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): Bruce Cabot • Daniel Varoujan • Georg Michael Telemann • Henry de Montherlant • John Eliot Gardiner • Matthias Kuhle • Mother Angelica • N. Chandrababu Naidu • Napoleon III • Paul Poiret • Richard Hillary • Veronica Cartwright

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