Famous People Born in 1735

Discover the most famous people born in 1735. The list includes people like John Adams, Paul Revere, Granville Sharp, Joseph Ducreux, Johann Christian Bach and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, military leaders, chemists and mathematicians born in 1735. This list includes people from United States, England, France and many more countries.

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John Adams

(2nd President of United States (1797-1801))

Birthdate: 30th October

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Braintree, Massachusetts, United States

Died: July 4, 1826

One of the Founding Fathers of America, John Adams was a statesman, attorney, and diplomat who served as the second president of the United States. He was a principal leader of the American Revolution. As a lawyer, he was devoted to the right to counsel and presumption of innocence. His administration has been favorably ranked by historians and scholars.

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Paul Revere

(American Military Officer & Silversmith Who Warned Boston-Area Residents that the British Were Coming During His Midnight Ride)

Birthdate: 1st January

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Died: May 10, 1818

Paul Revere was a silversmith from Boston and a Patriot in the American Revolution who is remembered for alerting his fellow Patriots, during a midnight ride, about the approaching British forces prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord. He remains immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Paul Revere's Ride.

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Johann Christian Bach

(Composer)

Birthdate: 5th September

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Leipzig, Germany

Died: January 1, 1782

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Joseph Ducreux

(Former Painter who was a successful portraitist at the court of Louis XVI of France)

Birthdate: 26th June

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Nancy, France

Died: July 24, 1802

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Birthdate: 10th November

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Durham, England

Died: July 6, 1813

Granville Sharp was an activist who became one of the first English campaigners to support abolitionism in the UK. Sharp devised a plan to settle people in slavery and black people in Sierra Leone. He also established the St George's Bay Company and is thus considered a founding father of Sierra Leone. Sharp also worked towards correcting other social injustices.

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Button Gwinnett

(Politician)

Birthdate: 30th November

Birthplace: Down Hatherley, Gloucestershire, Great Britain

Died: May 19, 1777

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Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond

(Politician)

Birthdate: 22nd February

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Westminster, London, England

Died: December 29, 1806

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J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur

(Writer)

Birthdate: 31st December

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Caen, France

Died: November 12, 1813

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Thomas Conway

(Military General)

Birthdate: 27th February

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Ireland

Died: 1800 AD

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Ahmad al-Tijani

(Theologian)

Birthdate: 30th November

Birthplace: Aïn Madhi, Algeria

Died: 1815 AD

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Crown Prince Sado

(Prince)

Birthdate: 13th February

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea

Died: July 12, 1762

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Ignacy Krasicki

(Polish Poet and Archbishop of Gniezno)

Birthdate: 3rd February

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Dubiecko, Poland

Died: March 14, 1801

Ignacy Krasicki was a Primate of Poland, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist, translator, critic of the clergy and a prominent Enlightenment poet of Poland. The most notable works of Krasicki are his Fables and Parables and Satires. The first Polish novel, The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom, written in the form of a diary by Krasicki is a milestone in Polish literature.

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Claude Martin

(Army officer who served in the French)

Birthdate: 5th January

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Lyon, France

Died: September 13, 1800

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Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick

(Prince)

Birthdate: 9th October

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Wolfenbüttel, Germany

Died: November 10, 1806

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Nancy Hart

(American Spy)

Birthdate: 30th November

Birthplace: North Carolina, United States

Died: 1830 AD

Legendary heroine of the American Revolutionary War, Nancy Hart was a skilled frontierswoman and herbalist from Georgia. Folklore has it that she was a 6-feet tall, muscular, red-headed woman, known as “war woman” to the locals. She is said to have fought and spied dressed as a man.

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Jesse Ramsden

(Mathematician)

Birthdate: 6th October

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Salterhebble, Halifax, England

Died: November 5, 1800

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Torbern Bergman

(Swedish Chemist and Mineralogist Known for His Research on the Chemistry of Metals, Especially 'Bismut'h and 'Nickel')

Birthdate: 20th March

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Katrineberg, Låstad parish, Sweden

Died: July 8, 1784

Torbern Olof Bergman was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist. He is best remembered for his 1775 work Dissertation on Elective Attractions, which contains the largest chemical affinity tables. He also contributed immensely to the development of quantitative analysis. Torbern Olof Bergman also taught physics and mathematics at the University of Uppsala.

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John Carroll

(American Prelate of the Catholic Church)

Birthdate: 8th January

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Upper Marlboro, Maryland, United States

Died: December 3, 1815

Born into a wealthy Maryland family and educated in France and Belgium, John Carroll is remembered as the first American Roman Catholic bishop and the first archbishop of Baltimore. He also established Georgetown University. Though he owned more than 100 slaves, he advocated for humane treatment of slaves.

