272 Year Old Celebrities
1. Henry Latimer (1752)
Politician
Member of the Federalist Party who served as a U.S. Representative from Delaware, a U.S. Senator from Delaware, and in the Delaware General Assembly. He also represented his state at...
2. Jemima Wilkinson (1752)
American Clergy
Quaker who led the Society of Universal Friends sect, who believed strongly in sexual abstinence and the idea of gender neutrality. Her followers believed that they were neither male nor...
3. Jacob Broom (1752)
Politician
Member of the Delaware General Assembly and one of the signers of the United States Constitution.
4. Philip Freneau (1752)
American Poet Nationalist Polemi
Poet and author whose acquaintance with James Madison secured his position as editor of The National Gazette. His influential poems include "The House of Night" and "The Wild Honey Suckle."
5. George Rogers Clark (1752)
War Hero
Highest ranking military officer on the northwestern front during the Revolutionary War and the leader of the Kentucky militia that captured Kaskaskia and Vincennes.
6. Muzio Clementi (1752)
Italian Composer
Influenced Ignaz Moscheles, John Field, and Johann Baptist Cramer. Only Joseph Haydn was thought to be more talented in his day.
7. Frances Burney (1752)
British Writer
An English author recognized for her lengthy historical novels and memoirs, she also contributed to the fields of drama and poetry. Her best-known works include Evelina (1778), Camilla (1796), and...
8. Thomas Chatterton (1752)
English Poet Forger
Eighteenth-century poet and literary forger who committed suicide by ingesting arsenic. His most famous poem, "O synge untoe mie roundelaie," was set to music as a madrigal.
9. Betsy Ross (1752)
Entrepreneur
Seamstress who is credited with sewing the first American flag. A bridge that connects Pennsylvania and New Jersey is named the Betsy Ross Bridge in her honor.
10. Nathan Dane (1752)
American Politician
Nathan Dane was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the Continental Congress from 1785 through 1788. Dane helped formulate the Northwest Ordinance while in Congress and introduced...
11. Robert Shapland Carew (1752)
Politician
12. Giovanni Fabbroni (1752)
Italian Scientist
Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni was an Italian naturalist economist agronomist and chemist. In 1775 he collaborated with Felice Fontana in setting up the natural history museum in Florence. From 1777...
13. Francis Fane of Spettisbury (1752)
Member Of The Parliament
s Fane of Spettisbury near Blandford Dorset was a British Member of Parliament.
14. Alexander Kurakin (1752)
Russian Diplomat
Prince Alexander Borisovich Kurakin sometimes spelled Kourakine was a Russian statesman and diplomat a member of the State Council who was ranked Actual Privy Counsellor 1st Class. Born in Moscow...
15. Joseph Delaunay (1752)
unknow
Joseph Delaunay was a French deputy. He was national commissar at the Tribunal of Angers and in 1791 he was elected as a deputy to the Legislative Assembly by the...
16. Frederick Cornewall (1752)
unknow
17. François Isaac de Rivaz (1752)
Swiss Inventor And Politician
çois Isaac de Rivaz was an inventor and a politician. He invented a hydrogen powered internal combustion engine with electric ignition and described it in a French patent published in...
18. Claude François Bruno Siblot (1752)
French Physician
Claude François Bruno Siblot was a French physician.
19. John Manners-Sutton (1752)
unknow
20. George Cabot (1752)
American Politician
George Cabot was an American merchant seaman and politician from Boston Massachusetts. He represented Massachusetts in the U. S. Senate and as the Presiding Officer of the Hartford Convention.
21. Yongxing (1752)
unknow
22. Colin Campbell (probate judge) (1752)
Canadian Politician
Colin Campbell was a Scottish-born lawyer probate judge official and political officer in Nova Scotia. He represented the town of Shelburne in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1793...
23. John Willett Payne (1752)
British Royal Navy Admiral
John Willett Payne was an officer of the Royal Navy who also served as a close friend advisor and courtier to Prince George before and during his first regency. Payne...
24. Lord George Gordon (1752)
unknow
Lord George Gordon was a British politician best known for lending his name to the Gordon Riots of 1780. A colourful personality he was born into the Scottish nobility and...
25. William Stephens (judge) (1752)
United States Federal Judge
Stephens was a United States federal judge. Born in Bewlie Georgia Stephens was a Second Lieutenant in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War later becoming a Colonel of...
26. Louis Legendre (1752)
unknow
Louis Legendre was a French politician of the Revolution period.
27. Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait (1752)
unknow
Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait was a French engineer hydrographer and politician and Minister of the Navy.
28. Ignace-Michel-Louis-Antoine d'Irumberry de Salaberry (1752)
Canadian Politician
Ignace-Michel-Louis-Antoine d'Irumberry de Salaberry was the son of Michel de Sallaberry and he was the first member of the family to develop permanent roots in Canada. He had stayed on...
29. Peter Ochs (1752)
Swiss Politician
Peter Ochs was a Swiss politician who is best known for drawing up the first constitution of the short-lived Helvetic Republic.
30. François Viger (1752)
Canadian Politician
çois Viger was a farmer merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Kent in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1800 to 1808. He was born in...
31. Otto Ernst Gelder Limburg-Stirum (1752)
unknow
32. Christian Graf von Haugwitz (1752)
unknow
Christian August Heinrich Kurt Graf von Haugwitz was a German statesman best known for serving as Foreign Minister of Prussia during the Napoleonic Wars.
33. François Adriaan van der Kemp (1752)
Dutch Politician
çois Adriaan van der Kemp or Francis Adrian Vanderkemp was one of the Dutch radical leaders of the Patriots a minister and publicist who gave the Patriot movement a Christian...
34. Charles-Jean-Marie Alquier (1752)
unknow
Charles-Jean-Marie Alquier was a French diplomat. He served as French minister in several European capitals. In 1810-1811 he served as minister in Stockholm and in 1811-1814 in Copenhagen.
35. Thomas Lister, 1st Baron Ribblesdale (1752)
unknow
36. Charles-Louis Antiboul (1752)
French Girondist Politician
Charles-Louis Antiboul was a French Girondist politician. He was a member of the National Convention from 1792 to 1793. On 7 September 1793 he was ordered to be arrested. On...
37. Joseph Hiester (1752)
American Politician
Joseph Hiester was the fifth Governor of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1823. He was a member of the Hiester family political dynasty.
38. Alexander Tormasov (1752)
Russian General
Count Alexander Petrovich Tormasov was a Russian cavalry general prominent during the Napoleonic Wars.
39. Philippe Louis De Noailles (1752)
unknow
40. Q61928214 (1752)
unknow
41. Peter Swart (1752)
American Politician
Peter Swart was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Schoharie he attended the common schools studied law was admitted to the bar in New York and commenced...
42. Gouverneur Morris I (1752)
unknow
43. Henri-Cardin-Jean-Baptiste D'Aguesseau (1752)
unknow
44. François Gabriel De Solages (1752)
unknow
45. Victurnien-Jean-Baptiste de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1752)
French General
Victurnien Jean-Baptiste Marie de Rochechouart prince of Tonnay-Charente then 9th duke of Mortemart was a French general and politician. He came from the Mortemart branch of the house of Rochechouart...
46. Michel Pierre Luminais (1752)
unknow
47. William Bingham (1752)
Writer
48. Jacques Roux (1752)
Actor
49. Jean Jacques Philippe Marie Duvidal Marquis De Montferrier (1752)
unknow
50. Antoine Joseph Gorsas (1752)
unknow
Antoine Joseph Gorsas French publicist and politician was born at Limoges the son of a shoemaker. He established himself as a private tutor in Paris and presently set up a...