* May 26 – Nathaniel Folsom, American Continental Congressman for New Hampshire and Revolutionary War major general ( b. 1726 )

Among the earliest tithingmen in the village were Jonathan Robinson ( 1678 ), Abraham and Jeremiah Folsom ( 1720 ), Andrew Glidden ( 1721 ), Trueworthy Leavitt ( 1725 ), Samuel Edgerly ( 1728 ), Nathaniel Gilman ( 1729 ) and Nathaniel Webster ( 1729 ).

Gilman's father, along with Nathaniel Folsom and Enoch Poor, emerged as a leader of the Patriot cause in Exeter.

Nathaniel Folsom ( September 28, 1726, Exeter, New Hampshire – May 26, 1790, Exeter, New Hampshire ) was an American merchant and statesman.

* Gen. Nathaniel Folsom of Exeter, A Genealogy of the Folsom Family: John Folsom and His Descendants, 1615-1882, Jacob Chapman, The Republican Press Association, Concord, N. H., 1882

Gilman was married to Deborah ( Folsom ) Gilman, the daughter of Major General Nathaniel Folsom of Exeter.

* Nathaniel Folsom ( Choctaw chief ): 1842 – 1846

* Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Baronet ( 1726 – 1804 ) ( created Baron Scarsdale in 1761 )

* Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale ( 1726 – 1804 )

* 1997 – Nathaniel Gleed, English actor

* 1762 – 1764 Nathaniel Bliss

* 1718 – Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish painter ( d. 1784 )

The couple had six children: James ( 1763 – 94 ), Nathaniel ( 1764 – 81 ), Elizabeth ( 1767 – 71 ), Joseph ( 1768 – 68 ), George ( 1772 – 72 ) and Hugh ( 1776 – 93 ).

* 1647 – Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist ( d. 1676 )

* 1816 – Nathaniel Prentice Banks, American politician ( d. 1894 )

* 1859 – Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman, Viceroy of India ( d. 1925 )

* 1804 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer ( d. 1864 )

* 1975 – Nathaniel Marston, American actor

* 1883 – Nathaniel Cartmell, American athlete ( d. 1967 )

* 1984 – Nathaniel Motte, American musician ( 3OH! 3 )

* 1735 – Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter ( d. 1811 )

* 1850 – The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.

* 1838 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician ( b. 1773 )

Methodism came to the Caribbean in 1760 when the planter, lawyer and Speaker of the Antiguan House of Assembly – Nathaniel Gilbert III (~ 1719 – 1774 ) returned to his sugar estate home in Antigua.

* 1811 – Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist ( d. 1891 )

* 1700 – Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer ( d. 1764 )

* 1820 – Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica ( the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him ).

* Nathaniel Rochester ( 1752 – 1831 ), American Revolutionary War soldier and land speculator, founder of Rochester, New York

The first president ( Henry Dunster ), the first benefactor ( John Harvard ), and the first schoolmaster ( Nathaniel Eaton ) of Harvard were all Cambridge University alumni, as was the then ruling ( and first ) governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop.

The most important of these, Magnalia Christi Americana ( 1702 ), comprises seven distinct books, many of which depict biographical and historical narratives to which later American writers, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, would look in describing the cultural significance of New England for later generations after the American Revolution.

Nevertheless, all the distinctive Christadelphian doctrines, down to interpretations of specific verses, can be found particularly among 16th century Socinian writers ( e. g. the rejection of the doctrines of the trinity, pre-existence of Christ, immortal souls, a literal hell of fire, original sin ) Christian Thomasius ( 1704 ), Arthur Ashley Sykes ( 1737 ), Nathaniel Lardner ( 1742 ), Dr. Richard Mead ( 1755 ), Hugh Farmer ( at least in the account of Christ's temptation ; 1761 ), William Ashdowne ( 1791 ), John Simpson ( 1804 ) and John Epps ( 1842 )

In a version told by Nathaniel Hawthorne in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys ( 1852 ), Midas found that when he touched his daughter, she turned to gold as well.

* Nathaniel Rochester ( computer scientist ) ( 1919 – 2001 ), designed the IBM 701, wrote the first assembler and participated in the founding of the field of artificial intelligence

* Thomas H. Rochester ( 1797 – 1874 ), the 6th son of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester and the 6th mayor of Rochester

On July 24, a committee of five ( John Rutledge ( SC ), Edmund Randolph ( VA ), Nathaniel Gorham ( MA ), Oliver Ellsworth ( CT ), and James Wilson ( PA ) was elected to draft a detailed constitution.

* Nathaniel Bacon of England ( 1585 – 1627 ), painter ( not to be confused with the leader of the same name of Bacon's Rebellion )

* Nathaniel Courthope of England ( 1585 – 1620 ), merchant navy officer

When the Mayflower's story was retold by historians Nathaniel Morton ( in 1669 ) and Cotton Mather ( in 1702 ), both paraphrased Bradford's passage, and used Bradford's word pilgrims.

* James Brainerd Taylor ( no relation to Nathaniel William Taylor ), Reformed, mentored by Asahel Nettleton

From this time his scientific studies dropped off, but he was a profound influence on the American branches of his two fields, teaching decades worth of future prominent scientists, including Alpheus Hyatt, David Starr Jordan, Joel Asaph Allen, Joseph Le Conte, Ernest Ingersoll, William James, Nathaniel Shaler, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, Alpheus Packard, and his son Alexander Agassiz, among others.

This year witnessed the addition of African American players by several teams, including Chuck Cooper with the Celtics, Nathaniel " Sweetwater " Clifton with the Knicks, and Earl Lloyd with the Washington Capitols.

* Chapter 17 from the online edition of Nathaniel Bowditch's American Practical Navigator

** Nathaniel Motte, American songwriter, performer, singer, music producer, film composer, instrumentalist, and playwright ( 3OH! 3 )

* May 19 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author ( b. 1804 )

* September 1 – Nathaniel P. Banks, American politician and general ( b. 1816 )

* December 17 – Nathaniel Macon, American politician ( d. 1837 )

* March 27 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator ( d. 1888 )

* July 4 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer ( d. 1864 )

* Nathaniel Meserve, American shipwright ( b. 1704 )

* March 16 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician ( b. 1773 )

* January 30 – Nathaniel P. Banks, American politician and general ( d. 1894 )

* March 26 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician ( d. 1838 )