260 Year Old Celebrities

1. Ulrika Widström (1764)

Swedish Poet

Swedish translator and poet who is best known for a 1799 work entitled Erotiska sanger (Erotic Songs).

2. Charles Grey (1764)

World Leader

British world leader who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1830 until 1834. He represented the Whig Party and was one...

3. Alexander Mackenzie (1764)

Explorer

Explorer who became the first European explorer to cross North America from East to West above the Mexico border.

4. Jose Artigas (1764)

War Hero

War hero who was often labeled the Father of Uruguayan nationhood. He was involved in the Oriental Revolution and the Luso Brazilian invasion.

5. Ann Radcliffe (1764)

Novelist

An English novelist known for her works of Gothic romance, she penned the classic work, The Mysteries of Udolpho, which tells the story of a young woman imprisoned by a...

6. Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764)

Sculptor

Johann Gottfried Schadow is a famous Sculptor, who was born on May 20, 1764 in Germany. German sculptor who made marble busts, including The Prinzessinengruppe and Frederica of Prussia. According...

7. Fletcher Christian (1764)

Hms Bounty Moutineer

Leader of the 1789 mutiny on board the HMS Bounty. After taking over the ship, he and his twenty-five co-conspirators traveled first to the island of Tubuai and later to...

8. Richard Edgeworth (1764)

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9. Felipe Bauza (1764)

Spanish Naval Officer

Bauzá y Cañas was a Spanish naval officer hydrographer and cartographer.

10. Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo (1764)

Corsican Politician

Carlo Andrea count Pozzo di Borgo was a Corsican politician who became a Russian diplomat. He was born at Alata near Ajaccio of a noble Corsican family four years before...

11. Christopher Bethell-Codrington (1764)

Cricketer

Christopher Bethell-Codrington was an English amateur cricketer who made five known appearances in first-class cricket matches in 1797.

12. William Cottnam Tonge (1764)

Canadian Politician

Cottnam Tonge was a judge and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Hants County from 1793 to 1799 and from 1806 to 1811 and Newport township from 1799 to...

13. George Byng (1764–1847) (1764)

British Politician

George Byng DL JP of Wrotham Park Hertfordshire was a British Whig politician.

14. Alexander Hutchinson (Vermont) (1764)

American Politician

Alexander Hutchinson was a Vermont politician who served as State Auditor.

15. Christopher Riffe (1764)

American Politician

Christopher Riffe accompanied Col. William Casey to Kentucky in 1784. Riffe lived at Bryan's Station Boonesborough Logan's Station and Carpenter's Station. He bought 800 acres of land from the grandfather...

16. Charles Bretagne Marie de La Trémoille (1764)

French Noble

Charles Bretagne Marie de La Trémoille 8th duc de Thouars was a French soldier and the son of Jean Bretagne Charles de La Trémoille and his wife Marie-Maximilienne princess of...

17. Robert Waithman (1764)

Lord Mayor Of London

Robert Waithman Lord Mayor of London was born at Wrexham. After being employed for some time in a London linen draper's he opened about 1786 a draper's shop of his...

18. Firmin Didot (1764)

French Businessman

Didot was a French printer engraver and type founder. He invented the word stereotype which in printing refers to the metal printing plate created for the actual printing of pages...

19. William Lee Antonie (1764)

British Legislator

Lee Antonie was Member of Parliament for Bedford.

20. William Henry Lambton (1764)

British Politician

Henry Lambton was a British Member of Parliament representing the City of Durham a role in which he was succeeded by his brother. He was the son of John Lambton...

21. Nicolas Dorion (1764)

Canadian Politician

Nicolas Dorion was a merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Devon in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1796 to 1800. He was born in Quebec...

22. Jonathan Leavitt (1764)

American Politician

Jonathan Leavitt was a prominent Greenfield Massachusetts attorney judge state senator and businessman for whom the architect Asher Benjamin designed the Leavitt House now the Leavitt-Hovey House on Main Street...

