author
Mary Wollstonecraft
Author
27-Apr-1759 10-Sep-1797 Vindication of the Rights of Women


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