page_title: 1742
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1742 / Births
context_page_description: 1742 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1742nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 742nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1742, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 8 – Philip Astley, English circus organizer (d. 1814)
  March 9 – Michael Anckarsvärd, Swedish politician (d. 1838)
  March 10 – Sampson Salter Blowers, American lawyer, jurist (d. 1842)
  March 14 – Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, Iranian king (d. 1797)
  March 12 – Aletta Haniel, German business person (d. 1815)
  April 28 – Henry Dundas, British statesman (d. 1811)
  May 6 – Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor, botanist (d. 1809)
  June 25 – Johann Schweighäuser, German classical scholar (d. 1830)
  June 26 – Arthur Middleton, American politician (d. 1787)
  June 28 – William Hooper, American statesman (d. 1790)
  July 21 – John Cleves Symmes, American statesman (d. 1814)
  July 27 – Nathanael Greene, American general (d. 1786)
  August 14 – Pope Pius VII (b. Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti), Italian Benedictine (d. 1823)
  September 14 – James Wilson, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1798)
  October 3 – Anders Jahan Retzius, Swedish chemist, botanist (d. 1821)
  October 6 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (d. 1785)
  November 5 – Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821)
  December 9 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (d. 1785)
  December 16 – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (d. 1819)
  December 26 (bapt.) – George Chalmers, Scottish antiquarian (d. 1825)
  date unknown – Rafaela Herrera, Nicaraguan heroine  (d. 1805)
  date unknown – Francis Nash, American military officer (d. 1777)
  date unknown – Hendrik Frans de Cort, Flemish painter (d. 1810)
caption: James Wilson
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