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Pío de Tristán age 5
William Hull age 25
Roundhead age 19
James Winchester age 27
George Madison age 16
James Givins age 20
Zebulon Pike age 5 months
Isaac Chauncey age 3 months
John Vincent age 15
John Harvey age 1
Richard Pearson age 48
Green Clay age 21
William Dudley age 13
Philip Broke age 2
Jacob Brown age 4
Gordon Drummond age 6
Augustine Prévost age 55
John Maitland age 47
William Moultrie age 48
William Woodford age 44
Abraham Buford age 31
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just age 11
Karl August von Hardenberg age 29
Wilhelm von Humboldt age 11
Friedrich von Gentz age 15
Ercole Consalvi age 22
Emperor Kōkaku age 7
Princess Yoshiko (consort of Kōkaku) age 2 months
Elizabeth Temkina age 3
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia age 1 month
Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) age 19
Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden) age 4 months
Archduke Joseph of Austria (Palatine of Hungary) age 3
Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin age 12 months
Esma Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III) age 53
Hatice Sultan (daughter of Mustafa III) age 10
Şah Sultan (daughter of Mustafa III) age 18
Beyhan Sultan (daughter of Mustafa III) age 13
Mihrişah Sultan (mother of Selim III) age 34
Adilşah Kadın age 31
Esma Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid I) age 10 months
Dürrüşehvar Hanım (daughter of Abdülhamid I) age 12
Melek Mehmed Pasha age 60
Küçük Hüseyin Pasha age 22
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 43
Friedrich Wilhelm, Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg age 46
François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt age 45
Charles François Dumouriez age 40
Prince Josias of Coburg age 41
Jean Nicolas Houchard age 40
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany age 15
Wilhelm von Freytag age 59
Lazare Carnot age 26
Jacques Ferrand age 32
William I of the Netherlands age 6
Jacques François Dugommier age 40
Jean François Carteaux age 28
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe age 53
Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse age 29
Wilhelm von Wartensleben age 44
Michel de Beaupuy age 23
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent age 44
William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock age 25
Sir Charles Thompson, 1st Baronet age 39
Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan age 47
Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer age 31
Paul Grenier age 11
Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald age 13
Jean-Baptiste Salme age 12
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier age 11
Jean Thomas Guillaume Lorge age 11
Alexander Rimsky-Korsakov age 25
Alexey Ivanovich Gorchakov age 10
Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken age 26
Hyde Parker age 40
Yakov Kulnev age 15
Nicolas Oudinot age 12
Julius von Grawert age 32
Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg age 19
Magnus Gustav von Essen age 19
Ivan Fyodorovich Emme age 15
Alexander Tormasov age 26
Józef Poniatowski age 16
Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr age 15
Fabian Steinheil age 16
Dmitry Dokhturov age 22
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov age 2
Mikhail Miloradovich age 7
Dmitry Golitsyn age 7
Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz age 24
Jacques Lauriston age 11
Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta age 6
Dominique Vandamme age 8
Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy age 9
Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien age 18
Carl Philipp von Wrede age 12
Zahar Dimitrijevič Olsufjev age 7
Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf age 17
Peter Mikhailovich Kaptzevich age 7
Étienne Maurice Gérard age 6
Johann von Thielmann age 14
Bernard Dubourdieu age 6
William Campbell age 34
Benjamin Cleveland age 41
Isaac Shelby age 28
Patrick Ferguson age 35
Abraham de Peyster age 26
Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet age 58
James Wilkinson age 22
John Parker Boyd age 14
Leonard Covington age 10
Princess Chŏnghwa age 449
Lady Hyegyŏng age 43
Princess Hwawan age 42
Queen Jeongsun age 33
Uibin Seong age 25
Queen Hyoui age 25
Princess Hwaryeong age 26
Princess Ch'ŏngyŏn age 25
Princess Ch'ŏngsŏn age 23
Hwabin Yun age 14
Wonbin Hong age 12
Prince Sanggye age 10
Subin Park age 9
Josiah Bartlett age 49
William Whipple age 49
Matthew Thornton age 65
Stephen Hopkins age 72
William Ellery age 51
Roger Sherman age 58
Samuel Huntington age 47
William Williams age 48
Oliver Wolcott age 52
Francis Lewis age 66
Richard Stockton age 48
John Witherspoon age 56
Francis Hopkinson age 41
Abraham Clark age 53
Robert Morris age 45
Benjamin Rush age 33
George Clymer age 40
James Smith age 59
George Taylor age 63
James Wilson age 36
George Ross age 49
Caesar Rodney age 50
George Read age 45
Thomas McKean age 45
Samuel Chase age 38
William Paca age 38
Thomas Stone age 36
Charles Carroll of Carrollton age 41
George Wythe age 53
Richard Henry Lee age 47
Benjamin Harrison V age 53
Thomas Nelson Jr. age 40
Francis Lightfoot Lee age 44
Carter Braxton age 42
William Hooper age 36
Joseph Hewes age 49
John Penn age 38
Edward Rutledge age 29
Thomas Heyward Jr. age 32
Arthur Middleton age 36
Lyman Hall age 55
George Walton age 38
John Dickinson age 47
John Hanson age 58
Daniel Carroll age 48
Empress Xiaoshurui age 18
David Hartley age 47
Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia age 63
Louisa Ulrika of Prussia age 58
Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg age 55
Prince Henry of Prussia (1726–1802) age 53
Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia age 49
Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia age 64
Princess Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 41
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 39
Frederick Augustus, Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Oels age 38
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia age 32
Augusta Dorothea, Abbess of Gandersheim age 29
Leopold of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 26
Charles I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 65
Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 42
Princess Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 33
Princess Anna Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt age 41
Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland age 28
Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg age 25
Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange age 27
Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel age 57
Friedrich von der Trenck age 53
Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel age 53
Princess Louise of Prussia (1770–1836) age 9
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772–1806) age 6
Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach age 43
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern age 63
Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth age 46
Frederick I of Württemberg age 24
Duke Louis of Württemberg age 22