Editing 1701 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Count Palatine William of Gelnhausen]], Imperial Field Marshal (d. [[1760]])
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Georg Ludwig von Bar]], German (d. [[1767]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Thomas Edwards (silversmith)|Thomas Edwards]], silversmith active in colonial Boston (d. [[1755]])
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[William Lubbock]], British divine (d. [[1754]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Johann Jakob Moser]], German jurist (d. [[1785]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Anne Antoine, Comte d'Aché]], French naval officer who became vice admiral (d. [[1780]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[François Dominique de Barberie de Saint-Contest]], French Foreign Minister (d. [[1754]])
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim]], German historian and theologian (d. [[1790]])
* [[January 28]]
** [[Thomas Amory (tutor)|Thomas Amory]], English dissenting tutor and minister and poet from Taunton (d. [[1774]])
** [[Charles Marie de La Condamine]], French mathematician and geographer (d. [[1774]])
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Johan Agrell]], late German/Swedish baroque composer (d. [[1765]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Christian Ludwig Gersten]], German scientist (d. [[1762]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Johann Baptist Martinelli]], Austrian architect (d. [[1754]])
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Carlo Lodi]], Italian painter of the late-Baroque period in Bologna (d. [[1765]])
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Enrique Flórez]], Spanish historian (d. [[1773]])
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[François-Joseph Hunauld]], French anatomist born in Châteaubriant (d. [[1742]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Thomas Adam]], Church of England clergyman and religious writer (d. [[1784]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Jacek Rybiński]], Cistercian and the last abbot of the [[Oliwa Abbey|Oliwa monastery]] (d. [[1782]])
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Johann Jakob Breitinger]], Swiss philologist and author (d. [[1776]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Lewis Morris (1701–1765)|Lewis Morris]], Welsh hydrographer (d. [[1765]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais]], French jurist on the so-called "Brittany affair" (d. [[1785]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Philip Hawkins (MP)|Philip Hawkins]], MP (d. [[1738]])
* [[March 11]] &ndash; [[Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown]], Irish politician (d. [[1783]])
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[Johann Friedrich Cotta (theologian)|Johann Friedrich Cotta]], German Lutheran theologian (d. [[1779]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Antonio Alcalde Barriga]], Spanish Roman Catholic prelate; member from the Order of Preachers; Bishop of Guadalajara (d. [[1792]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford]] (d. [[1767]])
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Daniel Lorenz Salthenius]], Swedish theologian (d. [[1750]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Naragon |first1=Steve |editor1-last=Klemme |editor1-first=Heiner F. |editor2-last=Kuehn |editor2-first=Manfred |title=The Bloomsbury dictionary of eighteenth-century German philosophers |date=2016 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |location=New York |isbn=9781474256001 |pages=645–6 |chapter=Salthenius, Daniel Lorenz (1701–50) |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YH6fCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA645}}</ref>
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Niclas Sahlgren]], Swedish merchant and philanthropist (d. [[1776]])
* [[March 21]] &ndash; [[Jacques Bridaine]], French Catholic preacher and missionary (d. [[1767]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[John Goffe]], Colonial American soldier (d. [[1786]])