Editing 1724 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Louise of Great Britain, Queen of Denmark and Norway.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Louise of Great Britain]]]]
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Frances Brooke]], English writer (d. [[1789]])
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Christopher Gadsden]], American statesman (d. [[1805]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend]], British field marshal (d. [[1807]])
* [[February 29]] &ndash; [[Eva Marie Veigel]], Austrian-born English ballet dancer, known as ''La Violette'' (d. [[1822]])
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Manuel do Cenáculo]], Portuguese prelate and antiquarian (d. [[1814]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arqnet.pt/dicionario/vilasbcenaculo.html |title=Vilas Boas (D. frei Manuel do Cenáculo) |lang=pt |last=Torres |first=João Romano |website=Portugal - Dicionário Histórico, Corográfico, Heráldico, Biográfico, Bibliográfico, Numismático e Artístico, Volume VII |access-date=15 November 2020 }}</ref>
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Henry Laurens]], political leader during the [[American Revolutionary War]], father of [[John Laurens]] (d. [[1792]]) 
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Jane Colden]], American botanist (d. [[1766]]) 
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Lyman Hall]], American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. [[1790]])
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Immanuel Kant]], German philosopher (d. [[1804]])
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser]], Alsatian-born Austrian general (d. [[1797]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol]], British admiral, politician (d. [[1779]])
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[John Smeaton]], English civil engineer (d. [[1792]])
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach]], German aristocrat (d. [[1794]])
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock]], German poet (d. [[1803]])
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[Eva Ekeblad]], Swedish scientist (d. [[1786]])
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Alvise Foscari]], Venetian admiral (d. [[1790]])<ref>{{DBI | last = Gullino | first = Giuseppe | title = FOSCARI, Alvise | volume = 49 | url = https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alvise-foscari_res-5c3d91a5-87ed-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/}}</ref>
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Abraham Yates]], American Continental Congressman (d. [[1796]])
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[George Stubbs]], English painter (d. [[1806]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[John Joachim Zubly]], Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. [[1781]])
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester]], British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. [[1808]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood]], British admiral (d. [[1816]])
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Franz Aepinus]], German scientist (d. [[1802]])
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Louise of Great Britain]], queen of [[Frederick V of Denmark]] (d. [[1751]])
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Johann Conrad Amman (1724–1811)|Johann Conrad Ammann]], Swiss physician,  naturalist (d. [[1811]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[John Michell]], English scientist and geologist (d. [[1793]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Christoph Franz von Buseck]], Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (d. [[1805]])
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée]], French painter (d. [[1805]])
* ''Date unknown''
** [[Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon]], French mathematician (d. [[1767]])
** [[James MacLaine]], Irish highwayman (d. [[1750]])