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16 famous people found
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Claude Joseph ROUGET de LISLE
French Army officer of the Revolutionary Wars known for writing the words and music of La Marseillaise that become the French national anthem
1760 - 1836 -
Augustin THIERRY
French historian
1795 - 1856 -
Giuseppe BAVASTRO
Italian privateer
1760 - 1833 -
François BONAMY
French botanist and physician
1710 - 1786 -
Richard Bland
American planter and statesman
1710 - 1776 -
Augustin FRESNEL
French civil engineer and physicist
1788 - 1827 -
George ROSS
Signer of the Continental Association and the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania
1730 - 1779 -
Anne Marguerite HYDE DE NEUVILLE
French watercolourist and painter
1771 - 1849 -
Louis René VILLERME
French doctor
1782 - 1863 -
François Isidore GAGELIN
French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society in Vietnam
1799 - 1833 -
Samuel BOCHART
French Protestant biblical scholar
1599 - 1667 -
Peleg SANFORD
10th Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
1639 - 1701 -
Pierre RIEL DE BEURNONVILLE
French general during the French Revolutionary Wars and later a marshal of France
1752 - 1821 -
Claude Florimond DE MERCY
Imperial field marshal
1666 - 1734 -
Charles DE BONCHAMPS
French politician and leader of the Vendéan insurrection of Royalists against the Republic during the French Revolution
1760 - 1793 -
Anne Robert Jacques TURGOT
French economist and statesman
1727 - 1781