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== Births ==
[[File:Metastasio by Batoni.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pietro Metastasio]] born [[3 January]]]]
[[File:Giovanni_Battista_de'_Rossi.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Giovanni Battista de' Rossi]] born [[22 February]]]]
[[File:Crop of Portrait-Of-Lady-Jane-Douglas,-Full-Length,-As-A-Shepherdess-Seated-In-A-Landscape.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Lady Jane Douglas]] born [[17 March]]]]
[[File:Jan Vilímek - Prokop Diviš 2.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Prokop Diviš]] born [[26 March]]]]
[[File:Steven Hoogendijk.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Steven Hoogendijk]] born [[1 April]]]]
[[File:Henry Baker (naturalist).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Henry Baker (naturalist)]] born [[8 May]]]]
[[File:Weliwita Sri Saranankara thera.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Weliwita Sri Saranankara Thero]] born [[19 June]]]]
[[File:Jean-Michel Chevotet.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jean-Michel Chevotet]] born [[11 July]]]]
[[File:Giacomo Ceruti - self-portait - Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan (ritoccato) (crop).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Giacomo Ceruti]] born [[13 October]]]]
[[File:Ange Jacques Gabriel door Jean-Baptiste Greuze Louvre.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ange-Jacques Gabriel]] born [[23 October]]]]
[[File:Autoportrait Paul Troger 1728.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Paul Troger]] born [[30 October]]]]

=== January–March ===
* [[January 1]] – [[Leonardo VII Tocco]], Italian noble, the Prince of Montemiletto and the titular Prince of Achaea (d. [[1776]])
* [[January 3]] – [[Metastasio]], (b. Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi), Italian poet and opera librettist (d. [[1782]])
* [[January 7]] – [[Thomas Southwell, 2nd Baron Southwell]], Irish peer, politician and freemason (d. [[1766]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Auguste Louise of Württemberg-Oels]], Duchess of Württemberg-Oels by birth and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels-Barby (d. [[1739]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué]], Prussian Lieutenant general and General der Infanterie and a confidant of King Frederick the Great (d. [[1774]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix]], 18th-century French writer and playwright (d. [[1776]])
* [[February 7]] – [[Nicolas Sarrabat]], French mathematician and scientist (d. [[1739]])
* [[February 16]]
** [[Pierre Bouguer]], French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer (d. [[1758]])
** [[Johann Elias Ridinger]], German painter (d. [[1767]])
* [[February 19]] – [[William FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Cleveland]], English nobleman (d. [[1774]])
* [[February 20]]
** [[Gerard Arnout Hasselaer]], burgomaster and counsellor of the city of Amsterdam (d. [[1766]])
** [[Bernardo Tanucci]], Italian statesman (d. [[1783]])
* [[February 22]] – [[Giovanni Battista de' Rossi]], Italian Roman Catholic priest (d. [[1764]])
* [[February 23]] – [[Thomas Bladen]], colonial governor in North America and British MP (d. [[1780]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Sigismund von Schrattenbach]], Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg (d. [[1771]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Johannes Alberti]], Dutch theologian (d. [[1762]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Lady Jane Douglas]], Scottish noblewoman (d. [[1753]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Václav Prokop Diviš]], Czech priest, scientist and inventor (d. [[1765]])

=== April–June ===
* [[April 1]] – [[Steven Hoogendijk]], Rotterdam watch and instrument maker and physicist (d. [[1788]])
* [[April 2]] – [[Henry Edgar]], Scottish Episcopal minister, Bishop of Fife from 1762 to 1765 (d. [[1765]])
* [[April 5]] – [[Anne Hamilton, 2nd Countess of Ruglen]], Scottish noblewoman (d. [[1748]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Daniel Gerdes]], German Calvinist theologian and historian (d. [[1765]])
* [[April 28]] – [[John Phillipson]], British Navy administrator, commissioner, MP for over 20 years (d. [[1756]])
* [[May 1]] – [[Francesco Robba]], Italian sculptor (d. [[1757]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Henry Baker (naturalist)|Henry Baker]], British naturalist (d. [[1774]])
* [[May 10]]
** [[Cuthbert Ellison (British Army officer)|Cuthbert Ellison]], British Army officer and MP for Shaftesbury (d. [[1785]])
** [[François Parfaict]], 18th-century French theatre historian (d. [[1753]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Pierre Contant d'Ivry]], French architect and designer (d. [[1777]])
* [[May 17]]
** [[Gio Nicola Buhagiar]], Maltese painter (d. [[1752]])
** [[Sir John Major, 1st Baronet]], British merchant (d. [[1781]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Lord William Beauclerk]], British army officer and politician (d. [[1733]])
* [[May 24]] – [[John, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen]] (d. [[1780]])
* [[June 2]] – [[Henry Miles]], English Dissenting minister, scientific writer, Fellow of the Royal Society (d. [[1763]])
* [[June 15]] – [[George Browne (soldier)|George Browne]], Irish soldier of fortune in Russian service (d. [[1792]])
* [[June 19]]
** [[Aoki Konyō]], Confucian scholar (d. [[1769]])
** [[Weliwita Sri Saranankara Thero]], Last Sangharaja of Sri Lanka (d. [[1778]])
* [[June 22]] – [[Charles-Hugues Le Febvre de Saint-Marc]], 18th-century French playwright and homme de lettres (d. [[1769]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Lord Nassau Powlett]], English army officer and MP (d. [[1741]])

