1711: Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia
1712: Edward Hyde – First Governor of the Colony of North Carolina. A victim of yellow fever.
1713: King Frederick I of Prussia
1714: Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain
1715: King Louis XIV of France, the “Sun King”
Ending a seventy-two year reign.
1716: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Newton’s great antagonist. With a better notation system.
1717: Abraham Darby I, English inventor who developed a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fuelled by coke, not charcoal.
1718:Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian man of letters and jurist
1719: Jean Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer
1720: Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania
1721: Elihu Yale, American merchant, philanthropist, and benefactor of Yale University (which was named in his honor)
1722: Black Bart, the most successful pirate of his time.
1723: Increase Mather, American Puritan minister
1724: Jack Sheppard, notorious English criminal who escaped from prison four times before his execution.
1725: Peter the Great, Russian Tsar.
1726: Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
1727: Janet Horne
She was the last “witch” to be executed in the British Isles. Awful sickening behavior by stupid superstitious people.
1728 – Cotton Mather, New England Puritan minister, witch burner in Salem. Without whom, there would be no Yale University.
1729: William Burnet, Governor of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire
1730: Arabella Churchill
Daughter of the Prime Minister Winston Churchill (but not that Prime Minister Winston Churchill- an ancestor) and mistress of King James II. Two of her acknowledged illegitimate children with him were the ancestors of Princess Diana and through her Prince William and his children.