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Wilhelm von Freytag 1720–1798 · German officer Louisa Ulrika of Prussia 1720–1782 · Swedish queen Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel 1720–1785 · Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) from 1760 to 1785 Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet 1720–1796 · British politician Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet 1721–1811 · Royal Navy admiral John Hanson 1721–1783 · American merchant and public official Roger Sherman 1721–1793 · Early American lawyer and politician, Founding Father of the United States Johann de Kalb 1721–1780 · American general Peyton Randolph 1721–1775 Jezzar Pasha 1722–1804 · 18th-century Ottoman governor Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 1722–1780 · Prussian princess John Burgoyne 1722–1792 · British lieutenant general; commander of the northern army that surrendered at Saratoga. Prince Augustus William of Prussia 1722–1758 · German general Comte de Grasse 1722–1788 · François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse. French admiral; his fleet's blockade of Chesapeake Bay made the York... Samuel Adams 1722–1803 · Boston politician and organiser of resistance to British rule, a leader of the Sons of Liberty and a signer... Francis Smith 1723–1791 · British army officer John Witherspoon 1723–1794 · Scottish-American Presbyterian minister and Founding Father of the United States Adam Smith 1723–1790 · Scottish economist and philosopher whose The Wealth of Nations (1776) founded modern economics. Augustine Prévost 1723–1786 · British Army general of Genevan origin Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg 1723–1787 · German princess-abbess and composer Henry Laurens 1724–1792 Lyman Hall 1724–1790 · American physician Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester 1724–1808 · British general and governor of Quebec Heinrich von Breymann 1725–1777 · German army officer Richard Prescott 1725–1788 · British Army general John Morton 1725–1777 · Farmer, surveyor, and jurist from the Province of Pennsylvania Allan Maclean of Torloisk 1725–1798 · British Army general Lachlan McIntosh 1725–1806 · American general Abdul Hamid I 1725–1789 · 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1774–1789) Comte de Rochambeau 1725–1807 · Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau. French lieutenant general; commander of the French e... Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves 1725–1802 · Royal Navy admiral George Wythe 1726–1806 · First American law professor, a noted classics scholar, a Founding Father of the United States and a Virgin... Prince Henry of Prussia (1726–1802) 1726–1802 · Prince of Prussia Abraham Clark 1726–1794 · American politician Friedrich von der Trenck 1726–1794 · Prussian army officer, adventurer, and author William Prescott 1726–1795 · Continental army soldier Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel 1726–1808 · Prussian princess José de Solano y Bote 1726–1806 · Spanish admiral Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe 1726–1799 · Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet Esma Sultan (daughter of Ahmed III) 1726–1788 · Ottoman princess, daughter of Ahmed III Benjamin Harrison V 1726–1791 · American planter and merchant Lewis Morris 1726–1798 · New York landowner and signer of the Declaration of Independence Victor Amadeus III 1726–1796 · King of Sardinia from 1773 who lost Savoy and Nice to revolutionary France. Oliver Wolcott 1726–1797 · American politician, Connecticut Friedrich Baum 1727–1777 · German army officer John Campbell, of Strachur 1727–1806 · British Army general Princess Hwapyeong 1727–1748 · Daughter of Yeongjo of Joseon. Horatio Gates 1727–1806 · Continental Army general; victor at Saratoga, defeated at Camden Empress Xiaoyichun 1727–1775 · Consort of the Qianlong Emperor and mother of the Jiaqing Emperor, honoured as empress after her death. William Ellery 1727–1820 · American politician and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg 1728–1793 · Duke of Württemberg Peter III of Russia 1728–1762 · Emperor of Russia for six months in 1762, overthrown by his wife, who took the throne as Catherine the Great. Zübeyde Sultan 1728–1756 · Daughter of Ahmed III John Stark 1728–1822 · American Revolutionary War general from New Hampshire Caesar Rodney 1728–1784 · American politician Sir Francis Samuel Drake, 1st Baronet 1729–1789 · Officer in the Royal Navy Catherine the Great 1729–1796 · Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She expanded the empire to the Black Sea and into Poland and promoted ... Michael von Melas 1729–1806 · Austrian general William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe 1729–1814 · William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729–1814) was a British Army officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of ... Louis-Antoine de Bougainville 1729–1811 · French admiral and explorer Josiah Bartlett 1729–1795 · American physician and judge, signatory of the Declaration of Independence Charles Mawhood 1729–1780 · British Army officer