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== Births == * [[January 2]] – [[Edward Seymour, 9th Duke of Somerset]], English nobleman, son of Edward Seymour, 8th Duke of Somerset and Mary Webb (d. [[1792]]) * [[January 5]] – [[William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington]], English statesman (d. [[1793]]) * [[January 18]] – [[Jean-François-Marie de Surville]], French trader and navigator (d. [[1770]]) * [[January 21]] – [[Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa]], Spanish military officer (d. [[1779]]) * [[January 23]] – [[Benjamin Beddome]], English Baptist minister and hymnist (d. [[1795]]) * [[January 28]] – [[Mustafa III]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (d. [[1773]]) * [[January 29]] – [[Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst]], British soldier and conqueror of Quebec (d. [[1797]]) * [[February 2]] – [[Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon]], Austrian field marshal (d. [[1790]]) * [[February 3]] – [[Nicholas Cooke]], first Governor of Rhode Island (d. [[1782]]) * c. [[February 11]] – [[William Williams Pantycelyn]], Welsh hymn-writer, a key leader of the 18th century Methodist revival (d. [[1791]]) * [[February 17]] – [[Adam Friedrich Oeser]], German etcher (d. [[1799]]) * [[February 19]] – [[David Garrick]], English actor (d. [[1779]]) * [[February 27]] – [[Johann David Michaelis]], German biblical scholar and teacher (d. [[1791]]) * [[April 6]] – [[Luis de Unzaga]], American-Spanish governor (d. [[1793]]) * [[April]] – [[Pieter Barbiers (painter)|Pieter Barbiers]], Dutch artist (d. [[1780]]) * [[April 9]] – [[Georg Matthias Monn]], Austrian composer (d. [[1750]]) * [[April 10]] – [[Isaac de Pinto]], Dutch Jew of Portuguese origin, investor and scholar (d. [[1787]]) * [[May 8]] – [[Charles Guillaume Le Normant d'Étiolles]], French official, husband of Madame de Pompadour (d. [[1799]]) [[File:Kaiserin Maria Theresia (HRR).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Maria Theresa of Austria]]]] * [[May 13]] – [[Maria Theresa of Austria]], Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, consort of the Holy Roman Emperor (d. [[1780]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Maria Theresa {{!}} Biography, Facts, Accomplishments, & Children {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Theresa |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=4 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * [[June 5]] – [[Emanuel Mendes da Costa]], English botanist (d. [[1791]]) * [[June 8]] – [[John Collins (Continental Congress)|John Collins]], Continental Congressman, third Governor of Rhode Island (d. [[1795]]) * [[June 19]] – [[Johann Stamitz]], Czech-born composer (d. [[1757]]) * [[June 20]] – [[Jacques Saly]], French sculptor (d. [[1776]]) * [[June 27]] – [[Louis Guillaume Lemonnier]], French botanist (d. [[1799]]) * [[June 28]] – [[Matthew Stewart (mathematician)|Matthew Stewart]], Scottish mathematician (d. [[1785]]) * [[July 5]] – [[Peter III of Portugal]], consort of Queen [[Maria I of Portugal]] (d. [[1786]]) * [[August]] – [[Sophie de Lafont]], Russian educator (d. [[1797]]) * [[August 13]] – [[Louis François, Prince of Conti]], French nobleman, military leader (d. [[1776]]) * [[August 15]] ** [[Louis Carrogis Carmontelle]], French dramatist (d. [[1806]]) ** [[John Metcalf (civil engineer)|John Metcalf]], "Blind Jack of Knaresborough", English roadbuilder (d. [[1810]]) * [[September 4]] – [[Job Orton]], English dissenting minister (d. [[1783]]) * [[September 7]] ** [[Agui]], Chinese nobleman, general for the Ch'ing dynasty (d. [[1797]]) ** [[Martin Dobrizhoffer]], Austrian Jesuit missionary (d. [[1791]]) * [[September 22]] – [[Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin]], Swedish astronomer (d. [[1783]]) * [[September 24]] – [[Horace Walpole]], English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician (d. [[1797]]) * [[September 28]] – [[William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford]], British diplomat and statesman (d. [[1781]]) * [[October]] – [[James Paine (architect)|James Paine]], English architect (d. [[1789]]) * [[October 5]] – [[Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux]], French mistress of King [[Louis XV of France]] (d. [[1744]]) * [[October 13]] – [[John Armstrong, Sr.|John Armstrong]], American civil engineer, major general in the Revolutionary War (d. [[1795]]) * [[October 30]] – [[Jonathan Hornblower (1717)|Jonathan Hornblower]], English pioneer of steam power (d. [[1780]]) * [[November 13]] – [[Prince George William of Great Britain]], member of the British Royal Family (d. [[1718]]) * [[November 16]] – [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]], French mathematician and encyclopædist (d. [[1783]]) * [[November 17]] – [[Caroline Townshend, 1st Baroness Greenwich]], English peeress (d. [[1794]]) * [[November 23]] – [[Antoine Guenée]], French priest and Christian apologist (d. [[1803]]) * [[November 25]] – [[Alexander Sumarokov]], Russian poet and playwright (d. [[1777]]) [[File:Johann Joachim Winckelmann (Raphael Mengs after 1755).jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]]]] * [[December 9]] – [[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]], German classical scholar and archaeologist (d. [[1768]]) * [[December 16]] – [[Elizabeth Carter]], English writer (d. [[1806]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Carter|title=Elizabeth Carter - British Author|access-date=3 January 2017}}</ref> * [[December 25]] – [[George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield]], British army officer (d. [[1790]]) * [[December 27]] – [[Pope Pius VI]], born Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi, Italian pontiff (d. [[1799]]) * [[December 28]] – [[Johann Heinrich Gottlob Justi]], leading German Kameralist in the 18th century (d. [[1771]]) * [[December 29]] – [[Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes]], French statesman and diplomat (d. [[1785]]) * ''date unknown'' ** [[Giambattista Almici]], Italian jurist (d. [[1793]]) ** [[Claude Humbert Piarron de Chamousset]], French philanthropist (d. [[1773]]) ** [[Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner]], Swiss cartographer and geologist (d. [[1778]]) ** [[Elimelech of Lizhensk]], Polish Orthodox Jewish rabbi, one of the great founding [[rebbe]]s of [[Hasidic Judaism]] (d. [[1787]]) ** [[Henry Middleton]], South Carolina plantation owner, second President of the Continental Congress (d. [[1784]]) **[[Lewis Nicola]], Irish-born officer in the American army during the [[American Revolutionary War]] (d. [[1807]]) ** [[Anne Steele]] ("Theodosia"), English Baptist hymn-writer (d. [[1778]]) ** [[Molla Panah Vagif]], Azerbaijani poet (d. [[1797]])
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