* 1730 – Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher ( d. 1788 )

* 1788 – Adoniram Judson, American missionary ( d. 1850 )

Augustin-Jean Fresnel ( ; ; 1788 – 1827 )

* 1788 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist ( d. 1853 )

* 1741 – Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French navy officer and explorer ( d. 1788 )

In 1788 Jean Jacques Barthelemy ( 1716 – 95 ), a highly esteemed classical scholar and Jesuit, published The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, about a young Scythian descended from Anacharsis.

* 1788 – Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet ( d. 1862 )

* 1788 – Wilhelmine Reichard, German balloonist ( d. 1848 )

* 1714 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader ( d. 1788 )

* 1788 – David G. Burnet, American politician, president of the Republic of Texas ( d. 1870 )

* 1730 – Antonín Kammel, Czech composer and violinist ( d. 1788 )

* 1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.

* Reuben Cone ( 1788 – 1851 ), an important pioneer and landowner in Atlanta, Georgia

Zalta, Venice ( 1788 – 1795 )

* Infante Carlos of Spain, Count of Molina ( 1788 – 1855 ), first Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain ( as Charles V )

** Charles III ( 1759 – 1788 )

** Charles IV ( 1788 – 1808, 1808 )

The central argument in Principles was that the present is the key to the past – a concept of the Scottish Enlightenment which David Hume had stated as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and James Hutton had described when he wrote in 1788 that " from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen thereafter.

David was the third of six children, two daughters and four sons: James ( 1777 – 1847 ), minister at Craig, Ferryden ; David ; David ; George ( 1784 – 1855 ), minister at Scoonie, Fife ; and Patrick ( 1788 – 1859 ), minister at the abbey church, Paisley.

The Shihab leadership continued until the middle of the 19th century and culminated in the illustrious governorship of Amir Bashir Shihab II ( 1788 – 1840 ) who, after Fakhr-al-Din, was the most powerful feudal lord Lebanon produced.

" His father-in-law provided the money he needed for the trip, and David headed for Rome with his wife and three of his students, one of whom, Jean-Germain Drouais ( 1763 – 1788 ), was the Prix de Rome winner of that year.

A notorious instance from the Britannica's early years is the rejection of Newtonian gravity by George Gleig, the chief editor of the 3rd edition ( 1788 – 1797 ), who wrote that gravity was caused by the classical element of fire.

Following his army service, Howard held several electoral political positions: elected to the Continental Congress of 1788 ; Governor of Maryland for three one-year terms, 1789 through 1791 ; State Senator from 1791 through 1795 ; and Presidential Elector in 1792.

* Benedict Swingate Calvert ( c. 1730 – 1788 ), the illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, the third Proprietor Governor of Maryland.

Maryland ratified the Constitution on April 28, 1788 and became the 7th state.

Born in Calvert County, Maryland, on September 21, 1788, the daughter of Walter Smith, a prosperous Maryland planter and veteran officer of the American Revolution, and Ann Mackall-Smith, " Peggy " was raised amid refinement and wealth.

After a controversial campaign, he was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates on October 10, 1788.

In an address to the Maryland House of Delegates in November 1787 and in numerous newspaper articles, Martin attacked the proposed new form of government and continued to fight ratification of the Constitution through 1788.

* Luther Martin, Friday, March 28, 1788, Number III, To the Citizens of Maryland

Pinkney served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1788 to 1792 and then again in 1795, and served as a U. S. Congressman from the third district of Maryland in 1791 and from the fifth district from 1815 until 1816.

In 1788 Chase was a delegate to the Maryland convention called to ratify the United States Constitution.

He served as a delegate to the Confederation Congress from 1787 to 1788, and the third district of Maryland in the U. S. Congress from 1789 to 1791.

When Maryland convened its convention to ratify the United States Constitution in 1788, Gale was a member.

Maryland was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution, on April 28, 1788.

He was a member of the Maryland Convention that ratified the United States Constitution on April 28, 1788.

Robert Goldsborough ( December 3, 1733 – December 22, 1788 ) was an American lawyer and statesman from Maryland.

* John Lee ( Maryland politician ) ( 1788 – 1871 ), Maryland representative in the 18th United States Congress

Potts also served as a member of the Continental Congress in 1781, and as member of the Maryland convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States in 1788.

On December 23, 1788, the Maryland General Assembly passed an act, allowing it to cede land for the federal district.

In 1777 Rogers was a member of the executive council on the organization of the state government and was elected as a United States Presidential elector from Maryland in 1788.

When Maryland held a convention to consider the U. S. Constitution, Plater attended and was the president of the convention when they voted for ratification on April 28, 1788.