Hugh Blair

Hugh Blair FRSE was a Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician, considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse.

7 April 1718

Born on the same birth day (7 April): Aaron Gray (rugby league) • Almada Negreiros • Andrew Hampsten • Brigitte van der Burg • Charles Fourier • Francesco Selmi • Frits Peutz • Gustav Landauer • Henry Kuttner • Hitoe Arakaki • Hodding Carter III • James Garner • John Cooper (musician) • Karin Dreijer • Kurt von Schleicher • Vanessa Olivarez • Walter Camp • Walter Winchell

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