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François Christophe de Kellermann

(General)

Birthdate: 28th May

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Strasbourg, France

Died: September 23, 1820

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Johann Karl August Musäus

(German Writer of Fairy Tales)

Birthdate: 29th March

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Jena, Germany

Died: October 28, 1787

Johann Karl August Musäus was a popular 18th-century German author. He was among the first collectors of German folk stories and is best known for his Volksmärchen der Deutschen, a collection of German fairy tales retold as satires. Besides writing, he also taught ancient history and languages at the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium in Weimar. An asteroid has been named after him. 

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Robert Raikes

(Philanthropist)

Birthdate: 14th September

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Gloucester, England

Died: April 5, 1811

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Ivan Gannibal

(Abram Petrovich Gannibal's son)

Birthdate: 5th June

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Karjaküla, Estonia

Died: October 12, 1801

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Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne

(Field Marshal)

Birthdate: 23rd May

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Brussels, Belgium

Died: December 13, 1814

Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne was a Belgian Field Marshal, writer, and intellectual. As a field officer, Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne fought in many important battles during the famous Seven Years' War. A prolific writer, de Ligne also authored a great volume of work.

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James Tassie

(Artist)

Birthdate: 30th November

Birthplace: Pollokshaws, Scotland

Died: 1799 AD

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Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde

(Mathematician)

Birthdate: 28th February

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Paris, France

Died: January 1, 1796

Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde initially made a name for himself as a violinist. He drifted to mathematics much later, at age 35, and  became famous for his determinant theory in mathematics and for solving a complex math problem called The Knight's Tour. His memoirs are invaluable to understanding math.

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Andreas Peter Bernstorff

(Danish Diplomat and Political Leader)

Birthdate: 28th August

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Hanover, Germany

Died: June 21, 1797

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Claude-Carloman de Rulhière

(Poet)

Birthdate: 12th June

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Bondy, France

Died: January 30, 1791

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James Beattie

(Linguist, Poet, Translator, Philosopher, Writer)

Birthdate: 25th October

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Laurencekirk, United Kingdom

Died: August 18, 1803

James Beattie was a Scottish philosopher, moralist, educator, and poet. His philosophical writings and poetry, which opposed slavery, are widely viewed as the primary source of Immanuel Kant's knowledge of David Hume. James Beattie, who was among the members that established the Royal Society of Edinburgh, is one of the 16 personalities depicted on the famous Scott Monument.

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John Langhorne

(Poet)

Birthdate: 28th February

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: England

Died: April 1, 1779

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Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton

(Politician)

Birthdate: 28th September

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: England

Died: March 14, 1811

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Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti

(Zoologist, Herpetologist)

Birthdate: 4th December

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Vienna, Austria

Died: February 17, 1805

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Duchess Christiane of Mecklenburg

(Princess)

Birthdate: 6th December

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Unteres Schloß, Mirow, Germany

Died: August 31, 1794

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John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent

(British Politician and Naval Officer)

Birthdate: 9th January

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Meaford Hall, Staffordshire, England

Died: March 14, 1823

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Ganioda'yo

(Religious leader)

Birthdate: 30th November

Birthplace: Ganawaugus, New York, United States

Died: August 10, 1815

Ganioda'yo, better known as Handsome Lake, was a Seneca religious leader. A leader and prophet, Handsome Lake played an important role in revitalizing traditional religion among the People of the Longhouse. His teachings aimed at popularizing the traditional religious beliefs of his people, which had been marred by colonization. His teachings were later published and are practiced even today.

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Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington

(Politician)

Birthdate: 19th July

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Meath, Ireland

Died: May 22, 1781

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Charles William, Prince of Nassau-Usingen

(Prince)

Birthdate: 9th November

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Usingen, Germany

Died: May 17, 1803

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Kpengla

(Kingdom of Dahomey)

Birthdate: 30th November

Birthplace: Benin

Died: 1789 AD

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Tobias Furneaux

(Navigator)

Birthdate: 21st August

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Plymouth, England

Died: September 18, 1781

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Dmitry Levitzky

(Painter)

Birthdate: 30th April

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Ukraine

Died: April 17, 1822

One of the best portrait painters to have existed during the reign of Catherine the Great, Dmitry Levitzky was taught the basics of art by his engraver father. He had also mastered gravure printing. Though he had earned many commissions in his lifetime, he didn’t earn enough and died amid poverty.