Editing 1721 (section)

== Births ==
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Johann Philipp Baratier]], German scholar (d. [[1740]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Anna Magdalena Godiche]], Danish book printer and publisher (d. [[1781]]) 
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach]], politically active Electress of Bavaria (d. [[1794]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz]], Prussian general (d. [[1773]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Catharina Elisabet Grubb]], Finnish industrialist (d. [[1788]]) 
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[John McKinly]], American physician, President of Delaware (d. [[1796]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Pierrepont, Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull]], English noble (d. [[1788]]) 
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken]] (d. [[1774]])
* [[March 19]] &ndash; [[Tobias Smollett]], Scottish physician and author (d. [[1771]])
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[David Zeisberger]], Moravian missionary (d. [[1808]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[John Hanson]], [[President of the Continental Congress]] of America (d. [[1783]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland]], English military leader (d.  [[1765]])
[[File:Roger Sherman 1721-1793 by Ralph Earl.jpeg|thumb|right|110px|[[Roger Sherman]]]]
* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[Roger Sherman]], signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] (d.  [[1793]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Johann de Kalb]], Bavarian-French military officer who served as a major general in the [[Continental Army]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]] (d. [[1780]])
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[Johann Nikolaus Götz]], German poet (d. [[1781]])
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[John Douglas (Anglican bishop)|John Douglas]], Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. [[1807]])
* [[August 4]] &ndash; [[Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford]], English politician (d. [[1803]])
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol]], British statesman (d. [[1775]])
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Peyton Randolph]], 1st and 3rd [[President of the Continental Congress]] (d. [[1775]])
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Eliphalet Dyer]], American statesman and judge (d. [[1807]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Joseph de Guignes]], French orientalist (d. [[1800]])
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Mark Akenside]], English poet and physician (d. [[1770]])
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres]], Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman (d. [[1824]])
* [[December 6]] 
** [[James Elphinston]], Scottish philologist (d. [[1809]])
** [[Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes]], French statesman (d.  [[1794]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[François Hemsterhuis]], Dutch philosopher (d. [[1790]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Madame de Pompadour]], mistress of King [[Louis XV of France]] (d.  [[1764]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gordon |first1=Alden R. |title=Searching for the Elusive Madame de Pompadour |journal=Eighteenth-Century Studies |date=2003 |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=95 |doi=10.1353/ecs.2003.0062 |jstor=25098031 |s2cid=144477737 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25098031 |issn=0013-2586}}</ref>
* ''Date unknown'' &ndash; [[Im Yunjidang]], Korean scholar, writer and neo-Confucian philosopher (d.  [[1793]])