David Brainerd

David Brainerd was an American Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Native Americans among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. Missionaries such as William Carey and John Eliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) cite Brainerd as inspiration.

20 April 1718

Born on the same birth day (20 April): Antony Jay • Carl Greenidge • Carol I of Romania • Ernie Stautner • Fatin Rüştü Zorlu • George Takei • Harold Lloyd • Joseph Wolpe • Julia Morris • Katarína Kolníková • Léa Fazer • Mother Angelica • Myriam Bru • N. Chandrababu Naidu • Nina Foch • Pauli Ellefsen • Rita Dionne-Marsolais • Shemar Moore • Toller Cranston • Willi Hennig • Wop May

Born in the same month (April 1718): Benjamin Kennicott • Esek Hopkins • Hugh Blair • Nathaniel Hone the Elder • Thomas Lewis (Virginia politician)