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Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for War (born 1742)
Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish general and politician (born 1755)
Chevalier d'Eon, French diplomat and spy (born 1728)
Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (born 1740)
Matthew Boulton, English businessman and engineer, co-founded Boulton and Watt (born 1728)
Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, French general (born 1775)
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1738)
Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (born 1721)
Elijah Craig, American minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey (born 1738)
John Claiborne, American lawyer and politician (born 1777)
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (born 1725)
Eliphalet Dyer, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (born 1721)
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (born 1736)
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (born 1763)
Charles James Fox, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (born 1749)
Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (born 1758)
Henry Knox, American general and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of War (born 1750)
John Graves Simcoe, English general and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (born 1752)