Editing 1729 (section)

== Births ==
* [[January 12]]
** [[Lazzaro Spallanzani]], Italian biologist (d. [[1799]])
** [[Edmund Burke]], Irish statesman and philosopher (d. [[1797]])
[[File:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.PNG|thumb|right|110px|[[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]]]]
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]], German author and philosopher (d. [[1781]]) 
[[File:Chydenius.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Anders Chydenius]]]]
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Anders Chydenius]], Finnish economist, liberal politician and Lutheran priest (d. [[1803]])<ref>{{cite web|last=Pelo|first=June|title=Anders Chydenius|access-date=2020-12-09|url=http://sydaby.eget.net/swe/jp_chydenius.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030084557/http://sydaby.eget.net/swe/jp_chydenius.htm|archive-date=2007-10-30|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Profile portrait of Catherine II by Fedor Rokotov (1763, Tretyakov gallery).jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Catherine the Great|Catherine II]] of Russia]]
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[Catherine the Great]], born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, empress regnant of Russia (d. [[1796]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Catherine the Great {{!}} Biography, Facts, & Accomplishments |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-the-Great |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[George Leonard (Congressman)|George Leonard]], American lawyer, jurist and politician (d. [[1819]])
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe]], British general (d. [[1814]])
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Moses Mendelssohn]], German-Jewish philosopher (d. [[1786]])
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Mikiel'Ang Grima]], [[Maltese people|Maltese]] [[Surgery|surgeon]] (d. [[1798]])
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Sarah Crosby]], English [[Methodism|Methodist]] preacher, the first female (d. 1804)
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain]], Queen consort of Sardinia (d. [[1785]])
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Josiah Bartlett]], second signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] (d. [[1795]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Louis Antoine de Bougainville]], French navigator and military commander (d. [[1811]])
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[Helena Dorothea von Schönberg]], German industrialist (d. [[1799]])
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Alexander Suvorov]], Russian general (d. [[1800]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[David Barclay of Youngsbury]], English merchant, businessman and banker (d. [[1809]])
** [[Samuel Barrington]], British admiral (d. [[1800]])
** [[Mary Woffington]], Irish socialite (d. [[1811]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Highfill |first1=Philip H. |last2=Burnim |first2=Kalman A. |last3=Langhans |first3=Edward A. |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 |date=1993 |publisher=[[Southern Illinois University Press]] |location=Carbondale |isbn=978-0-8093-1803-2 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026964307&seq=237 |language=en |volume=16 |page=225}}</ref>