Alla källor som föddes år 1740

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November 5th 1735: James Beattie (1735-1803)
January 19th 1736: James Watt (1736-)
May 29th 1736: Patrick Henry (1736-1799) - US pol
January 12th 1737: John Hancock (1737-1793) - US founding father
January 29th 1737: Thomas Paine (1737-1809) - and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution.
May 8th 1737: Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) - English historian
January 10th 1738: Ethan Allen (1738-)
June 22nd 1738: Jacques Delille (1738-1813)

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1740

Matthias Claudius (1740-1815)
June 2nd: Marquis De Sade (1740-1814) - whose perverse sexual preferences and erotic writings gave rise to the term sadism.
October 29th: James Boswell (1740-1795) - English biographer

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April 1741: Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort (1741-1794) - French writer
October 18th 1741: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803)
November 15th 1741: Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
July 1st 1742: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) - German writer
August 26th 1743: Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) - regarded as the father of modern chemistry.
September 17th 1743: Marquis de Condorcet (1743-)
August 25th 1744: Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803)
November 22nd 1744: Abigail Adams (1744-1818) - (1797-1801), wife of John Adams, 2nd US president, and mother of John Quincy Adams, 6th US president.
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