23. Edward Lascelles (1764)

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24. Charles Edmonstone (1764)

British Politician

Sir Charles Edmonstone 2nd Baronet also 12th of Duntreath was a Scottish politician. Edmonstone was the third son of Sir Archibald Edmonstone 1st Baronet. He was educated at Eton College...

25. Burwell Bassett (1764)

American Politician

Burwell Bassett Jr. was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1787 to 1789 and the Virginia Senate from 1794 to 1805.

26. Martin G. Schuneman (1764)

American Politician

Martin Gerretsen Schuneman was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Catskill he was educated by his father and in 1792 was justice of the peace of Albany...

27. Carel Hendrik Ver Huell (1764)

Dutch Admiral

Carel Hendrik count Ver Huell was a Dutch and later French admiral and statesman. He married Maria Johanna de Bruyn on 22 February 1789 at Hummelo and had three...

28. Mary Hill (1764)

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29. Charles Alten (1764)

Hanoverian And British Soldier

Sir Charles Alten GCB GCH Hanoverian and British soldier son of Baron Alten a member of an old Hanoverian family entered the service of the elector as a page at...

30. Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy (1764)

French Writer

Victor-Joseph Étienne called de Jouy French dramatist who abandoned an early military career for a successful literary one. Victor-Joseph Étienne was born at Versailles. At the age of eighteen he...

31. Charles Philip Yorke (1764)

Lord Of The Admiralty

Charles Philip Yorke PC FRS FSA was a British politician. He notably served as Home Secretary from 1803 to 1804.

32. Lord Charles FitzRoy (1764)

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33. Claude Basire (1764)

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Claude Basire was a French politician of the Revolutionary period.

34. Mathias Sommerhielm (1764)

Norwegian Politician

Mathias Otto Leth Sommerhielm was a Norwegian politician. He served as First Minister in Christiania from 1815 to 1822 a position assigned to the most prominent cabinet minister at the...

35. Amos Marsh (1764)

American Football Player

Amos Marsh Jr. was a professional American football running back in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and the Detroit Lions. He played college football at Oregon...

36. Karl Heinrich Lang (1764)

German Historian And Statesman

Karl Heinrich Ritter von Lang was a German historian and statesman.

37. Amos Marsh (Vermont) (1764)

American Politician

Amos Marsh was a Vermont lawyer and politician who served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives.

38. Sir Henry St John-Mildmay, 3rd Baronet (1764)

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39. William Barry Grove (1764)

American Politician

Barry Grove was a Federalist U. S. Congressman from the state of North Carolina from 1791 to 1803. Grove was born in Fayetteville North Carolina in 1764. After studying law...

40. Jean Joseph Antoine Bosc (1764)

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41. Robert Brent (1764)

American Mayor

Robert Brent was the first mayor of Washington D. C. the federal capital of the United States of America. Brent was born into a prominent Catholic family for which the...

42. Francisco Antonio Pérez (1764)

Chilean Politician

sco Antonio Pérez Salas was a Chilean political figure. He served several times as member of different Government Juntas and participated actively in the war of independence in that country....

43. José Gervasio Artigas (1764)

Hero Of Urugayan Independency

José Gervasio Artigas Arnal is a national hero of Uruguay sometimes called the father of Uruguayan nationhood.

44. Nicolson Calvert (1764)

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45. Joseph Moreau (1764)

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46. William Garthshore (1764)

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Garthshore was an English politician a Member of Parliament from 1795 to 1806.

47. Samuel Henderson (1764)

American Politician

Samuel Henderson was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Samuel Henderson was born and attended school in England. He immigrated to the United States in...

48. Robert Craufurd (1764)

British Army General

Major-General Robert Craufurd was a Scottish soldier. After a military career which took him from India to the Netherlands he was given command of the Light Division in the Napoleonic...

49. Robert Weakley (1764)

American Politician

Robert Weakley was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives from 1809 to 1811.

50. David Daggett (1764)

American Politician

David Daggett was a U. S. senator mayor of New Haven Connecticut Judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors and a founder of the Yale Law School.

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