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== Births == [[File:Louis, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine circa 1706 by Pierre Gobert (Musée Lorrain).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Louis, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine]] born [[28 January]]]] [[File:Charles_Pinot_Duclos_by_Maurice_Quentin_de_La_Tour.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Charles Pinot Duclos]] born [[12 February]]]] [[File:Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne]] born [[15 February]]]] [[File:Louis Godin.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Louis Godin]] born [[28 February]]]] [[File:Jacques DuMont Le Romain by Maurice-Quentin de la Tour.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jacques Dumont le Romain]] born [[10 May]]]] [[File:Carlos Seixas2.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Carlos Seixas]] born [[11 June]]]] [[File:PublicDomainColourPortraitOfJohnKayBorn1704.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Kay (flying shuttle)]] born [[17 June]]]] [[File:James G Montresor bw.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[James Gabriel Montresor]] born [[19 November]]]] === January–March === * [[January 1]] ** [[Soame Jenyns]], English writer and Member of Parliament (d. [[1787]]) ** [[Thomas Newton]], English cleric (d. [[1782]]) * [[January 6]] – [[Michael Becher]], Bristol-born English slave trader and merchant (d. [[1758]]) * [[January 16]] – [[Finnur Jónsson (bishop)|Finnur Jónsson]], Icelandic pastor, Bishop of Skálholt from 1754 to 1785 (d. [[1789]]) * [[January 28]] – [[Louis, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine]] (d. [[1711]]) * [[January 29]] – [[Francesco Appiani]], Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (d. [[1792]]) * [[February 4]] – [[Anna Susanne von der Osten]], Danish courtier and philanthropist (d. [[1773]]) * [[February 5]] – [[Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont]] (d. [[1722]]) * [[February 6]] – [[John Mercer (colonial lawyer)|John Mercer]], colonial American lawyer (d. [[1768]]) * [[February 12]] ** [[Charles Pinot Duclos]], French writer (d. [[1772]]) ** [[Jan Schreuder]], 30th Governor of Zeylan during the Dutch period in Ceylon (d. [[1764]]) * [[February 15]] ** [[Aloysius Bellecius]], Jesuit ascetic author (d. [[1757]]) ** [[Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne]], French sculptor who worked in both the rococo and neoclassical style (d. [[1778]]) * [[February 17]] ** [[Marie-Madeleine Hachard]], French letter writer and abbess of the Ursuline order (d. [[1760]]) ** [[Józef Pułaski]] (d. [[1769]]) ** [[Prince John August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg]], German prince (d. [[1767]]) * [[February 24]] – [[Johann Hieronymus Kniphof]], German physician and botanist (d. [[1763]]) * [[February 28]] ** [[Louis Godin]], French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences (d. [[1760]]) ** [[Hans Hermann von Katte]], Lieutenant of the [[Prussian Army]] (d. [[1730]]) * [[February 29]] – [[Phillips Payson]], American Congregationalist minister for the town of Walpole (d. [[1778]]) * [[March 6]] – [[John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward]] (d. [[1774]]) * [[March 10]] – [[Josias Lyndon]], governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d. [[1778]]) * [[March 17]] – [[Lord Charles Cavendish]] (d. [[1783]]) * [[March 21]] – [[Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis]] (d. [[1773]]) === April–June === * [[April 1]] – [[Amalie von Wallmoden, Countess of Yarmouth]], principal mistress of King George II from the mid-1730s (d. [[1765]]) * [[April 4]] – [[Andreas Brünniche]], Danish portrait painter (d. [[1769]]) * [[April 7]] – [[Guillaume-François Berthier]], Jesuit professor and writer (d. [[1782]]) * [[April 10]] – [[Benjamin Heath]], English classical scholar (d. [[1766]]) * [[April 13]] – [[Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford]] (d. [[1790]]) * [[April 17]] ** [[Paolo Girolamo Besozzi]], Italian oboe virtuoso and bassoonist (d. [[1778]]) ** [[Jean-Baptiste Chermanne]], architect and businessman active in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège (d. [[1770]]) * [[April 21]] – [[Gabriel Manigault (merchant)|Gabriel Manigault]], American merchant (d. [[1781]]) * [[April 29]] – [[Arthur Denny (politician)|Arthur Denny]], Irish politician (d. [[1742]]) * [[April 30]] – [[Jean Adam]], Scottish poet from the labouring classes (d. [[1765]]) * [[May 6]] – [[Fath Muhammad]], general of Mysore and the father of Hyder Ali (d. [[1725]]) * [[May 7]] – [[Carl Heinrich Graun]], German composer and tenor (d. [[1759]]) * [[May 8]] – [[Gaspare Testone]], Italian painter and architect (d. [[1801]]) * [[May 10]] – [[Jacques Dumont le Romain]], French history and portrait painter (d. [[1781]]) * [[June 1]] – [[Johann Baptist Straub]] (d. [[1784]]) * [[June 4]] – [[Benjamin Huntsman]], English inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel (d. [[1776]]) * [[June 11]] – [[Carlos Seixas]], Portuguese composer (d. [[1742]]) * [[June 16]] – [[Edward Ward, 9th Baron Dudley]] (d. [[1731]]) * [[June 17]] – [[John Kay (flying shuttle)|John Kay]], inventor of the flying shuttle (d. [[1780]]) * [[June 22]] – [[John Taylor (classical scholar)|John Taylor]], English classical scholar (d. [[1766]]) * [[June 24]] ** [[Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens]], French writer (d. [[1771]]) ** [[John Ward (actor)|John Ward]], English actor and theatre manager (d. [[1773]]) * [[June 29]] – [[Azad Bilgrami]], scholar of Arabic (d. [[1786]]) === July–September === * [[July 4]] – [[Michel de Sallaberry]] (d. [[1768]]) * [[July 15]] – [[August Gottlieb Spangenberg]], German theologian and minister (d. [[1792]]) * [[July 31]] – [[Gabriel Cramer]], Swiss mathematician (d. [[1752]]) * [[August 3]] ** [[Catherine-Nicole Lemaure]], French operatic soprano (d. [[1786]]) ** [[Benjamin Shoemaker]], colonial Pennsylvania Quaker (d. [[1767]]) * [[August 5]] – [[William Allen (loyalist)|William Allen]], wealthy merchant (d. [[1780]]) * [[August 11]] – [[Karl August von Bergen]] (d. [[1759]]) * [[August 12]] – [[Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken]] (d. [[1774]]) * [[August 13]] – [[Alexis Fontaine des Bertins]], French mathematician (d. [[1771]]) * [[August 21]] – [[Johann Georg, Chevalier de Saxe]] (d. [[1774]]) * [[August 26]] ** [[Marie-Anne Barbel]], French-Canadian Businesswomen who lived in New France (d. [[1793]]) ** [[Guy Michel de Durfort]], French general and nobleman (d. [[1773]]) ** [[Pierre L'Enfant (painter)|Pierre L'Enfant]], painter (d. [[1787]]) * [[September 3]] – [[Joseph de Jussieu]], French botanist and explorer (d. [[1779]]) * [[September 5]] – [[Maurice Quentin de La Tour]], French Rococo portraitist, working primarily with pastels (d. [[1788]]) * [[September 7]] – [[John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun]], son of Charles Hope (d. [[1781]]) * [[September 12]] – [[Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester]] (d. [[1776]]) * [[September 20]] – [[Isaac Basire (engraver)|Isaac Basire]], engraver, first in a family line of prolific and well-respected engravers (d. [[1768]]) * [[September 22]] – [[Jacques de Lafontaine de Belcour]], French entrepreneur with business ventures in New France (now Quebec) (d. [[1765]]) * [[September 24]] – [[Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]] (d. [[1763]]) * [[September 26]] – [[William French (priest)|William French]], Anglican priest (d. [[1785]]) * [[September 29]] – [[Johann Friedrich Cartheuser]], German physician and naturalist (d. [[1777]]) === October–December === * [[October 29]] – [[John Byng]], British admiral (d. [[1757]]) * [[November 1]] ** [[Erland Broman]], Swedish official and noble (d. [[1757]]) ** [[Paul Daniel Longolius]], German encyclopedist (d. [[1779]]) * [[November 5]] ** [[Benjamin Goldthwait]], British army officer in King George's War and the French and Indian War (d. [[1761]]) ** [[Samuel Pegge]], English antiquary and clergyman (d. [[1796]]) * [[November 6]] – [[Willem Bentinck van Rhoon]], Dutch nobleman and politician (d. [[1774]]) * [[November 7]] – [[Charles Gautier de Vinfrais]], French officer of the Royal venery (d. [[1797]]) * [[November 11]] – [[Adriaan van Royen]], Dutch botanist (d. [[1779]]) * [[November 13]] – [[Charles Hamilton (MP)|Charles Hamilton]], MP (d. [[1786]]) * [[November 16]] – [[Giacopo Belgrado]] (d. [[1789]]) * [[November 19]] ** [[James Gabriel Montresor]], British military engineer (d. [[1776]]) ** [[Richard Pococke]] (d. [[1765]]) * [[November 28]] – [[Jacob Mossel]] (d. [[1761]]) * [[December 8]] – [[Anton de Haen]], Austrian physician of Dutch ancestry (d. [[1776]]) * [[December 12]] ** [[Peter Kemble]], American politician from the colonial period, President of the New Jersey Provincial Council from 1745 to 1776 (d. [[1789]]) ** [[Sir Edward Knatchbull, 7th Baronet]] (d. [[1789]]) * [[December 14]] – [[Jacob von Eggers]], Military engineer (d. [[1773]]) * [[December 26]] – [[Lord George Beauclerk]], British Army officer (d. [[1768]]) * [[December 29]] – [[Martha Daniell Logan]], American botanist (d. [[1779]]) * [[December 31]] – [[Carl Gotthelf Gerlach]], German organist (d. [[1761]])
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