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People

William Dudley age 12
Philip Broke age 1
Jacob Brown age 3
Gordon Drummond age 5
Augustine Prévost age 54
John Maitland age 46
William Moultrie age 47
William Woodford age 43
Abraham Buford age 31
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just age 10
Karl August von Hardenberg age 28
Wilhelm von Humboldt age 11
Friedrich von Gentz age 14
Ercole Consalvi age 21
Emperor Kōkaku age 6
Elizabeth Temkina age 3
Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) age 18
Archduke Joseph of Austria (Palatine of Hungary) age 2
Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 1 month
Esma Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III) age 52
Saliha Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III) age 63
Hatice Sultan (daughter of Mustafa III) age 10
Şah Sultan (daughter of Mustafa III) age 17
Beyhan Sultan (daughter of Mustafa III) age 12
Mihrişah Sultan (mother of Selim III) age 33
Adilşah Kadın age 30
Esma Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid I) born 1778-07-17
Dürrüşehvar Hanım (daughter of Abdülhamid I) age 11
Melek Mehmed Pasha age 59
Küçük Hüseyin Pasha age 21
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 42
Friedrich Wilhelm, Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg age 45
François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt age 44
Charles François Dumouriez age 39
Prince Josias of Coburg age 40
Jean Nicolas Houchard age 39
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany age 14
Wilhelm von Freytag age 58
Lazare Carnot age 25
Jacques Ferrand age 31
William I of the Netherlands age 5
Jacques François Dugommier age 39
Jean François Carteaux age 27
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe age 52
Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse age 28
Wilhelm von Wartensleben age 43
Michel de Beaupuy age 23
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent age 43
William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock age 25
Sir Charles Thompson, 1st Baronet age 38
Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan age 47
Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer age 30
Paul Grenier age 10
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald age 12
Jean-Baptiste Salme age 11
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier age 10
Jean Thomas Guillaume Lorge age 10
Alexander Rimsky-Korsakov age 24
Alexey Ivanovich Gorchakov age 9
Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken age 25
Hyde Parker age 39
Yakov Kulnev age 14
Nicolas Oudinot age 11
Julius von Grawert age 31
Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg age 18
Magnus Gustav von Essen age 18
Ivan Fyodorovich Emme age 14
Alexander Tormasov age 25
Józef Poniatowski age 15
Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr age 14
Fabian Steinheil age 15
Dmitry Dokhturov age 21
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov age 1
Mikhail Miloradovich age 6
Dmitry Golitsyn age 6
Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz age 23
Jacques Lauriston age 10
Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta age 5
Dominique Vandamme age 7
Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy age 8
Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien age 17
Carl Philipp von Wrede age 11
Zahar Dimitrijevič Olsufjev age 6
Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf age 16
Peter Mikhailovich Kaptzevich age 6
Étienne Maurice Gérard age 5
Johann von Thielmann age 13
Bernard Dubourdieu age 5
William Campbell age 33
Benjamin Cleveland age 40
Isaac Shelby age 27
Patrick Ferguson age 34
Abraham de Peyster age 25
Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet age 57
James Wilkinson age 21
John Parker Boyd age 13
Leonard Covington age 9
Princess Chŏnghwa age 448
Lady Hyegyŏng age 42
Princess Hwawan age 41
Queen Jeongsun age 32
Uibin Seong age 24
Queen Hyoui age 24
Princess Hwaryeong age 25
Princess Ch'ŏngyŏn age 24
Princess Ch'ŏngsŏn age 22
Hwabin Yun age 13
Wonbin Hong age 12
Prince Sanggye age 9
Subin Park age 8
Josiah Bartlett age 48
William Whipple age 48
Matthew Thornton age 64
Stephen Hopkins age 71
William Ellery age 50
Roger Sherman age 57
Samuel Huntington age 47
William Williams age 47
Oliver Wolcott age 51
Francis Lewis age 65
Richard Stockton age 47
John Witherspoon age 55
Francis Hopkinson age 40
John Hart age 67
Abraham Clark age 52
Robert Morris age 44
Benjamin Rush age 32
George Clymer age 39
James Smith age 58
George Taylor age 62
James Wilson age 35
George Ross age 48
Caesar Rodney age 49
George Read age 44
Thomas McKean age 44
Samuel Chase age 37
William Paca age 37
Thomas Stone age 35
Charles Carroll of Carrollton age 40
George Wythe age 52
Richard Henry Lee age 46
Benjamin Harrison V age 52
Thomas Nelson Jr. age 39
Francis Lightfoot Lee age 43
Carter Braxton age 41
William Hooper age 36
Joseph Hewes age 48
John Penn age 37
Edward Rutledge age 28
Thomas Heyward Jr. age 31
Thomas Lynch Jr. age 28
Arthur Middleton age 36
Lyman Hall age 54
George Walton age 37
John Dickinson age 46
John Hanson age 57
Daniel Carroll age 48
Empress Xiaoshurui age 17
David Hartley age 46
Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia age 62
Louisa Ulrika of Prussia age 58
Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg age 54
Prince Henry of Prussia (1726–1802) age 52
Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia age 48
Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia age 63
Princess Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 40
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 38
Frederick Augustus, Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Oels age 37
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia age 31
Augusta Dorothea, Abbess of Gandersheim age 28
Leopold of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 25
Charles I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 65
Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 41
Princess Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 32
Princess Anna Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 40
Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland age 28
Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg age 24
Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange age 26
Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 56
Friedrich von der Trenck age 52
Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel age 52
Princess Louise of Prussia (1770–1836) age 8
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772–1806) age 5
Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach age 42
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern age 62
Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth age 45
Frederick I of Württemberg age 23
Duke Louis of Württemberg age 21
Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1758–1822) age 19
Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg age 16
Duchess Frederica of Württemberg age 12
Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg age 11
Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1771–1833) age 7
Duke Ferdinand Frederick Augustus of Württemberg age 14
Frederick II Eugene of Württemberg age 46
Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel age 57
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands age 3
Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia age 11
Prince Louis Charles of Prussia age 4
Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt age 26