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Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (born 1699)
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1730)
James Abercrombie, Scottish general and politician (born 1706)
John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley, British parliamentarian (born 1719)
Charles Hardy, English-American admiral and politician, 29th Colonial Governor of New York (born 1714)
William Warburton, English bishop and critic (born 1698)
Eleazar Wheelock, American minister and academic, founded Dartmouth College (born 1711)
John Hart, American lawyer and politician (born 1711)
Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, English lawyer and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (born 171
Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Canadian-French politician, Governor General of New France (born 1698)
Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire…
Johan Augustin Mannerheim, Swedish nobleman and military leader (born 1706)
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1708)
Edward Wortley Montagu, English explorer and author (born 1713)
Richard Peters, English lawyer and minister (born 1704)
John Pitcairn, Scottish-English soldier (born 1722)
Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-English general (born 1715)
George Edwards, English biologist and ornithologist (born 1693)
Jean-Antoine Nollet, French minister, physicist, and academic (born 1700)