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== Births == [[File:Pompeo-batoni-painting-self-portrait.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pompeo Batoni]] born [[25 January]]]] [[File:The Cardinal de Rochechouart (Jean François Joseph de Rochechouart) wearing the Sash of the Order of the Holy Spirit in 1762 by Pompeo Batoni.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jean-François-Joseph de Rochechouart]] born [[27 January]]]] [[File:AugustinDe Mailly.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Augustin-Joseph de Mailly]] born [[5 April]]]] [[File:Johann Adolph Scheibe.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Johann Adolf Scheibe]] born [[5 May]]]] [[File:Johnspencer1708.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Spencer (British politician)|John Spencer]] born [[13 May]]]] [[File:HenryBilsonLegge.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Henry Bilson-Legge]] born [[29 May]]]] [[File:Silvester Gardiner.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Silvester Gardiner]] born [[29 June]]]] [[File:Jean-Rodolphe Perronet.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jean-Rodolphe Perronet]] born [[27 October]]]] [[File:William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham after Richard Brompton.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham]] born [[15 November]]]] === January–March === * [[January 1]] – [[Anton Wilhelm Plaz]], German physician and botanist (d. [[1784]]) * [[January 3]] – [[Johannes Van Rensselaer]], member of the prominent colonial Van Rensselaer family (d. [[1783]]) * [[January 10]] – [[Donat Nonnotte]], French painter who specialized in portraiture (d. [[1785]]) * [[January 14]] – [[Charles Armand René de La Trémoille]], French soldier and president of the States of Brittany (d. [[1741]]) * [[January 15]] – [[Giovanni Salvemini]], Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. [[1791]]) * [[January 17]] – [[Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos]] (d. [[1771]]) * [[January 23]] – [[Luigi Crespi]], Italian painter (d. [[1779]]) * [[January 25]] – [[Pompeo Batoni]], Italian painter (d. [[1787]]) * [[January 26]] – [[William Hayes (composer)|William Hayes]], composer (d. [[1777]]) * [[January 27]] ** [[Robert Marsham]], English naturalist considered to be the founding father of phenology (d. [[1797]]) ** [[Jean-François-Joseph de Rochechouart]], French Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. [[1777]]) * [[January 30]] – [[Georg Dionysius Ehret]], botanist and entomologist known for his botanical illustrations (d. [[1770]]) * [[February 3]] – [[Johann Michael Hartung]], German organ builder and public figure from Dürkheim (d. [[1763]]) * [[February 8]] – [[Václav Jan Kopřiva]], Bohemian composer and organist (d. [[1789]]) * [[February 11]] – [[Egidio Duni]], Italian composer who studied in Naples and worked in Italy (d. [[1775]]) * [[February 15]] ** [[Alexander Hume-Campbell (1708–1760)|Alexander Hume-Campbell]], Scottish lawyer and politician (d. [[1760]]) ** [[Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont]], Scottish politician (d. [[1794]]) * [[February 19]] – [[Scrope Berdmore]], English clergyman (d. [[1770]]) * [[February 23]] – [[Chauncy Townsend]], City of London merchant and a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Great Britain (d. [[1770]]) * [[February 25]] – [[Felix Benda]], Bohemian composer and organist (d. [[1768]]) * [[February 29]] ** [[Louis Charles du Chaffault de Besné]], French naval commander (d. [[1794]]) ** [[Peter Jefferson]], father of US President Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) (d. [[1757]]) * [[March 5]] ** [[Susanna Boylston]], prominent early-American socialite (d. [[1797]]) ** [[Moritz Franz Kasimir von Wobersnow]], Prussian major general of infantry and a general adjutant of Frederick the Great (d. [[1759]]) * [[March 8]] – [[John Campbell (author)|John Campbell]], Scottish author (d. [[1775]]) * [[March 15]] – [[John Hulse]], British Anglican priest (d. [[1790]]) * [[March 17]] – [[Johanna Magdalene of Saxe-Weissenfels]], Duchess consort of Courland (d. [[1760]]) * [[March 