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1741 - Birth of Jozef II arch duke of Austria/Roman Catholic German emperor (1765-90).

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1744 - Birth of David Allan Scottish painter.

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1746 - Birth of Maurus Haberhauer composer.

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1752 - Birth of Josef Reicha composer.

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1756 - Johann Melchior Conradi composer, dies at age 81.

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1759 - 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.

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1764 - Birth of Charles Earl Grey (Whig), British Prime Minister (1830-34).

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1767 - Birth of Heinrich Domnich composer.

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1768 - Birth of Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg Dutch civil servant.

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1770 - Birth of Daniel Lambert England, giant (weighed 739 pounds (334kg) at death).

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