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18th Century People

Guess these famous persons that were born and died in the 18th century!
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Last updated: December 11, 2018
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1758-1794
Prince of Terror during the French Revolution
Maximilien Robespierre
1756-1791
"Magic Flute" composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1723-1790
"The Wealth of Nations" author
Adam Smith
1759-1796
Scotland's national poet
Robert Burns
1712-1778
Philosopher who believed in the "General will"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1706-1790
Lightning rod inventor and US Founding Father
Benjamin Franklin
1755-1793
Empress who allegedly said, "Let them eat cake"
Marie Antoinette
1729-1796
Russian empress
Catherine II
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1712-1786
Prussian king who won the Seven Years' War
Frederick the Great
1725-1798
Womanizing author of "Story of my Life"
Giacomo Casanova
1711-1776
"A Treatise of Human Nature" author
David Hume
1729-1781
"Nathan the Wise" author
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
1701-1744
His temperature scale is widely used
Anders Celsius
1728-1779
'Discovered' Australia
James Cook
1727-1788
"Mr. and Mrs. Andrews" painter
Thomas Gainsborough
1743-1794
"Father of Modern Chemistry"
Antoine Lavoisier
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