Editing 1706 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]]
** [[Henry Howard, 10th Earl of Suffolk]] (d. [[1745]])
** [[Nils Wallerius]], Swedish physicist (d. [[1764]])
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Johann Caspar Füssli]], Swiss portrait painter and writer (d. [[1782]])
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Johann Heinrich Zedler]], German publisher (d. [[1751]])
* [[January 17]]
** [[Benjamin Franklin]], American inventor and Founding Father (d. [[1790]])
** [[George Michael Moser]], Swiss artist and enameller (d. [[1783]])
** [[Richard Penn Sr.]], proprietary and titular governor of Pennsylvania and the counties of New Castle County (d. [[1771]])
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Frederick Charles Augustus, Count of Lippe]] (d. [[1781]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[John Elder (pastor)|John Elder]], American colonial pastor (d. [[1792]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Shubal Stearns]], American colonial evangelist and preacher during the Great Awakening (d. [[1771]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Claude-Godefroy Coquart]], Jesuit priest who probably arrived in Quebec in 1739 (d. [[1765]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Luis de Córdova y Córdova]], Spanish admiral (d. [[1796]])
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Nils Rosén von Rosenstein]], Swedish physician (d. [[1773]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Johann Joseph Christian]], German Baroque sculptor and woodcarver (d. [[1777]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Robert Hampden-Trevor, 1st Viscount Hampden]], British diplomat at The Hague and then joint Postmaster General (d. [[1783]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[John Hornyold]], English Catholic bishop (d. [[1778]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Phineas Stevens]], distinguished officer noted for his defense of the Fort at Number 4 during a siege in April 1747 (d. [[1756]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Jan Antonín Vocásek]], Czech Baroque painter (d. [[1757]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Philippe-François Bart]], French naval officer who was Governor of Saint-Domingue during the Seven Years' War (d. [[1784]])
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Sébastien Bigot de Morogues]], French soldier, a sailor and military naval tactician (d. [[1781]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Lauritz de Thurah]], Danish architect and architectural writer (d. [[1759]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; Sir [[George Pocock]], British admiral (d. [[1792]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Johann Leonhard Dober]], one of the two first missionaries of the Moravian Brethren in the West Indies in 1732 (d. [[1766]])
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[Johan Pasch]], Swedish painter (d. [[1769]])
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Johann Christoph Heilbronner]], German mathematical historian (d. [[1745]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten]], German Protestant theologian (d. [[1757]])
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Anna Maria Barbara Abesch]], Swiss reverse glass painter and the daughter of Johann Peter Abesch (d. [[1773]])
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[Mather Byles]], American clergyman active in British North America (d. [[1788]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Andrew Oliver]], merchant and public official in the province of Massachusetts Bay (d. [[1774]])
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Tommaso Struzzieri]], Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Todi (1775–1780) (d. [[1780]])