Birth year 1675 celebrities

Birth year 1675

William Jones Facts

William Jones, FRS (1675 – 3 July 1749) was a Welsh mathematician, most noted for his proposal for the use of the symbol p (the Greek letter pi) to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. He was a close friend of Sir I

Guillaume Delisle Facts

Guillaume Delisle (28 February 1675 – 25 January 1726) was a French cartographer who lived in Paris.

Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham Facts

Field Marshal Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham PC (24 October 1675 – 14 September 1749) was a British soldier and Whig politician. He was known for his ownership of and modifications to the estate at Stowe and for serving as a political mentor t

Thomas Pengelly Facts

Sir Thomas Pengelly (1675 – 14 April 1730) was a British judge of the 18th century, one of two Members of Parliament for Cockermouth, serving from 1722 to 1727, and Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1726.