Born and died in 1737

English historian and politician renowned for his monumental work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Founder of the Rattanakosin Kingdom and the first King of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, known posthumously as King Phutthayotfa Chulalok the Great and by his regnal name Rama I

American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist whose influential pamphlets <i>Common Sense</i> and <i>The American Crisis</i> shaped the American Revolution