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== Births == [[File:Marco Foscarini.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Marco Foscarini]] born [[4 February]]]] [[File:Esther Wheelwright.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Esther Wheelwright]] born [[10 April]]]] [[File:Francisca Christina of the Palatinate-Sulzbach princess-abbess of Essen and Thorn.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Countess Palatine Franziska Christine of Sulzbach]] born [[16 May]]]] [[File:Mahmud1.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Mahmud I]] born [[2 August]]]] [[File:G.Pozzobonelli.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Giuseppe Pozzobonelli]] born [[11 August]]]] [[File:Charles Gray.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Charles Gray (Colchester MP)]] born [[20 September]]]] [[File:St Alphonsus Liguori.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Alphonsus Liguori]] born [[27 September]]]] [[File:JhnHervey.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey]] born [[13 October]]]] [[File:Louis de Silvestre - Portrait of Augustus III of Poland (after 1733) - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Augustus III of Poland]] born [[17 October]]]] [[File:Maria Crostarosa.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Giulia Crostarosa]] born [[31 October]]]] [[File:ConradWeiserPortrait.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Conrad Weiser]] born [[2 November]]]] [[File:Zorawar Singh Chhote Sahibzada.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Zorawar Singh (Sikhism)]] born [[17 November]]]] [[File:Anne Madeleine Remuzat.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Anne-Madeleine Remuzat]] born [[29 November]]]] === January–March === * [[January 5]] – [[Giuseppe Galli Bibiena]], Italian artist (d. [[1757]]) * [[January 8]] – [[Étienne Parrocel]], French painter (d. [[1775]]) * [[January 11]] – [[Frederick William, Prince of Solms-Braunfels]] (d. [[1761]]) * [[January 14]] ** [[Troiano Acquaviva d'Aragona]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1747]]) ** [[John Hippisley (actor)|John Hippisley]], English actor and theatre manager (1696–1748) (d. [[1748]]) * [[January 17]] ** [[Jean de Beaurain]], French geographer (d. [[1771]]) ** [[Laurent Delvaux]], Flemish sculptor (d. [[1778]]) ** [[Ambrose Madison]], American planter and politician (d. [[1732]]) * [[January 18]] ** [[Ludovico Calini]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1782]]) ** [[Sebastian Klotz]], German violin maker (d. [[1775]]) * [[January 22]] – [[Johann Jakob Brucker]], German historian of philosophy (d. [[1770]]) * [[January 31]] – [[John Wigan (physician)|John Wigan]], British physician and author (1696–1739) (d. [[1739]]) * [[February 2]] – [[Juan José Eguiara y Eguren]], Mexican bishop (d. [[1763]]) * [[February 3]] – [[Caspar Wistar (glassmaker)|Caspar Wistar]], American glassmaker (d. [[1752]]) * [[February 4]] – [[Marco Foscarini]], 117th Doge of Venice (d. [[1763]]) * [[February 10]] – [[Johann Melchior Molter]], German composer (d. [[1765]]) * [[February 17]] – [[Ernst Gottlieb Baron]], German composer (d. [[1760]]) * [[February 22]] – [[Henrietta Polyxena of Vasaborg]], Swedish countess (d. [[1777]]) * [[February 25]] – [[Jean-Philippe-René de La Bléterie]], French historian and translator (d. [[1772]]) * [[February 29]] – [[Esprit Antoine Blanchard]], French baroque composer (d. [[1770]]) * [[March 5]] – [[Giovanni Battista Tiepolo]], Italian painter (d. [[1770]]) * [[March 6]] – [[Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer]], German sculptor (d. [[1770]]) * [[March 10]] – [[John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland]], Scottish