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Great Plague of 1738 kills at least 36,000 people.
The sixth President of the Confederation Congress, Nathaniel Gorham, was born in Massachusetts in1738.
Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii was born in Hawaii in 1738.
The Italian composer Bonaventura Furlanetto was born in Venice in 1738.
Peter Pindar, English satirist, was christened in Dodbrooke, Kingsbridge, Devon in 1738.