Editing 1719 (section)

=== January ===
* [[January 1]] – [[Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville]], art historian and historian of ideas (d. [[1805]])
* [[January 2]]
** [[Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat]], French shipbuilder and merchant (d. [[1797]])
** [[Friedrich Christoph von Saldern]], German general (d. [[1785]])
* [[January 3]]
** [[Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal]], Catholic archbishop (d. [[1802]])
** [[Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh]], Earl in the Peerage of England (d. [[1800]])
** [[Francisco José Freire]], Portuguese historian and philologist (d. [[1773]])
* [[January 6]]
** [[Ivan Ivanovich Belsky]], Russian painter (d. [[1799]])
** [[Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort]], French painter (d. [[1775]])
** [[William Hammond (hymnist)|William Hammond]], British hymnist (d. [[1783]])
** [[Ignazio Marabitti]], Italian artist (d. [[1797]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Maria Dorothea Wagner]], German painter (d. [[1792]])
* [[January 14]] – [[Daniel Nettelbladt]], German jurist and philosopher (d. [[1791]])
* [[January 15]] – [[William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam]], British peer (d. [[1756]])
* [[January 17]]
** [[Maria van Antwerpen]], soldier (d. [[1781]])
** [[Samuel Enderby]], English [[whale oil]] merchant who sponsored Arctic exploration (d. [[1797]])
** [[Rajmundo Kunić]], Croatian writer (d. [[1794]])
** [[Johann Elias Schlegel]], German critic and poet (d. [[1749]])
** [[William Vernon]], American merchant (d. [[1806]])
* [[January 22]]
** [[Benjamin Hinman]], surveyor, soldier, legislator (d. [[1810]])
** [[Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge]], British Earl (d. [[1769]])
* [[January 23]] – [[John Landen]], English mathematician (d. [[1790]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia]] (d. [[1765]])
* [[January 30]] – [[Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer]], German writer (d. [[1783]])