In the year 1752, the first hospital in the United States opens its doors in Pennsylvania (Feb 10), the British Empire start using the Gregorian calendar, thus Sep 2 becomes Sep 13 (Sep 2), British Canadian colonists in Nova Scotia make a peace treaty with the Mi’kmaq tribe (Nov 22), the first Shakespeare play in America takes place in Williamsburg, Virginia (Dec 5), the first public zoo in the world, Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna, is founded - and all these fine people were born:
1752-0101 Betsy Ross* (b Griscom) entrepreneur/ creator of the American flag - Philadelphia, Province of Pennsylvania, British America (1836/84)
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1752-0118 John Nash* architect/ designed most of the Buckingham Palace - Lambeth, London, England (1835/83)
1752-0123 Muzio Clementi* Italian-British virtuoso pianist/piano manufacturer/composer - Rome, Papal States (1832/80)
1752-0131 Gouverneur Morris* statesman/a Founding Father of the United States - The Bronx, Province of New York, British America (1816/64)
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1752-0210 Olof Wibelius* lawyer/ civil servant/active i Finland - Södertälje, Kingdom of Sweden (1823/71)
1752-0216 Pudsey Dawson* merchant/ shipowner/Mayor of Liverpool - London, England (1816/64) Genealogy
1752-0221 Nathaniel Rochester* Revolutionary War soldier/land speculator/ founder of settlement which would become Rochester, New York - Westmoreland County, Colony of Virginia, British America (1831/79)
1752-0308 Johann David Schoepff* botanist/ zoologist/physician - Bayreuth, Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (1800/48)
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1752-0321 Mary Kies* inventor of a new technique of weaving straw with silk and thread to make hats - Killingly, Connecticut Colony, British America (1837/c. 84)
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1752-0402 Carl Ludwig Hablitz* Russian botanist/zoologist- Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia (1821/69)
1752-0404 Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours* painter - Geneva, Republic of Geneva (1809/57)
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1752-0422 Georg Joachim Göschen* publisher/ bookseller - Bremen (1828/75)
1752-0424 Henry Latimer* physician/ politician/senator - Newport, Delaware Ciolony, British America (1819/67)
1752-0505 Johann Tobias Mayer* German physicist - Göttingen, Electorate of Hanover (1830/78)
1752-0511 Friedrich Blumenbach* German physician/anthropologist/the “founder of racial classifications” - Gotha, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1840/87)
1752-0513 Michael Hughes* industrialist/ copper mining - Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales (1825/72)
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1752-0601 Mikko Mikonpoika Latva-Luhtasela** father of Juho Mikonpoika Latva-Luhtasela - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1821/68)
1752-0604 John Eager Howard* soldier/ politician - Baltimore County, Province of Maryland, British America (1827/75)
1752-0606 John Gabriel Jones* Kentucky pioneer/ statesman - Williamsburg, Colony of Virginia, British America (1776/)
1752-0611 Christian Graf von Haugwitz* German diplomat/statesman - Peucke bei Oels, Silesia (1832/79)
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1752-0707 Joseph Marie Jacquard* weaver/ merchant/ inventor - Lyon, Kingdom of France (1834/82)
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1752-0805 Johan Reinhold von Törne* Swedish military leader/active in Finland - Kirkkonummi, Sweden-Finland (1810/58)
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1752-0823 Ebenezer Elmer* physician/ politician - Cedarville, Province of New Jersey, British America (1843/91)
1752-0903 Thomas Kiempe* painter/ church decorator - Ylitornio, Sweden-Finland (1812/59)
1752-0908 Carl Stenborg* opera singer/composer/ theater director - Stockholm, Kingdom of Sweden (1813/60)
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1752-0924 Conrad Christopher Stökell* Swedish farmer/civil servant/active in Finland (1801/48)
1752-0926 Johan Julin* pharmacist/ naturalist/active in Finland - Västerås, Kingdom of Sweden (1820/67)
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1752-1015 Johan David Zander* violinist/ composer - Stockholm, Kingdom of Sweden (1796/43)
1752-1016 Adolph Freiherr Knigge* German writer/Freemason/leading member of the Order of the Illuminati - Bredenbeck, Lower Saxony (1796/43)
1752-1022 Antti Heikinpoika Vaittinen** (b Messo) father of Risto Antinpoika Vaittinen - Sweden-Finland (1806/53)
1752-1028 Jean Henri Simon* engraver/ soldier - Brussels, Belgium (1834/81)
1752-1028 Hendrik Jacob Wikar* explorer/ employed by Dutch East India Company/wrote about the Khoisan people in Africa - Kokkola, Sweden-Finland
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1752-1118 Johan Christoffer von Morian* lawyer/ farmer - Perniö, Sweden-Finland (1811/58)
1752-1119 George Rogers Clark* surveyor/ soldier/ militia officer - Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia, British America (1818/65)
1752-1120 Robert Wright* lawyer/ soldier/politician - Chestertown, Province of Maryland, British America (1826/73)
1752-1129 Philippe-André Grandidier* priest/ historian - Strasbourg, Alsace, France (1787/34)
1752-1129 Jemima Wilkinson* “The Public Universal Friend”/preacher/ evangelist - Cumberland, Rhode Island, British America (1819/66)
1752-1203 Leonard Gyllenhaal* military officer/ entomologist - Ribbingsberg, Kingdom of Sweden (1840/87)
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1752-1212 Nils von Rosenstein* civil servant/ philosopher - Uppsala, Kingdom of Sweden (1824/71)
1752-1216 John Faucheraud Grimké* planter/ attorney/associate judge - South Carolina, British America (1819/66)
1752-1221 Jean-François Houbigant* perfumer/ entrepreneur - Paris, Kingdom of France (1807/54)
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