=== July–September ===
* [[July 8]] – [[Nicolò Maria Antonelli]], Italian Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church (d. [[1767]])
* [[July 11]]
** [[Jean-Michel Chevotet]], French architect (d. [[1772]])
** [[George Turnbull (theologian)|George Turnbull]], Scottish philosopher (d. [[1748]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis]], French mathematician (d. [[1759]])
* [[July 19]]
** [[Johann Jakob Bodmer]], Swiss author (d. [[1783]])
** [[John Clavering (died 1762)|John Clavering]], English MP and Groom of the Bedchamber at the Court of George II (d. [[1762]])
* [[July 24]] – [[František Jiránek]], Czech (Bohemian) Baroque composer (d. [[1778]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Samuel Klingenstierna]], Swedish mathematician and scientist (d. [[1765]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Louis Fornel]], Canadian merchant (d. [[1745]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Erik Pontoppidan]], Danish author (d. [[1764]])
* [[August 29]]
** [[Richard Pearsall]], English Congregationalist minister, friend of Philip Doddridge (d. [[1762]])
** [[Jacob Vernet]], prominent theologian in Geneva (d. [[1789]])
* [[September 6]] – [[Jean Thurel]], French soldier (d. [[1807]])
* [[September 8]]
** [[François Francoeur]], French composer and violinist (d. [[1787]])
** [[Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt]], princess of Hesse-Darmstadt and through her marriage a princess of Hesse-Kassel (d. [[1777]])
* [[September 14]] – [[Charles François de Cisternay du Fay]], French chemist and superintendent of the Jardin du Roi (d. [[1739]])
* [[September 15]] – [[Pier Francesco Guala]], Italian painter (d. [[1757]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Lewis Morris (speaker)|Lewis Morris]], colonial American judge (d. [[1762]])
* [[September 26]] – [[William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire]], British nobleman, Whig politician and MP (d. [[1755]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Joachim Christian von Tresckow]], Prussian Lieutenant General (d. [[1762]])

=== October–December ===
* [[October 6]] – [[François-Bernard Lépicié]], 18th-century French engraver (d. [[1755]])
* [[October 7]] – [[Henry Madin]], French composer at the Chapelle royale (d. [[1748]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Jean Paul Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac]], Marshal of France (d. [[1784]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Giacomo Ceruti]], Italian late Baroque painter (d. [[1767]])
* [[October 23]]
** [[Ange-Jacques Gabriel]], principal architect of King Louis XV of France (d. [[1782]])
** [[John Jortin]], English church historian (d. [[1770]])
* [[October 30]]
** [[Peter Thompson (antiquarian)|Peter Thompson]], English merchant (d. [[1770]])
** [[Paul Troger]], Austrian painter (d. [[1762]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Caleb Fleming]], English dissenting minister and Polemicist (d. [[1779]])
* [[November 6]] – [[Sir Alexander Lauder, 4th Baronet]] (d. [[1730]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Alberico Archinto]], Italian cardinal and papal diplomat (d. [[1758]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Maria Taylor Byrd]], colonial woman who managed her and her husband William Byrd II's Westover Plantation when he was absent (d. [[1771]])
* [[November 22]] – [[Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial]], Canadian-born colonial governor of French Canada in North America (d. [[1778]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Jacob Johann Köhler]], Estonian printer who published the first Estonian-language Bible in 1739 (d. [[1757]])
* [[November 24]] – [[Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry]], Scottish nobleman, extensive landowner, Privy Counsellor, Vice Admiral of Scotland (d. [[1778]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Charlotta Frölich]], Swedish agronomist (d. [[1770]])
* [[December 2]] – [[Oliver Legipont]], German Benedictine bibliographer (d. [[1758]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Anthony Mooyart]], acting Governor of Ceylon during the Dutch period in Ceylon (d. [[1767]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Mark Hiddesley]], Anglican churchman (d. [[1773]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Paul Fourdrinier]], English engraver (d. [[1758]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton]], powerful Jacobite politician (d. [[1731]])
* [[December 24]] – [[William Warburton]], English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (d. [[1779]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Jacobus Houbraken]], Dutch engraver and the son of the artist and biographer Arnold Houbraken (d. [[1780]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Filippo della Valle]], Italian late-Baroque or early Neoclassic sculptor (d. [[1768]])
* [[December 27]] – [[Vlaho Kabužić]], Ragusan nobleman and diplomat (d. [[1750]])
* ''date unknown'' 
**[[Bernard Forest de Bélidor]], French engineer (d. [[1761]])
**[[William Moraley]], English-American indentured servant and autobiographer, a primary source for life in the [[Province of Pennsylvania]] (d. [[1762]])
**[[Baal Shem Tov]], Polish rabbi and founder of the [[Hasidic movement]] of Judaism.