266 Year Old Celebrities
1. Marie-anne Pierrette Paulze (1758)
Chemist
Marie-anne Pierrette Paulze is a famous Chemist, who was born on January 20, 1758 in France. French chemist who was known as a work contributer and laboratory assistant to her...
2. Maximilien De Robespierre (1758)
Politician
Maximilien De Robespierre is a famous Politician, who was born on May 6, 1758 in France. French left-wing lawyer and member of the Jacobin Club and Committee of Public Safety....
3. Hannah Webster Foster (1758)
Novelist
An American author of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, she is most remembered for her first novel, The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton, which she published...
4. Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1758)
Emperor Of Haiti
Haitian leader who spearheaded the Haitian Revolution and, in 1801, became the first ruler of an Independent Haiti. He proclaimed himself Emperor and ruled from 1804 to 1806.
5. Peggy Schuyler (1758)
Family Member
Third daughter of Continental Army General Philip Schuyler who became the sister-in-law of John Barker Church and Alexander Hamilton.
6. Kamehameha I (1758)
King
Remembered for conquering and unifying the Hawaiian islands and establishing the Kingdom of Hawaii in the early Nineteenth Century, this historical figure authored a human rights law known as the...
7. Noah Webster (1758)
American Politician
Writer responsible for the first American Dictionary of the English Language. The popular dictionary, first published in 1828, was later renamed the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
8. James Monroe (1758)
Fifth President Of The United St
The fifth President of the United States and the final Founding Father to be elected to the office. He died on July 4th, making him the third president to die...
9. Horatio Nelson (1758)
War Hero
Royal Navy officer who served during the Napoleonic Wars and was killed during his Battle of Trafalgar victory.
10. Samuel Greg (1758)
Entrepreneur
This late 18th and early 19th-century English entrepreneur and owner of the Quarry Bank Mill textile company was one of the first factory owners to institute the industrial use of...
11. Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff (1758)
Dutch Physicist
Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Baron Krayenhoff was a physicist artist general hydraulic engineer cartographer and - against his will and for only a short time - Dutch Minister of War.
12. George Walpole (British Army officer) (1758)
British Soldier And Politician
Major-General The Honourable George Walpole was a British soldier and politician. He gained distinction after suppressing the Maroon insurrection in Jamaica in 1795. After entering Parliament in 1797 he served...
13. Scrope Bernard-Morland (1758)
British Politician
Sir Scrope Bernard-Morland 4th Baronet was a British politician and baronet.
14. William Meeke (1758)
British Politician
Meeke was a Member of Parliament for Callan in the Irish Parliament from 1790 to 1797 and for Penryn Cornwall in the House of Commons of Great Britain and then...
15. Joseph-François-Louis-Charles de Damas (1758)
French General
Duke Joseph François Louis Charles de Damas was a French general. As a colonel took part in the American Revolution from 1780 to 1781.
16. Georges Joseph Dufour (1758)
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Georges Joseph Dufour was a French Republican and military commander during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
17. Charles Ganilh (1758)
French Economist And Politician
Charles Ganilh was a French economist and politician. He was born at Allanche in Cantal. He was educated for a profession in law and practised as avocat. During the troubled...
18. William Polk (colonel) (1758)
American Politician
Colonel William Polk was a North Carolina banker educational administrator political leader renowned Continental officer in the War for American Independence and survivor of the 1777/1778 encampment at Valley Forge.
19. John Vining (1758)
American Politician
John Middleton Jack Vining was an American lawyer and politician from Dover in Kent County Delaware. He was a Continental Congressman from Delaware and a member of the Federalist Party...
20. Richard Dobbs Spaight (1758)
American Politician
Richard Dobbs Spaight was the eighth Governor of the American State of North Carolina from 1792 to 1795.
21. William Russell (Kentucky) (1758)
American Politician
Colonel William Russell III was a soldier pioneer and politician from Virginia and Kentucky. He was born in Culpeper County Virginia to William Russell and Tabitha Russell. William Russell Sr....
