Editing 1708 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Anton Wilhelm Plaz]], German physician and botanist (d. [[1784]])
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Johannes Van Rensselaer]], member of the prominent colonial Van Rensselaer family (d. [[1783]])
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Donat Nonnotte]], French painter who specialized in portraiture (d. [[1785]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Charles Armand René de La Trémoille]], French soldier and president of the States of Brittany (d. [[1741]])
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Salvemini]], Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. [[1791]])
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos]] (d. [[1771]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Luigi Crespi]], Italian painter (d. [[1779]])
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Pompeo Batoni]], Italian painter (d. [[1787]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[Georg Dionysius Ehret]], botanist and entomologist known for his botanical illustrations (d. [[1770]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Johann Michael Hartung]], German organ builder and public figure from Dürkheim (d. [[1763]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Václav Jan Kopřiva]], Bohemian composer and organist (d. [[1789]])
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[Scrope Berdmore]], English clergyman (d. [[1770]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Chauncy Townsend]], City of London merchant and a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Great Britain (d. [[1770]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[John Campbell (author)|John Campbell]], Scottish author (d. [[1775]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[John Hulse]], British Anglican priest (d. [[1790]])
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[Johanna Magdalene of Saxe-Weissenfels]], Duchess consort of Courland (d. [[1760]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Ernst Henrich Berling]], German-Danish book printer and publisher (d. [[1750]])
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere]] (d. [[1774]])
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Jean Chastel]], farmer and inn-keeper from the province of Gévaudan in France (d. [[1790]])