Esek Hopkins

Esek Hopkins was an American naval officer, merchant captain, and privateer. Achieving the rank of Commodore, Hopkins was the only Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War. The Continental Congress commissioned him as Commander-in-Chief of the Navy in December 1775.

26 April 1718

Born on the same birth day (26 April): Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick • Carlos Bianchi • Daesung • Douglas Sirk • Edmund C. Tarbell • Eyvind Earle • Frederick Law Olmsted • Giorgio Moroder • Granny Hamner • Harry Gallatin • Jean Vigo • John Corabi • John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute • Joseph Ward • Ken Wallis • Ms. Dynamite • Nevin Spence • Owen Willans Richardson • Shirley Cawley • Susannah Harker • Vladimir Boltyansky • Yuliya Zaripova • Ğabdulla Tuqay

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