1737

events

6. February: Premiere of the Tragikomödie Alessandro in Sidone of Giovanni Bononcini at the small yard theatre in Vienna.
12. October: Premiere of the musical drama Lucio Papirio of Ignaz wood farmer.

11. October: An earthquake in the area Calcutta (India) demands approx. 300.000 dead ones.

19. January: Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre, French writer († 1814)
23. January: Wolfgang von Kempelen, Austrian writer and inventor († 1804)
29. January: Thomas Paine, US-American journalist († 1809)
9. March: Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer († 1781)
28. March: Henri de Franquetot, ducde Coigny, French Höfling and general († 1821)
27. April: Edward Gibbon, British historian († 1794)
5. August: Johann Friedrich Struensee, German physician and Minister at the Danish yard († 1772)
9. September: Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and natural scientist († 1798)
14. September: Johann Michael Haydn, Austrian composer († 1806)
19. September: Charles Carroll, signer of the declaration of independence of the USA († 1832)
8. November: Joseph Bruny D' Entrecasteaux, French sailor and discoverer († 1793)

12. February: Benjamin Schmolck, church song poet (* 1672)
12. March: Karl Alexander, duke of Württemberg (* 1684)
27. March: Awake seaweed VI., Georgian king and scientist (* 1675)
1. May: Jean Alphonse Turrettini, reformed theologian (* 1671)
10. May: Nakamikado, 114. Emperor of Japan (* 1702)
2. September: Fabian count von Wrangel, imperial habsburgischer field marshal (* 1651)
20. October: Caspar Neumann, German chemist and pharmacist (* 1683)
5. November: Juan Guillermo Riperdá, political adventurer and Spanish Minister (* 1680)
18. December: Antonio Stradivari,Italian master of building of playing the violin (* around 1644)