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=== January–March ===
* [[January 2]] – [[FitzRoy Henry Lee]], British officer of the Royal Navy, Commodore Governor of the Colony of Newfoundland (d. [[1750]])
* [[January 9]]
** [[Christian Tobias Damm]], renowned German Classical philologist (d. [[1778]])
** [[Robert Joseph Pothier]], French jurist (d. [[1772]])
* [[January 11]] – [[Friedrich Wilhelm Quirin von Forcade de Biaix]], Royal Prussian Lieutenant General (d. [[1765]])
* [[January 14]] – [[Jakob Adlung]], German organist, teacher, instrument maker, music historian, composer and music theorist (d. [[1762]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Franz Christoph Anton, Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen]], member of the House of Hohenzollern (d. [[1767]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Thomas Hervey (politician)|Thomas Hervey]], politician (d. [[1775]])
* [[January 30]] – [[Infanta Francisca Josefa of Portugal]], Portuguese princess, the last of eight children of King Peter II of Portugal (d. [[1736]])
* [[January 31]] – [[Mathias Haydn]], father of two famous composers (d. [[1763]])
* [[February 2]] – [[Hugh MacDonald (vicar apostolic of the Highland District)|Hugh MacDonald]], Roman Catholic bishop, Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District of Scotland 1731–1773 (d. [[1773]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Étienne Jeaurat]], French painter (d. [[1789]])
* [[February 10]] – [[George Bowman (pioneer)|George Bowman]], 18th-century American pioneer (d. [[1768]])
* [[February 11]]
** [[Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais]], French naval officer and colonial administrator (d. [[1753]])
** [[Samuel Heathcote]], British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1740 to 1747 (d. [[1775]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Odet-Joseph Giry]], French clergyman (d. [[1761]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Giovanni Maria Morlaiter]], Italian sculptor of the Rococo or late-Baroque (d. [[1782]])
* [[February 17]] – [[Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff]], painter and architect in Prussia (d. [[1753]])
* [[February 24]] – [[Giuseppe Pascaletti]], Italian painter (d. [[1757]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Georg Detlev von Flemming]], General in Polish-Saxon service (d. [[1771]])
* [[March 7]] – [[António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches]], 18th-century Portuguese physician (d. [[1783]])
* [[March 8]] – [[Johan Friederich Wewer]], Danish merchant and ship-owner (d. [[1759]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Jacob Faggot]], Swedish scientist, civil servant and surveyor (d. [[1777]])
* [[March 17]]
** [[Radu Cantacuzino]], 18th-century Romanian prince (d. [[1761]])
** [[Charles O'Brien, 6th Viscount Clare]], Irish military officer in French service (d. [[1761]])
* [[March 23]] – [[John Bartram]], American botanist (d. [[1777]])
* [[March 24]]
** [[David Renaud Boullier]], Dutch Huguenot theologian (d. [[1759]])
** [[Paul Gottlieb Werlhof]], German physician and poet who was a native of Helmstedt (d. [[1767]])
* [[March 25]]
** [[James Calthorpe (Yeoman of the Removing Wardrobe)|James Calthorpe]], Yeoman of the Removing Wardrobe (d. [[1784]])
** [[Johann Adolph Hasse]], German composer (d. [[1783]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Hubert-François Gravelot]], French engraver (d. [[1773]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Edward Stradling (1699–1726)|Edward Stradling]], Welsh politician (d. [[1726]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Françoise-Louise de Warens]], benefactress and mistress of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (d. [[1762]])