Daniel Bernoulli
1700 – 1782
Swiss (although born in Holland)

Mathematician. He was a remarkable pioneer in the fields of probability, risk assessment, and human valuation.

Contemporaries
1694–1778Voltaire
1723–1790Adam Smith
1712–1778Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1769–1821Napoleon I
1632–1704John Locke
1724–1804Immanuel Kant
1711–1776David Hume
1713–1784Denis Diderot
1725–1798Giacomo Casanova
1667–1748Johann Bernoulli
1655–1705Jakob Bernoulli
1748–1832Jeremy Bentham