Editing 1728 (section)

== Births ==
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Thomas Warton]], English poet (d. [[1790]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Charles Rainsford]], British general (d. [[1809]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; Emperor [[Peter III of Russia]], husband of [[Catherine the Great]] (d. [[1762]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[John Wood, the Younger]], English architect (d. [[1782]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Anton Raphael Mengs]], German-Bohemian painter (d. [[1779]])
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Joseph Black]], Scottish physicist and chemist (d. [[1799]])
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Anna Jabłonowska]], Polish magnate and politician (d. [[1800]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Johann Heinrich Lambert]], Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer (d. [[1777]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[John Stark]], American Revolutionary War general (d. [[1822]])
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Matthew Boulton]], English manufacturer, lifelong key partner of [[James Watt]] (d. [[1809]])
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Mercy Otis Warren]], American playwright (d. [[1814]])
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Chevalier d'Éon]], French diplomat, spy, soldier and transvestite (d. [[1810]])
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[Caesar Rodney]], American lawyer and signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]] (d. [[1784]])
[[File:Captainjamescookportrait.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[James Cook]]]]
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[James Cook]], British naval commander and explorer (d. [[1779]])
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Oliver Goldsmith]], Irish writer (d. [[1774]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Justus Claproth]], German jurist, inventor of the de-inking process of recycled paper (d. [[1805]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Josefa Ordóñez]], Spanish–Mexican actress, courtesan (est. year of birth)
** [[James Armstrong (Georgia politician)|James Armstrong]], American politician and [[Major (rank)|Major]] of the [[Continental Army]] (d. [[1800]]) (est. year of birth)
* [[Juan Albano Pereira Márquez]] godfather and tutor of [[Bernardo O'Higgins]].