Born and died in 1744

First Lady of the United States, influential advisor to President John Adams, and mother of President John Quincy Adams, known for her prolific and insightful letters

French naturalist, biologist, and soldier, known for pioneering the idea of biological evolution

American Founding Father and politician who signed the Declaration of Independence, championed the Bill of Rights, and whose name is linked to "gerrymandering"

Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician best known for proposing the centigrade temperature scale, which was later named Celsius in his honor, and for founding the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory