page_title: 1737
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1737 / Births
caption_attribution_description: English: portrait of Thomas Paine by Laurent Dabos for the purpose of engraving.
context_page_description: 1737 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1737th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 737th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1737, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 4 – Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, French chemist, politician (d. 1816)
  January 23 – John Hancock, American politician and revolutionary (d. 1793)
  January 29 – Thomas Paine, British-born American patriot and pamphleteer (d. 1809)
  March 23 – Arthur St. Clair, American soldier and politician (d. 1818)
  April 27 – Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (d. 1794)
  May 2 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1805)
  June 20 – Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1786)
  August 5 – Johann Friedrich Struensee, Danish royal physician (d. 1772)
  August 14 – Charles Hutton, English mathematician (d. 1823)
  August 29 – John Hunter, second governor of New South Wales (d. 1821)
  September 9 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
  September 14 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1806)
  September 15 – Miklós Küzmics, Hungarian Slovenes writer, Catholic priest (d. 1804)
  September 19 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, only Roman Catholic signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1832)
  December 26 – Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (d. 1815)
  date unknown –
  Frances Abington, English actress (d. 1815)
  Gelelemend, Indiginous American (Lenape) leader (d. 1811)
caption: Thomas Paine
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