In the year 1747, the first venereal diseases clinic opens in London (Jan 31), a combined French and Indian force attacks and defeats British troops at Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia (Feb 11), the Knowles Riot breaks out in Boston, protesting impressment into the British Royal Navy (Nov 17), James Lind’s experiment begins to prove that citrus fruits prevent scurvy, remains of the Temple of Apollo are discovered in Malta - and all these fine people were born:
1747-0110 Abraham-Louis Breguet* horologist/master watchmaker - Neuchatel, Prussia (1823/76)
1747-0115 John Aikin* doctor/writer - Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, England (1822/75)
1747-0119 Johann Elert Bode* German astronomer/determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested its name - Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (1826/79)
1747-0126 Samuel Parr* schoolmaster/ writer/minister - Harrow on the Hill, England (1825/78)
1747-0203 Samuel Osgood* merchant/statesman – Andover, Massachusetts, British America (1813/66)
1747-0222 Otto Henrik Nordenskiöld* Swedish naval admiral/baron - Mäntsälä, Sweden-Finland (1832/85)
1747-0413 Philippe Égalité* (b Louis Philippe Joseph d’Orléans) Duke of Orleans/politician - Château de Saint-Cloud, France (1793/46)
1747-0505 Leopold II* Holy Roman Emperor - Vienna, Austria, Holy Roman Empire (1792/44)
1747-0623 Michele Troja* physician - Andria, Italy (1827/79)
1747-0702 Rose Bertin* fashion designer - Abbeville, France (1813/66)
1747-0706 John Paul Jones* Scottish-American naval commander - Arbigland, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland (1792/45)
1747-0731 Christoph Meiners* German philosopher/historian/writer - Warstade, Holy Roman Empire (1810/62)
1747-0804 Olfert Fischer* officer in the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy /fought against Lord Nelson - Copenhagen, Denmark (1829/81)
1747-0808 Adolf Tandefelt* baron/civil servant - Hartola, Sweden-Finland (1822/74)
1747-0909 Thomas Coke* first American Methodist Bishop - Brecon, Wales (1814/66)
1747-0912 Caleb Brewster* patriot spy during the American Revolutionary War - Setauket, New York, British America (1827/79)
1747-1006 Jean-François Rewbell* lawyer/ diplomat/politician - Colmar, Alsace, France (1807/60)
1747-1103 Hans Henrik Wallerian* notary/senator - Vehkalahti, Sweden-Finland (1810/63)
1747-1114 Martti Kitunen* bear hunter - Virrat, Sweden-Finland (1833/85)
1747-1122 Ward Nicholas Boylston* (b Hallowell) merchant/ philanthropist/ benefactor of Harvard University – Boston, Massachusetts, British America (1828)
1747-1231 Gottfried August Bürger* German poet - Molmerswende, Principality of Halberstadt (1794/46)
Updated 31.3.2021
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