Anniversarial — 2017
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Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2017:
Births
- Egerton, Lady Marianne Margaret [née Compton] (born 1817–died 1888), English aristocrat, patron, needleworker, author
Deaths
- Aubry, Charles Louis (born 1746–died 1817), French bookseller, inventor, civil servant, surveyor
- Austen, Jane (born 1775–died 1817), English author, novelist
- Barnard, Joseph (born 1748–died 1817), American [unknown occupation]
- Barruel, Antoine Joseph de, comte de Barruel-Beauvert (born 1756–died 1817), French royalist activist
- Barton, William (born 1754–died 1817), American lawyer, scholar, heraldist, designer
- Bidermann, Jacques Antoine (born 1751–died 1817), French businessman, civil servant
- Bourn, Silvanus (born c. 1761–died 1817), American merchant, consular official
- Braithwaite, Daniel (born c. 1731–died 1817), English civil servant, patron, man of letters
- Bruyard, Charles Jean Baptiste (born 1753–died 1817), French civil servant
- Burney, Reverend Doctor Charles [junior] (born 1757–died 1817), English schoolteacher, bibliophile, collector, academician
- Cameron, Ronald (died 1817), Canadian fur-trader, tradesman
- Cary, Wilson Miles (born c. 1734–died 1817), American civil servant, politician, naval officer
- Chaudon, Louis Mayeul (born 1737–died 1817), French churchman, monk, Benedictine, religious controversialist
- Collins, Isaac (born 1746–died 1817), American printer, publisher, bookseller, merchant
- Dalton, Jane (born c. 1742–died c. 1817), English scientist, botanist, translator
- Dalton, Ruth Hooper (born 1739–died after 1817), American home-maker
- Dalton, Tristram (born 1738–died 1817), American merchant, politician
- Darwin, Mrs Susannah [née Wedgwood] (born 1765–died 1817), English home-maker
- Deluc, Jean André (born 1727–died 1817), Swiss geologist, meteorologist, academician
- Douglas, Lady Frances [née Scott] (born 1750–died 1817), Scottish aristocrat
- Dupont, Pierre Gaëton (born c. 1759–died 1817), French translator
- Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel (born 1739–died 1817), French author, philanthropist, economist
- Edgeworth, Richard Lovell (born 1744–died 1817), Irish educationalist, engineer, academician, author
- Elmer, Jonathan (born 1745–died 1817), American physician, judge, politician
- Forbach, Christian von, graf von Forbach (born 1752–died 1817), German army officer
- Gale, Anna Maria Hollyday (born 1756–died 1817), American home-maker
- Gilman, Nathaniel (born 1759–died 1817), American civil servant
- Guglielmini, Gianbattista (born 1763–died 1817), Italian physicist
- Harlet, Nicolas (born 1735–died 1817), French schoolteacher
- Hazard, Ebenezer (born 1745–died 1817), American publisher, civil servant, postal official
- Henderson of Fordell, John, 5th baronet (born 1752–died 1817), Scottish lawyer, politician, member of Parliament
- Hesilrige, Thomas (born c. 1741–died 1817), English gentleman
- Hichborn, Benjamin (born 1746–died 1817), American [unknown occupation]
- Hopewell, James (died c. 1817), American [unknown occupation]
- Horner, Francis (born 1778–died 1817), Scottish lawyer, politician, member of Parliament, economist
- Hufeland, Gottlieb (born 1760–died 1817), German economist, jurist, author
- Jenks, John (born 1751–died 1817), American [unknown occupation]
- King, Elizabeth (born 1770–died 1817), American home-maker
- Lansing, Jeremiah (born 1754–died 1817), American [unknown occupation]
- LeFanu, Alicia [née Sheridan] (born 1753–died 1817), Irish author, playwright
- McKean, Thomas (born 1734–died 1817), American [unknown occupation]
- McMahon, John (born c. 1754–died 1817), Irish politician, member of Parliament
- Massow, Valentin von (born 1752–died 1817), German aristocrat
- Maury, Cardinal Jean Sifrein (born 1746–died 1817), French churchman, politician
- Meredith, Samuel (born 1741–died 1817), American merchant, politician, civil servant, surveyor
- Milton, John (born c. 1756–died 1817), American [unknown occupation]
- Monro, Doctor Alexander [secundus] (born 1733–died 1817), Scottish anatomist
- Montolieu, Louis de (born 1761–died 1817), French aristocrat
- Moustier, Éléanor François Élie de, comte de Moustier (born 1751–died 1817), French diplomat, army officer
- Nast, Jean Népomucène Hermann (born 1754–died 1817), Austrian porcelain manufacturer
- Noel, John Young (born 1762–died 1817), American lawyer, judge
- Otto, Louis Guillaume (born c. 1753–died 1817), French politician, diplomat
- Paule de Rigaud, Joseph Hyacinthe François de, comte de Vaudreuil (born 1740–died 1817), French aristocrat, courtier, connoisseur, collector, patron, soldier
- Pepoon, Silas (born 1754–died 1817), American [unknown occupation]
- Pickens, Andrew (born 1739–died 1817), American [unknown occupation]
- Pintard, Abigail [née Stockton] (born 1738–died 1817), American home-maker
- Raymond, James Grant (born 1771–died 1817), Scottish actor, theatre manager
- Russel, John (born 1740–died 1817), Scottish churchman
- Sabatier de Castres, père Antoine, abbé de Castres (born 1742–died 1817), French journalist, literary critic, author
- Sancho, Anne [née Osborne] (born 1733–died 1817), Caribbean shopkeeper, bookseller, printer
- Sheridan, Hester Jane [née Ogle] (born 1776–died 1817), English home-maker
- Sheridan, Thomas (born 1775–died 1817), English theatre manager, politician
- Staël, Anne Louise Germaine de, Baroness Staël von Holstein [née Necker] (born 1766–died 1817), French salon hostess, author
- Steele, John (born c. 1755–died 1817), American [unknown occupation]
- Suard, Jean Baptiste Antoine (born 1732–died 1817), French journalist, academician, censor, civil servant, editor, author
- Texada, Augustin Louis Marie, marquis de Ximénès (born 1728–died 1817), French aristocrat, army officer, playwright, poet
- Thomson, William (born 1746–died 1817), Scottish author, journalist, political author, political author
- Titcomb, Jonathan (born 1727–died 1817), American [unknown occupation]
- Tyrwhitt, Robert (born 1735–died 1817), English academic
- Wadsworth, James (born 1730–died 1817), American lawyer, politician, judge, militia officer
- Wells, William Charles (born 1757–died 1817), American physician, academician
- Woodford, Emperor (died c. 1817), English army officer, civil servant, East India Company official
- Yeates, Jasper (born 1745–died 1817), American lawyer, judge, politician