22. William Wilberforce Bird (MP) (1758)
British Politician
berforce Bird financier merchant civil servant and author was the Member of Parliament for Coventry from 1796 to 1802. The son of John Bird and Judith Wilberforce he was born...
23. Taylor Sherman (1758)
Connecticut Politician
Taylor Sherman was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk in the sessions of May 1794 May 1795 and May 1796. Sherman was born in Woodbury Connecticut...
24. Fisher Ames (1758)
American Politician
sher Ames was a Representative in the United States Congress from the 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts.
25. Christian Friedrich von Otto (1758)
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Christian Friedrich von Otto was a Württemberger official and politician.
26. Charles Ambroise de Caffarelli du Falga (1758)
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Charles Ambroise de Caffarelli du Falga baron Caffarelli was canon of Toul before the French Revolution and one of the Caffarelli brothers. He became prefect under the First French Empire...
27. Mathias Rosenblad (1758)
Swedish Politician
Count Mathias Rosenblad was a Swedish politician and government official. In 1797 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
28. Abraham B. Venable (1758)
American Politician
Abraham Bedford Venable was a representative and senator from Virginia. He was the uncle of congressman Abraham Watkins Venable.
29. Antoine Duchesne De Gillevoisin (1758)
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30. Mianxun (1758)
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31. Alexander Cochrane (1758)
Senior Royal Navy Commander
Sir Alexander Inglis Cochrane GCB RN was a senior Royal Navy commander during the Napoleonic Wars and achieved the rank of Admiral. He was knighted for his service
32. Graf Fedor Andreevich Tolstoĭ (1758)
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33. Richard Burke, Jr. (1758)
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Richard Burke was a barrister and Member of Parliament in England. He was born in Battersea the son of Edmund Burke and Jane Mary Nugent. He was educated at Westminster...
34. Caleb P. Bennett (1758)
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Caleb Prew Bennett was an American soldier and politician from Wilmington in New Castle County Delaware. He was a veteran of the American Revolution and the War of 1812 and...
35. Philip Gidley King (1758)
British Colonial Governor
Captain Philip Gidley King RN was the third Governor of New South Wales and did much to civilise the young colony in the face of great obstacles. When the First...
36. Jens Schou Fabricius (1758)
Norwegian Admiral
The son of district judge Laurs Sørensen Fabricius Jens Schou Fabricius was the Norwegian appointed Minister of the Navy 1817–1818. In his naval career he served first the Danish Crown...
37. Lord Robert Manners (1758)
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38. Pierre-Amable de Bonne (1758)
Canadian Politician
Pierre-Amable de Bonne was a seigneur lawyer judge and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in Montreal in 1758 the son of Louis de Bonne de Missègle and...
39. Jean François Cornu de La Poype (1758)
French General
Jean François Cornu de La Poype was a French military leader. He was born in Lyon to a noble military family.
40. Willem Jacob Huyssen Van Kattendijke (1758)
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41. François Louis Bourdon (1758)
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çois Louis Bourdon also known as Bourdon de l'Oise was a French politician of the Revolutionary period and procureur at the parlement of Paris.
42. Feliks Łubieński (1758)
Polish Jurist
s Łubieński was a Polish jurist.
43. Leopold Karel, Count Of Limburg Stirum (1758)
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44. Benjamin Mooers (1758)
American Politician
General Benjamin Mooers was born in Haverhill Massachusetts. He was a lieutenant in the New York militia and the 2nd Canadian Regiment during the American Revolutionary War. In 1783 he...
45. Henri Jacques Goüin-Moisant (1758)
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46. Abel Spencer (1758)
American Politician
Abel Spencer was a Vermont lawyer and politician who served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives twice and was expelled from the House for theft.
47. André Masséna (1758)
Marshal Of France
André Masséna 1st Duc de Rivoli 1st Prince d'Essling was a French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Masséna was one of the original eighteen Marshals of the...
48. John Inglett-Fortescue (1758)
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49. Matthias Richards (1758)
American Politician
Matthias Richards was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
50. Sir Francis Ford, 1st Baronet (1758)
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