Editing 1730 (section)

== Births ==
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Velu Nachiyar]], queen regnant of [[Sivaganga]] (d. [[1796]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/remembering-queen-velu-nachiyar-sivagangai-first-queen-fight-british-55163|title=Remembering Queen Velu Nachiyar of Sivagangai, the first queen to fight the British|date=3 Jan 2017|website=[[thenewsminute.com]]|access-date=13 Sep 2024}}</ref>
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil]], last prime minister of the [[France|French]] monarchy (d. [[1807]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12561986t|title=Breteuil, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier (1730-1807)|website=[[Bnf.fr]]|language=fr|access-date=15 Sep 2024}}</ref>
* [[April 1]] – [[Salomon Gessner]], Swiss painter and newspaper publisher (d. [[1788]])
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Henry Clinton (British Army officer, born 1730)|Henry Clinton]], British general (d. [[1795]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[John Moore (archbishop)|John Moore]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (d. [[1805]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham]], [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]] (d. [[1782]])<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/charles-watson-wentworth-2nd-marquess-of-rockingham |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=1 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Maria Angela Ardinghelli]], [[Italian people|Italian]] scientific [[translator]] (d. [[1825]])
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Motoori Norinaga]], Japanese philologist, scholar of the [[kokugaku]] school (d. [[1801]])
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Willermoz]], French Freemason (d. [[1824]])
* [[July 12]]
** [[Anna Barbara Reinhart]], Swiss mathematician (d. [[1796]])
** [[Josiah Wedgwood]], English pottery manufacturer and abolitionist (d. [[1795]])
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Charles Messier]], French astronomer (d. [[1817]])
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol]], English Anglican prelate (d. [[1803]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Johann Georg Hamann]], German philosopher (d. [[1788]])
* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[Elisabetta de Gambarini]], English composer (d. [[1765]]) 
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben]], Prussian army officer (d. [[1794]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[William Moultrie]], American general (d. [[1805]])
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[James Bruce]], Scottish explorer (d. [[1794]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Filippo Mazzei]], Italian physician, friend of [[Thomas Jefferson]] (d. [[1816]])
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[William Hamilton (diplomat)|William Hamilton]], British diplomat, antiquary (d. [[1803]])[[File:Sirhenryclinton2.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Henry Clinton (British Army officer, born 1730)|Henry Clinton]]]]
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** [[Jacob Alyashar]], Talmudist and emissary (d. c. [[1790]])<ref>{{Cite Tidhar|11|3834|הרב יעקב אלישר|title=Rabbi Jacob Alyashar}}</ref>
** [[John Cook (governor)|John Cook]], American farmer, [[Governor of Delaware|President of Delaware]] (d. [[1789]])
** [[Anne Rossignol]], African slave trader (d. [[1810]])
** [[John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore]], Scottish peer and colonial governor in the Americas (d. [[1809]])
** [[White Eyes]], Indigenous American (Lenape) leader (d. [[1778]])