nobleman, diplomat and politician (d. [[1782]]) * [[March 13]] – [[Armand de Vignerot du Plessis]], French diplomat (d. [[1788]]) * [[March 15]] – [[François-Arnoul Poisson de Roinville]], French actor (d. [[1753]]) * [[March 17]] – [[Lajos Batthyány (palatine)|Lajos Batthyány]], Hungarian palatine (d. [[1765]]) * [[March 18]] – [[Domenico Maria Fratta]], Italian painter and draughtsman (d. [[1763]]) * [[March 21]] – [[Pierre Février]], French composer, organist, and harpsichordist (d. [[1760]]) * [[March 23]] – [[Johann Erhard Kapp]], German author and historian (d. [[1756]]) * [[March 27]] ** [[Antoine Court (Huguenot)|Antoine Court]], French Huguenot minister (d. [[1760]]) ** [[Charles Ingram (politician)|Charles Ingram]], British army officer (d. [[1748]]) * [[March 30]] ** [[Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Mustafa II)|Ayşe Sultan]], daughter of Ottoman Sultan Mustafa II (d. [[1752]]) ** [[John Worsley (scholar)|John Worsley]], scholar (d. [[1767]]) === April–June === * [[April 2]] – [[Francesca Cuzzoni]], Italian operatic soprano (d. [[1778]]) * [[April 3]] – [[Diego Bernardo de Peredo y Navarrete]], Mexican Roman Catholic clergyman, bishop of Yucatán (d. [[1774]]) * [[April 6]] ** [[Charles Beauclerk, 2nd Duke of St Albans]], British politician (d. [[1751]]) ** [[Richard Grey (priest)|Richard Grey]], priest (d. [[1771]]) * [[April 8]] – [[Wichmann Lastrop]], Hamburg merchant and grand burgher (d. [[1747]]) * [[April 10]] – [[Esther Wheelwright]], Ursuline nun (d. [[1780]]) * [[April 12]] – [[Joseph Atwell]], English cleric (d. [[1768]]) * [[April 14]] – [[Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]], German duchess (d. [[1762]]) * [[April 15]] – [[François Morellon la Cave]], French engraver (d. [[1768]]) * [[April 19]] – [[Burchard Mauchart]], German anatomist and surgeon (d. [[1751]]) * [[April 20]] – [[Curtis Barnett]], Royal Navy officer (d. [[1746]]) * [[April 21]] – [[Francesco de Mura]], Italian painter (d. [[1782]]) * [[April 26]] – [[Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski]], Polish noble (d. [[1775]]) * [[April 27]] – [[John Lyon, 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne]], Scottish Earl (d. [[1715]]) * [[May 2]] – [[Thomas Chester (1696–1763)|Thomas Chester]], British Member of Parliament (d. [[1763]]) * [[May 4]] – [[Louis de Cormontaigne]], French engineer (d. [[1752]]) * [[May 7]] – [[Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen]], German noblewoman (d. [[1726]]) * [[May 11]] – [[George Crowle]], British Whig MP (d. [[1754]]) * [[May 16]] – [[Countess Palatine Franziska Christine of Sulzbach]], Abess of Thorn and Abbess of Essen (d. [[1776]]) * [[May 22]] – [[William Rathbone II]], British businessman (d. [[1746]]) * [[May 23]] – [[Johann Caspar Vogler]], German composer (d. [[1763]]) * [[May 28]] – [[Giovanni Lorenzo Berti]], Italian theologian (d. [[1766]]) * [[June 5]] – [[Peregrine Hopson]], British Army general (d. [[1759]]) * [[June 6]] – [[Peter Spaak]], Swedish Protestant reformer (d. [[1759]]) * [[June 9]] – [[Shivaji II]], Ruler of Maratha Empire (d. [[1726]]) * [[June 11]] – [[James Francis Edward Keith]], Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. [[1758]]) * [[June 14]] – [[Al-Mansur al-Husayn II]], imam (d. [[1748]]) * [[June 18]] – [[Friedrich August von Harrach-Rohrau]], plenipotentiary minister of the Austrian Netherlands (d. [[1749]]) * [[June 21]] – [[John Gibbes (Carolina)|John Gibbes]], English military officer in the province of Carolina (d. [[1764]]) * [[June 27]] – [[William Pepperrell]], English colonial soldier (d. [[1759]]) === July–September === * [[July 14]] ** [[Buenaventura Blanco y Elguero (Helguero)|Buenaventura Blanco y Elguero]], Roman Catholic bishop (d. [[1764]]) ** [[William Oldys]], English antiquarian and bibliographer, Norroy king-at-arms (d. [[1761]]) * [[July 22]] – [[Eric Julius Biörner]], state official and a scholar of ancient history (d. [[1750]]) * [[July 24]] – [[Benning Wentworth]], Colonial governor of New Hampshire (d. [[1770]]) * [[July 27]] – [[Samuel Whittemore]], American farmer and oldest known colonial combatant of the [[American Revolution]] (d. [[1793]]) * [[July 28]] – [[Élisabeth Bégon]], French writer (d. [[1755]]) * [[July 31]] – [[Dumont de Montigny]], French colonial officer, farmer, and author (d. [[1760]]) * [[August 2]] – [[Mahmud I]], Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1730 to 1754 (d. [[1754]]) * [[August 4]] – [[Christian August I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg]] (d. [[1754]]) * [[August 6]] – [[Johann Gregor Herold]], German painter (d. [[1775]]) * [[August 7]] – [[Samuel Waldo]], American businessman, land speculator, and militia general (d. [[1759]]) * [[August 8]] – [[Jean Girard]], Canadian musician (d. [[1765]]) * [[August 9]] – [[Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein]], Austrian marshall (d. [[1772]]) * [[August 11]] – [[Giuseppe Pozzobonelli]], Archbishop of Milan (d. [[1783]]) * [[August 12]] – [[Maurice Greene (composer)|Maurice Greene]], English composer and organist (d. [[1755]]) * [[August 16]] – [[Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson]], French politician (d. [[1764]]) * [[August 17]] – [[John Thomas (bishop of Winchester)|John Thomas]], Bishop of Winchester, of Salisbury and of Peterborough (d. [[1781]]) * [[September 7]] – [[Christoph Friedrich von Lattorf]], German military personnel (d. [[1762]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Basil Hamilton]], British Member of Parliament (d. [[1742]]) * [[September 13]] ** [[Johann Caspar Bagnato]], German architect (d. [[1757]]) ** [[Christoph Ludwig von Stille]], Prussian Major General (d. [[1752]]) * [[September 14]] – [[Batty Langley]], British garden designer (d. [[1751]]) * [[September 17]] – [[Eunice Kanenstenhawi Williams]], Native American captive (d. [[1785]]) * [[September 18]] – [[Thomas Hunt (Arabic scholar)|Thomas Hunt]], English academic, Oxford Laudian Professor of Arabic (d. [[1774]]) * [[September 20]] – [[Charles Gray (Colchester MP)|Charles Gray]], British politician (d. [[1782]]) * [[September 25]] ** [[Sir Archibald Grant, 2nd Baronet]], Scottish politician (d. [[1778]]) ** [[Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand]], French salon-holder (d. [[1780]]) * [[September 27]] ** [[Sir John St Aubyn, 3rd Baronet]], British politician (d. [[1744]]) ** [[Hendrik Carré II]], Dutch painter (d. [[1775]]) ** [[Alphonsus Liguori]], Italian founder of the Redemptorist Order (d. [[1787]]) * [[September 30]] – [[Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran]], French admiral of the Seven Years' War (d. [[1764]]) === October–December === * [[October 2]] ** [[John Blackwood (art dealer)|John Blackwood]], British Member of Parliament (d. [[1777]]) ** [[Ann Smith Franklin]], American colonial newspaper printer and publisher (d. [[1763]]) * [[October 10]] – [[Chen Hongmou]], Chinese official and philosopher (d. [[1771]]) * [[October 13]] – [[John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey]], English courtier, political writer and memoirist (d. [[1743]]) * [[October 14]] – [[Samuel Johnson (American educator)|Samuel Johnson]], President of Columbia University (d. [[1772]]) * [[October 17]] – [[Augustus III of Poland]], King of Poland, Elector of Saxony (d. [[1763]]) * [[October 20]] – [[Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]], Count and later Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (d. [[1765]]) * [[October 