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== Births == === January === * [[January 1]] – [[Joshua Loring]], colonial American captain in British service (d. [[1781]]), Gaspar de Portola, Spanish California Expedition (d.1786) * [[January 4]] – [[Aaron Burr Sr.]], President of Princeton University (d. [[1757]]) * [[January 11]] – [[Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Normanby]], English nobleman (d. [[1735]]) * [[January 12]] – [[Antonio de Ulloa]], Spanish general and scientist (d. [[1795]]) * [[January 15]] ** [[Philip Livingston]], American politician (d. [[1778]]) ** [[Pierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésaguet]], French scientist (d. [[1796]]) [[File:Charles III of Spain high resolution.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Charles III of Spain]]]] * [[January 20]] ** King [[Charles III of Spain]] (d. [[1788]]) ** [[Jean-Jacques Barthélemy]], French writer and numismatist (d. [[1795]]) ** [[Franz Wilhelm Rabaliatti]], German architect (d. [[1782]]) * [[January 26]] – [[George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville]], British Army general (d. [[1785]]) * [[January 30]] – [[Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz]], Swedish architect and civil servant (d. [[1796]]) === February === * [[February 2]] – [[David Graeme (1716–1797)|David Graeme]], British Army general (d. [[1797]]) * [[February 4]] – [[José Solís Folch de Cardona]], Spanish colonial governor (d. [[1770]]) * [[February 8]] – [[Pasquale Cafaro]], Italian composer (d. [[1787]]) * [[February 9]] – [[Mary Palmer]], English writer (d. [[1794]]) * [[February 23]] – [[Antoine-Joseph Pernety]], French writer (d. [[1796]]) === March === * [[March 6]] – [[Pehr Kalm]], Finnish scientist (d. [[1779]]) * [[March 13]] – [[Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia]] (d. [[1801]]) * [[March 18]] – [[Friedrich Wilhelm, Graf von Wylich und Lottum]], Prussian army officer (d. [[1774]]) * [[March 19]] – [[Guillaume Coustou the Younger]], French artist (d. [[1777]]) * [[March 21]] – [[Josef Seger]], Czech composer and organist (d. [[1782]]) === April === * [[April 1]] – [[Morgan Rhys]], Welsh hymn-writer (d. [[1779]]) * [[April 5]] – [[Jeremiah Theus]], American artist (d. [[1774]]) * [[April 12]] – [[Felice Giardini]], Italian composer, violinist (d. [[1796]]) * [[April 24]] – [[Johann Georg Weishaupt]], German lawyer (d. [[1753]]) === May === * [[May 2]] – [[Infante Carlos of Portugal]], Portuguese ''infante'' (prince) (d. [[1736]]) * [[May 8]] – [[James Wright (governor)|James Wright]], Governor of Georgia (d. [[1785]]) * [[May 20]] – [[Friedrich Samuel Bock]], German philosopher and theologian (d. [[1785]]) * [[May 24]] – [[Constantine, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg]] (d. [[1778]]) * [[May 28]] – [[Sir Robert Burdett, 4th Baronet]], British politician and member of the English gentry (d. [[1797]]) * [[May 29]] – [[Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton]], French scientist (d. [[1799]]) === June === * [[June 10]] – [[Carl Gustaf Ekeberg]], Swedish explorer (d. [[1784]]) * [[June 18]] ** [[Charles Edzard, Prince of East Frisia]] (d. [[1744]]) ** [[Joseph-Marie Vien]], French painter (d. [[1809]]) * [[June 23]] – [[Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley]] (d. [[1789]]) * [[June 25]] – [[Johann Baptist Babel]], Swiss sculptor (d. [[1799]]) * [[June 26]] – [[Charles-Nicolas d'Oultremont]], Roman Catholic bishop (d. [[1771]]) * [[June 27]] – [[Louise Diane d'Orléans]], last child of [[Philippe II, Duke of Orleans]] (d. [[1736]]) === July === * [[July 3]] – [[Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch]], German Prince-Bishop (d. [[1795]]) * [[July 14]] – [[Michael Schlatter]], American clergyman (d. [[1790]]) * [[July 17]] – [[William Errington (priest)|William Errington]], English priest (d. [[1768]]) * [[July 22]] – [[Jan Jakub Zamoyski]], Polish noble (d. [[1790]]) === August === * [[August 2]] – [[Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Baron Edgcumbe]], British baron, politician (d. [[1761]]) * [[August 4]] – [[Sir John Dashwood-King, 3rd Baronet]], English country gentleman (d. [[1793]]) * [[August 8]] ** [[Andrea Spagni]], Italian theologian (d. [[1788]]) ** [[Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (1716–1777)|Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley]], British politician (d. [[1777]]) * [[August 15]] – [[Karl Joseph von Firmian]], Austrian diplomat (d. [[1782]]) * [[August 18]] – [[Johan Maurits Mohr]], Dutch-German pastor and astronomer (d. [[1775]]) [[File:Lancelot ('Capability') Brown by Nathaniel Dance, (later Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Bt) cropped.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Capability Brown|Lancelot Brown]]]] * [[August 30]] – [[Capability Brown]], English landscape architect (d. [[1783]]) === September === * [[September 2]] – [[Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu]], French engraver (d. [[1791]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Charles Bennet, 3rd Earl of Tankerville]], British Earl (d. [[1767]]) * [[September 16]] – [[Angelo Maria Amorevoli]], Italian musician (d. [[1798]]) * [[September 19]] – [[Jan Jacob Schultens]], Dutch linguist (d. [[1788]]) * [[October 1]] – [[Benjamin Waller]], American politician (d. [[1786]]) * [[October 3]] – [[Giovanni Battista Beccaria]], Italian physicist (d. [[1781]]) * [[October 4]] – [[James Lind]], Scottish physician (d. [[1794]]) * [[October 5]] – [[Alexei Senyavin]], Russian admiral (d. [[1797]]) * [[October 6]] – [[George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax]], British statesman (d. [[1771]]) * [[October 8]] – [[Gaspar of Braganza, Archbishop of Braga]], Portuguese clergyman (d. [[1780]]) * [[October 16]] – [[Lord Augustus FitzRoy]], Royal Navy officer during the War of the Austrian Succession (d. [[1741]]) * [[October 26]] – [[Charles Christian Erdmann, Duke of Württemberg-Oels]] (d. [[1792]]) === November === * [[November 1]] ** [[William Foye]], Canadian politician (d. [[1771]]) ** [[Joseph Dinouart]], French preacher (d. [[1786]]) * [[November 4]] – [[Wilhelm von Knyphausen]], Prussian soldier (d. [[1800]]) * [[November 16]] – [[John Monro (physician)|John Monro]], British physician of Bethlem Hospital (d. [[1791]]) * [[November 26]] – [[Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1716–1776)|Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland]], British duchess; Lady of the Bedchamber (d. [[1776]]) === December === * [[December 1]] – [[Étienne Maurice Falconet]], French artist (d. [[1791]]) * [[December 7]] – [[Henry Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode]], German politician, canon, provost and author of numerous hymns (d. [[1778]]) * [[December 12]] – [[Leopoldine Marie of Anhalt-Dessau]], Margravine of Brandenburg-Schwedt (d. [[1782]]) * [[December 16]] ** [[Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli]], Swiss agronomist (d. [[1780]]) ** [[Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini]], French diplomat and writer (d. [[1798]]) * [[December 23]] – [[Johann Heinrich Rolle]], German baroque composer (d. [[1785]]) * [[December 25]] – [[Johann Jakob Reiske]], German scholar (d. [[1774]]) * [[December 26]] ** [[Thomas Gray]], English poet, historian (d. [[1771]]) ** [[Jean François de Saint-Lambert]], French poet, philosopher and military officer (d. [[1803]]) * [[December 27]] – [[Leonardo Ximenes]], Italian mathematician (d. [[1786]]) === Approximate date === * [[Arnarsaq]], Inuit translator, interpreter and missionary (d. after [[1771]]) * [[Catherine Théot]], French visionary (d. [[1794]]) * [[Anna Margareta Salmelin]], Finnish prisoner of war (d. [[1789]]) === Date unknown === * [[Josip Kazimir Drašković]], Croatian General in the [[Seven Years' War]] (1756–1763) (d. [[1765]])
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