22]] – [[Ernst Henrich Berling]], German-Danish book printer and publisher (d. [[1750]]) * [[March 26]] – [[Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere]] (d. [[1774]]) * [[March 31]] – [[Jean Chastel]], farmer and inn-keeper from the province of Gévaudan in France (d. [[1790]]) === April–June === * [[April 3]] ** [[Johann Christian Cuno]], German poet (d. [[1783]]) ** [[Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis]], French lawyer (d. [[1791]]) * [[April 5]] – [[Augustin-Joseph de Mailly]], French general (d. [[1794]]) * [[April 6]] – [[Johann Georg Reutter]], Austrian composer (d. [[1772]]) * [[April 12]] – [[Rose Fuller]], West Indies plantation owner and politician (d. [[1777]]) * [[April 18]] – [[James Cholmondeley]], British Army officer and Member of Parliament between 1731 and 1747 (d. [[1775]]) * [[April 23]] – [[Friedrich von Hagedorn]], German poet (d. [[1754]]) * [[April 25]] – [[John Seccombe]], author (d. [[1792]]) * [[April 28]] – [[Johann Rudolf Engau]], German jurist (d. [[1755]]) * [[May 1]] – [[Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart]] (d. [[1770]]) * [[May 5]] – [[Johann Adolf Scheibe]], German-Danish composer and significant critic and theorist of music (d. [[1776]]) * [[May 8]] – [[Girolamo Colonna di Sciarra]], Italian Catholic Cardinal of the noble Colonna di Sciarra family (d. [[1763]]) * [[May 13]] ** [[Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels]], Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and the Bishop of Münster from 1761 to 1784 (d. [[1784]]) ** [[John Spencer (British politician)|John Spencer]], British nobleman and politician (d. [[1746]]) * [[May 25]] – [[Wriothesley Russell, 3rd Duke of Bedford]], English nobleman and peer (d. [[1732]]) * [[May 29]] – [[Henry Bilson-Legge]], English statesman and three times as Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. [[1764]]) * [[May 30]] – [[Daniel Gralath]], physicist and a mayor of Danzig (d. [[1767]]) * [[June 5]] – [[Roger Townshend (1708–1760)|Roger Townshend]], British soldier and Member of Parliament (d. [[1760]]) * [[June 17]] – [[Annibale degli Abati Olivieri]], Italian archaeologist (d. [[1789]]) * [[June 19]] – [[Johann Gottlieb Janitsch]], German Baroque composer (d. [[1763]]) * [[June 20]] – [[François-Élie Vincent]], French painter of portrait miniatures (d. [[1790]]) * [[June 24]] – [[Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Baronet]], English baronet and politician (d. [[1748]]) * [[June 25]] – [[Nicolas Antoine II Coulon de Villiers]], French military officer in the King George's War (d. [[1750]]) * [[June 29]] – [[Silvester Gardiner]], physician (d. [[1786]]) === July–September === * [[July 5]] – [[Thomas Phillips (priest)|Thomas Phillips]], English Jesuit priest (d. [[1774]]) * [[July 8]] ** [[Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon]], French playwright and writer (d. [[1775]]) ** [[Johann Jakob Zeiller]], Austrian painter (d. [[1783]]) * [[July 10]] – [[Johannes Enschedé (1708–1780)|Johannes Enschedé]], Dutch printer (d. [[1780]]) * [[July 17]] – [[Frederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth]], member of the House of Hohenzollern (d. [[1769]]) * [[July 19]] – [[Philip Francis (translator)|Philip Francis]], Anglo-Irish clergyman and writer (d. [[1773]]) * [[July 22]] – [[Nathaniel Ames]], Colonial American physician (d. [[1764]]) * [[August 26]] ** [[Pierre-Joseph Bernard]], French military man and salon poet with the reputation of a rake (d. [[1775]]) ** [[Matteo Capranica]], Italian composer (d. [[1776]]) * [[August 29]] – [[Olof von Dalin]], Swedish nobleman (d. [[1763]]) * [[August 31]] – [[Sir John Rogers, 3rd Baronet]] (d. [[1773]]) * [[September 2]] – [[André le Breton]], French publisher (d. [[1779]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Revue des bibliothèques|author=Association des bibliothécaires français|publisher=Émile Bouillon|year=1909|page=298-299}}</ref> * [[September 4]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay]], officer of the marines, colonial administrator for New France (d. [[1777]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Charles Stanhope (1708–1736)|Charles