21]] ** [[Charles Louis, Count of Marsan]], French noble (d. [[1755]]) ** [[John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland]], English nobleman (d. [[1779]]) ** [[James Fitz-James Stuart, 2nd Duke of Berwick]], Jacobite and Spanish general and noble (d. [[1738]]) * [[October 28]] – [[Maurice de Saxe]], Marshal General of France (d. [[1750]]) * [[October 31]] – [[Giulia Crostarosa]], Italian catholic nun and foundress (d. [[1755]]) * [[November 1]] – [[Karl Ferdinand von Königsegg-Erps]], Belgian politician (d. [[1759]]) * [[November 2]] ** [[Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon (1696–1750)|Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon]], French noble (d. [[1750]]) ** [[Conrad Weiser]], Pennsylvania's interpreter and emissary to the Native Americans (d. [[1760]]) * [[November 7]] – [[Heinrich von Manteuffel]], German military personnel (d. [[1778]]) * [[November 11]] – [[Andrea Zani]], Italian violinist and composer (d. [[1757]]) * [[November 12]] – [[Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon]], English noble (d. [[1746]]) * [[November 17]] ** [[Samuel Cluckston]], Connecticut politician (d. [[1751]]) ** [[Zorawar Singh (Sikhism)|Zorawar Singh]], Sikh martyr (d. [[1705]]) * [[November 19]] – [[Louis Tocqué]], French painter (d. [[1772]]) * [[November 22]] – [[Tokugawa Muneharu]], A daimyo in the mid-Edo period (d. [[1764]]) * [[November 29]] – [[Anne-Madeleine Remuzat]], French nun recognized as venerable (d. [[1730]]) * [[December 1]] – [[Francis Burton (1696–1744)|Francis Burton]], Irish politician (d. [[1744]]) * [[December 2]] – [[Daniel de Superville (1696–1773)|Daniel de Superville]], founded University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (d. [[1773]]) * [[December 13]] ** [[Egid Verhelst the Elder]], Flemish sculptor (d. [[1749]]) ** [[Safiye Sultan (daughter of Mustafa II)|Safiye Sultan]], daughter of Ottoman Sultan Mustafa II (d. [[1778]]) * [[December 22]] – [[James Oglethorpe]], English general and founder of the state of Georgia as a colony (d. [[1785]]) * [[December 25]] – [[Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar]], composer (d. [[1715]]) * [[December 31]] – [[Thomas Winnington (1696–1746)|Thomas Winnington]], British politician (d. [[1746]]) * ''date unknown'' ** [[William Beverley]], American legislator, civil servant, planter, and landowner (d. [[1756]])<ref name="Byrd1">{{cite journal | last= Byrd |first=William | date=October 1916 | title=Letters of William Byrd, First (Continued) | journal = The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography | publisher= [[Virginia Historical Society]] | location = [[Richmond, Virginia]] | pages= 350–360 | volume = 24 | issue = 4 | jstor=4243546 }}</ref><ref name="Evans1">{{cite book | last=Evans | first=Emory G. | year=2009 | title=A "Topping People": The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Political Elite, 1680–1790 | publisher=[[University of Virginia Press]] | location=[[Charlottesville, Virginia]] | isbn=978-0-8139-3037-4 | oclc=263497804 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6zD3qWWbxsC | archive-date=2016-04-21 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421080543/https://books.google.com/books?id=g6zD3qWWbxsC | url-status=live }}</ref> ** [[Christine Kirch]], German astronomer (d. [[1782]]) ** [[Carlo Zimech]], Maltese priest and painter (d. [[1766]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Schiavone|first1=Michael J.|title=Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. II G-Z|year=2009|publisher=Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza|location=[[Pietà, Malta|Pietà]]|isbn=9789993291329|page=1711}}</ref>
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