Famous Celebrity born in 1740

Charles-François Bailly de Messein (54 years)

Joseph Frobisher (70 years)

Marquis de Sade (74 years)

J. F. Oberlin (86 years)

Johann Georg Jacobi (74 years)

Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (77 years)

Matthias Claudius (75 years)

Józef Klemens Czartoryski (70 years)

Archibald Douglas-Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton (79 years)

James Boswell (55 years)

John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe (285 years)

Ivan VI of Russia (24 years)

Carl Michael Bellman (55 years)

Elisabeth Olin (88 years)

William Paca (59 years)

Stephen Heard (75 years)

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