Thomas Blackwell (scholar)

Thomas Blackwell the younger was a classical scholar, historian and "one of the major figures in the Scottish Enlightenment." ^{Thomas Blackwell, Scottish historian and scholar (d. 1757)}

4 August 1701

Born on the same birth day (4 August): Adam Afriyie • Christian Goethals • Cleon Jones • Crystal Bowersox • Deputy Prime Minister of Finland • Ernesto Maserati • Henri Cornet • Knut Hamsun • Külüg Khan • Margaret of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg • Maurice Richard • Nick Augusto • Nicolas-Jacques Conté • Robert Hayden • Walter Pater