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): Albert Jean Amateau • Bud Cullen • Cornelius Harnett • Daniel Chester French • Emperor Go-Kōmyō • Eszter Tamási • John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles • John Eliot Gardiner • Johnny Tillotson • Julie Powell • Rachel Whiteread

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