Editing 1719 (section)

=== May ===
* [[May 5]] – [[Andrew Meikle]], Scottish engineer (d. [[1811]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Jean Baptiste Christy de La Pallière]], French Navy officer (d. [[1787]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Nicholas Dias Abeysinghe]], ceylonese Dutch colonial administrator (d. [[1794]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Bjarni Pálsson]], Icelandic doctor (d. [[1779]])
* [[May 19]]
** [[Johann von Fries]], counsellor, director of the imperial silk factories, industrialist, banker (d. [[1785]])
** [[Charlotte of Monaco (1719–1790)|Charlotte of Monaco]], Monegasque princess and nun (d. [[1790]])
** [[Matthew Patten]], American judge (d. [[1795]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Roger Newdigate]], English politician, antiquities collector (d. [[1806]])
* [[May 22]]
** [[Charles Howard, Viscount Morpeth]], British politician (d. [[1741]])
** [[Julia von Mengden]], Russian noble (d. [[1787]])
** [[Matsudaira Nobunao]], daimyo of the middle Edo period; 2nd lord of Hamamatsu, later 1st lord of Yoshida (d. [[1768]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Eyre Massey, 1st Baron Clarina]], Irish Baron (d. [[1804]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Henri-Joseph Dulaurens]], French writer (d. [[1793]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Lorenzo De Caro]], Italian painter (d. [[1777]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Robert Rutherfurd]], Scottish merchant, Baron of the Russian Empire (d. [[1794]])