Editing 1750 (section)

== Births ==
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Bergasse]], French lawyer (d. [[1832]])
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Helen Gloag]], Scottish-born enslaved Empress of [[Morocco]] (d. [[1790]])
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Caroline Herschel]], German astronomer (d. [[1848]])
* [[April]] &ndash; [[Joanna Southcott]], British religious fanatic (d. [[1814]])
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[François de Neufchâteau]], French statesman, intellectual figure (d. [[1828]])
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[John André]], British Army officer of the [[American Revolutionary War]] (d. [[1780]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Stephen Girard]], French-American banker, fourth richest American of all time (d. [[1831]])
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Adamson Tannehill]], American general and politician (d. [[1820]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo]], Portuguese diplomat, scientist (d. [[1807]])
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Karl August von Hardenberg]], [[Prussia]]n politician (d. [[1822]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[William Morgan (actuary)|William Morgan]], British statistician, actuary (d. [[1833]])
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Aimé Argand]], Swiss physicist, inventor (d. [[1803]]) 
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[Bathilde d'Orléans|Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde d'Orléans]], last princess of Condé (d.[[1822]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Henry Knox]], military officer of the [[Continental Army]] and later the [[United States Army]], 1st [[United States Secretary of War]] (d. [[1806]])
[[File:Antonio Salieri painted by Joseph Willibrord Mähler.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Antonio Salieri]]]]
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Antonio Salieri]], Italian composer (d. [[1825]])
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood]], British admiral (d. [[1810]])
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[Abraham Woodhull]], Patriot spy during the American Revolutionary War (d. [[1826]])
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Marie Le Masson Le Golft]], French naturalist (b. [[1826]]) 
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Leonor de Almeida Portugal, 4th Marquise of Alorna]], Portuguese painter and poet (d. [[1839]])
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[Carlo Aurelio Widmann]], Venetian nobleman and admiral (d. [[1798]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Widmann|first=Carlo Aurelio |last2=Chiggiato|first2=Alvise|title=La nave ben manovrata, ossia, Trattato di manovra|publisher=La Malcontenta|location=Venice|year=1995|oclc=46795739|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=61b5r5SPfOYC|pages=ii–iii}}</ref>
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg]], German poet (d. [[1819]])
[[File:Tipu Sultan BL.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Tipu Sultan]]]]
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Tipu Sultan]], Sultan of [[Mysore]] (d. [[1799]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Frederick Augustus I of Saxony]] (d. [[1827]])
* ''date unknown''
**[[Toypurina]], Medicine woman of the Tongva nation and rebel leader (d. [[1799]])
**[[Adwaita]], Oldest tortoise (d. [[2006]]) (alleged birth year; awaiting [[C14 dating|C-14 verification]])
**[[Urszula Zamoyska]], Polish noblewoman and socialite (d. [[1808]])
**[[Elizabeth Ryves]], Irish writer and translator (d. [[1797]])
**Moulvi Syed Qudratullah, Bengali judge (d. [[1839]])<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mkantho.com/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8C%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%80-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%88%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%A6-%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A4-%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9/|language=bn|website=MKantho|script-title=bn:মৌলভী সৈয়দ কুদরত উল্লাহ'র ১৮০ তম মৃত্যুবার্ষিকী আজ|date=12 February 2019|access-date=January 10, 2022|archive-date=February 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216053249/http://www.mkantho.com/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8C%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%80-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%88%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%A6-%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A4-%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9/|url-status=dead}}</ref>