Birth year 1740 celebrities
Birth year 1740
Mary Willing Byrd (September 10, 1740 – March 1814) was the second wife of Colonel William Byrd III, a Colonial American military officer at the time of the American Revolution and son of the founder of Richmond, Virginia. Her father, Charles Willi
John Cartwright (17 September 1740 – 23 September 1824) was an English naval officer, Nottinghamshire militia major and prominent campaigner for parliamentary reform. He subsequently became known as the Father of Reform. His younger brother Edmund
Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury, 6th Baronet (May 1740 – 31 March 1821) was a British politician and the first husband of Lady Sarah Lennox.
José Basílio da Gama (April 10, 1740 — July 31, 1795) was a Portuguese poet born in current Brazil, and member of the Society of Jesus, famous for the epic poem O Uraguai. He wrote under pen name Termindo Sipílio.
Nicola Chetta, (Arbërisht: Nikollë Keta; 1740? – 1803) was an Arbëresh writer and priest. He was born in Contessa Entellina. He was educated at the Greek Orthodox seminary in Palermo. In 1777, Keta himself became rector of the seminary himself.
Sophie Arnould (13 February 1740, Paris – 18 October 1802, Paris) was a French operatic soprano.
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) was a French aristocrat, revolu