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Historical Event(s)
– Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
– In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
Who Were Born On ?
– Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
– Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (d. 1758)
– Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765)
– Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (d. 1780)
– Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759)
– Baal Shem Tov, Founder of the Chasiddic movement (d. 1760)
– François Francoeur, French composer and violinist (d. 1787)
– Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (d. 1782)
– Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
– William Warburton, English Bishop of Gloucester (d. 1779)