Editing 1702 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Nabeshima Naotsune]], Japanese daimyō (d. [[1749]])
* [[January 6]]
** [[Johann Adam von Ickstatt]], German educator and director of the University of Ingolstadt (d. [[1776]])
** [[José de Nebra]], Spanish composer (d. [[1768]])
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Johannes Zick]], German fresco painter (d. [[1762]])
* [[January 12]]
** [[Jacques Aved]], French painter and Rococo portraitist (d. [[1766]])
** [[Józef Andrzej Załuski]], Polish Catholic priest (d. [[1774]])
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally]], French general of Irish Jacobite ancestry (d. [[1766]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Emperor Nakamikado]], of Japan (d. [[1737]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Sava II Petrović-Njegoš]], [[Metropolitan of Cetinje]] (d. [[1782]])
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Frederica Henriette of Anhalt-Bernburg]], member of the House of Ascania by birth and Princess of Anhalt-Köthen by marriage (d. [[1723]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Johann Caspar Scheuchzer]], Swiss naturalist (d. [[1729]])
* [[January 31]] &ndash; [[Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton]], English cricketer (d. [[1747]])
* [[February 3]]
** [[Michael Adelbulner]], German mathematician (d. [[1779]])
** [[Giovanni Battista Vaccarini]], Italian architect (d. [[1768]])
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Carmine Pellerano]], Italian Catholic prelate, member of the Knights Hospitaller (d. [[1783]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Carl August Thielo]], Danish composer (d. [[1763]])
* [[February 10]]
** [[Jean-Pierre Guignon]], Franco-Italian composer and violinist (d. [[1774]])
** [[Carlo Marchionni]], Italian architect (d. [[1786]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Robert Hale (doctor)|Robert Hale]], Massachusetts physician, soldier (d. [[1767]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Rasmus Paludan (bishop)|Rasmus Paludan]], Norwegian theologian and priest (d. [[1759]])
* [[February 27]]
** [[Enrichetta d'Este]], Duchess of Parma (d. [[1777]])
** [[Johann Valentin Görner]], German composer (d. [[1762]])
* [[March 2]]
** [[Henrietta Maria of Brandenburg-Schwedt]], granddaughter of the "Great Elector" Frederick William (d. [[1782]])
** [[Charles Stourton, 15th Baron Stourton]], son of Charles Stourton (1669–1739) (d. [[1753]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Jack Sheppard]], British burglar and escaper (d. [[1724]])
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Burkat Shudi]], English harpsichord maker of Swiss origin (d. [[1773]])
* [[March 19]] &ndash; [[Thomas Penn]], son of American colonial leader William Penn (d. [[1775]])
* [[March 21]] &ndash; [[Bento de Moura Portugal]] (d. [[1766]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Matthias de Visch]], Flemish painter of history paintings and portraits (d. [[1765]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Pieter Teyler van der Hulst]], wealthy Dutch Mennonite merchant and banker (d. [[1778]])
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Johann Ernst Eberlin]], German composer and organist (d. [[1762]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Ignacio de Luzán]], Spanish critic and poet (d. [[1754]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Cesare Sportelli]], Italian Roman Catholic Redemptorist lawyer (d. [[1750]])
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Barthélemy-Christophe Fagan]], French playwright (d. [[1755]])