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Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish-English poet, playwright, and politician, Treasurer of the Navy (died 1816)
John André, English soldier and spy (died 1780)
Henry Knox, American general and politician, 1st United States Secretary of War (died 1806)
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (died 1810)
François de Neufchâteau, French academic and politician, French Minister of the Interior (died 1828)
Edward Jenner, English physician and microbiologist (died 1823)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (died 1832)
Cyrus Griffin, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 16th President of the Continental Congress (died 1810)
John Paul Jones, Scottish-American captain, early leader in the Continental Navy (died 1792)
Jean-François Rewbell, French lawyer and politician (died 1807)
Gaspard Monge, French mathematician and engineer (died 1818)
Thomas Heyward, Jr., American judge and politician (died 1809)
Thomas Heyward Jr., American judge and politician (died 1809)
Robert Calder, Scottish-English admiral (died 1818)
Oliver Ellsworth, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of the United States (died 1807)
Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier, designed the Ferguson rifle (died 1780)
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (died 1829)
Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (died 1819)