Stockholm Palace
In the year 1754, the French and Indian War begins when the 22-year old George Washington leads a company of militia from the Colony of Virginia, in an ambush on a force of 35 French Canadians (May 28), the British North American Province of Georgia is created (Aug 6), Denmark establishes an office to oversee its colonial affairs of the Danish West Indies, later to become the U.S. Virgin Islands (Nov 28), the Swedish royal family moves in the new Stockholm Palace (Dec 7) - and all these fine people were born:
1754-0108 Simon Louko* farmer/politician - Ylistaro, Sweden-Finland (1824/70)
1754-0115 Richard Martin* politician/campaigner against cruelty to animals - Dangan, County Galway, Ireland (1834/79)
1754-0121 Sofia Lovisa Ramsay* noblewoman/estate owner - Porvoo, Sweden-Finland (1816/62)
1754-0129 Moses Cleaveland* lawyer/politician/founder of Cleveland, Ohio - Canterbury, Connecticut Colony (1806/52)
1754-0209 Gilbert Imlay* businessman/author/diplomat - Upper Freehold, NJ USA (1828)
1754-0217 Nicolas Baudin* explorer/ cartographer/naturalist - Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Kingdom of France (1803/49)
1754-0304 Benjamin Waterhouse* physician/smallpox vaccine pioneer/co-founder of Harvard Medical School - Newport, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1846/92)
1754-0414 Hans Henrik Gripenberg* major general - Karhiniemi, Sweden-Finland (1813/59)
1754-0421 Lars Henrik Keckman* merchant/shipbuilder - Ylikiiminki, Sweden-Finland (1833/79)
1754-0523 William Drennan* Irish physician/poet/ political activist - Belfast, Britain (1820/65)
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1754-0607 Margaretha Mattsdotter** mother of Brita Johansdotter Smeds - Karby, Nykarleby, Sweden-Finland (1789/34)
1754-0618 Anna Maria Lenngren* writer/poet - Uppsala, Sweden (1817/62)
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1754-0711 Thomas Bowdler* physician/expurgating publisher - Bath, Somerset, England (1825/70)
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1754-0729 Jaakko Jaakonpoika Yli-Renko** (b Renko) father of Matti Jaakonpoika Luoma - Rengo, Röyskölä, Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1813/58)
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1754-0821 William Murdoch* engineer/ inventor - Cumnock, East Ayshire, Scotland (1839/85)
1754-0821 Banastre Tarleton* general/ politician/took part in the American Revolution - Liverpool, Lancashire, England (1833/78)
1754-0822 Johan Eriksson Långholm** father of Brita Johansdotter Smeds - Purmå, Pedersöre, Sweden-Finland (unknown)
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1754-0909 William Bligh* officer of the Royal Navy/colonial administrator/ the Mutiny on the Bounty occurred during his command - Plymouth, Devon, England (1817/63)
1754-0926 Joseph Proust* chemist - Angers, France (1826/71)
1754-1009 Jean-Baptiste Regnault* painter - Paris, France (1829/75)
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1754-1119 Pedro Romero* toreador/head of a bullfighting school - Ronda, Spain (1839/84)
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1754-1130 Margeta Pehrsdotter Perthållar** (b Pass) mother of Maria Hanssdotter Marcken, Långholm - Purmo, Sweden-Finland (unknown)
1754-1209 Étienne Ozi* bassoonist/composer - Nîmes, France (1813/58)
1754-1215 Usman dan Fodio* Fulani scholar/military leader/promoter of Sunni Islam - Gobir, Hausa Kingdoms (toda’ys Nigeria) (1817/62)
1754-1224 George Crabbe* poet/surgeon/clergyman - Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England (1832/77)
1754-1225 Carl Magnus Gripenberg* officer/commander of the Svartholma Fortress during the Finnish War/surrendering to the Russians - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1818/63)
Updated 11.4.2023-4
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PS. A personal note: I became a grandmother today, September 28th, as my daughter-in-law gave birth to a healthy boy. I publish here almost daily birth data of people long since gone, but today I celebrate the birth of one of my own. Here’s to all of us living through the ages - loving, caring, sharing, delivering, contributing, building, and dreaming on! All lives matter.