Stanhope]], Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby (d. [[1736]]) * [[September 9]] – [[Paul Egede]], Dano-Norwegian theologian (d. [[1789]]) * [[September 10]] – [[Mathias Collett]], Norwegian civil servant (d. [[1759]]) * [[September 16]] – [[Catharina Freymann]], Norwegian educator and pietist leader (d. [[1791]]) * [[September 24]] – [[Manuel Rojo del Río y Vieyra]], Archbishop of Manila (d. [[1764]]) * [[September 25]] – [[Thomas Wood (1708–1799)|Thomas Wood]], British politician and MP (d. [[1799]]) * [[September 26]] – [[Ignatius Sichelbart]], German-Bohemian Jesuit missionary and painter (d. [[1780]]) === October–December === * [[October 2]] – [[William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland]] (d. [[1750]]) * [[October 4]] – [[Antonio Francesco Vezzosi]], Italian Theatine and biographical writer (d. [[1783]]) * [[October 5]] – [[Johann Christoph Petzold]], German sculptor who mainly worked in Denmark (d. [[1762]]) * [[October 9]] – [[Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc]], French nobleman, bibliophile and military man (d. [[1780]]) * [[October 12]] – [[John Wall (physician)|John Wall]], English physician (d. [[1776]]) * [[October 16]] – [[Albrecht von Haller]], Swiss anatomist and physiologist (d. [[1777]]) * [[October 20]] – [[Francis Webber]], Anglican priest (d. [[1771]]) * [[October 22]] ** [[Antoine-François, marquis de Lambertye]], French aristocrat of the Ancien Régime (d. [[1777]]) ** [[Louis Günther II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt]] (d. [[1790]]) ** [[Frederic Louis Norden]], Danish naval captain and explorer (d. [[1742]]) * [[October 27]] ** [[Hill Boothby]], English friend and late love of Samuel Johnson (d. [[1756]]) ** [[Jean-Rodolphe Perronet]], French architect and structural engineer (d. [[1794]]) * [[November 7]] ** [[William Plumsted]], mayor of Philadelphia in 1750 (d. [[1765]]) ** [[Henry Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle]] (d. [[1750]]) * [[November 15]] – [[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham]], [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]] (d. [[1778]])<ref>{{cite web |title=History of William Pitt 'The Elder', 1st Earl of Chatham - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/william-pitt-1st-earl-of-chatham |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=20 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref> * [[November 16]] – [[Gregorio Babbi]], Italian operatic tenor (d. [[1768]]) * [[November 28]] – [[Sir John Frederick, 4th Baronet]], British politician (d. [[1783]]) * [[November 30]] – [[Antoine de Laurès]], French poet and playwright from Languedoc (d. [[1779]]) * [[December 2]] ** [[Theodorick Bland of Cawsons]], clerk of the court of Prince George County, Virginia (d. [[1784]]) ** [[Marianus Königsperger]], German composer, organist and Catholic Monk of the Benedictine Order (d. [[1769]]) * [[December 3]] – [[Alessandro Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Cerveteri]], 2nd Principe di Cerveteri (d. [[1779]]) * [[December 6]] – [[Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye]], Canadian explorer and cartographer (d. [[1736]]) * [[December 8]] ** [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1765]]) ** Sir [[Charles Hanbury Williams]], Welsh diplomat, writer and satirist (d. [[1759]]) * [[December 10]] ** [[John Poulett, 2nd Earl Poulett]] (d. [[1764]]) ** [[Peregrine Poulett]], British politician and MP (d. [[1752]]) * [[December 16]] – [[Robert Livingston (1708–1790)|Robert Livingston]], third and final Lord of Livingston Manor (d. [[1790]]) * [[December 18]] – [[John Collier (caricaturist)|John Collier]], English caricaturist and satirical poet aka ''Tim Bobbin'' (d. [[1786]]) * [[December 28]] – [[Sigmund von Haimhausen]], Bavarian aristocrat (d. [[1793]]) * ''date unknown'' ** [[Baal Shem of London]], German-born Kabbalist (d. [[1782]]) ** [[Richard Dawes (classical scholar)|Richard Dawes]], English classical scholar (d. [[1766]]) ** [[Elizabeth Scott (hymnwriter)|Elizabeth Scott]], British-American poet, hymnwriter (d. [[1776]])
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