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=== April–June ===
* [[April 1]] – [[Steven Hoogendijk]], Rotterdam watch and instrument maker and physicist (d. [[1788]])
* [[April 2]] – [[Henry Edgar]], Scottish Episcopal minister, Bishop of Fife from 1762 to 1765 (d. [[1765]])
* [[April 5]] – [[Anne Hamilton, 2nd Countess of Ruglen]], Scottish noblewoman (d. [[1748]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Daniel Gerdes]], German Calvinist theologian and historian (d. [[1765]])
* [[April 28]] – [[John Phillipson]], British Navy administrator, commissioner, MP for over 20 years (d. [[1756]])
* [[May 1]] – [[Francesco Robba]], Italian sculptor (d. [[1757]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Henry Baker (naturalist)|Henry Baker]], British naturalist (d. [[1774]])
* [[May 10]]
** [[Cuthbert Ellison (British Army officer)|Cuthbert Ellison]], British Army officer and MP for Shaftesbury (d. [[1785]])
** [[François Parfaict]], 18th-century French theatre historian (d. [[1753]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Pierre Contant d'Ivry]], French architect and designer (d. [[1777]])
* [[May 17]]
** [[Gio Nicola Buhagiar]], Maltese painter (d. [[1752]])
** [[Sir John Major, 1st Baronet]], British merchant (d. [[1781]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Lord William Beauclerk]], British army officer and politician (d. [[1733]])
* [[May 24]] – [[John, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen]] (d. [[1780]])
* [[June 2]] – [[Henry Miles]], English Dissenting minister, scientific writer, Fellow of the Royal Society (d. [[1763]])
* [[June 15]] – [[George Browne (soldier)|George Browne]], Irish soldier of fortune in Russian service (d. [[1792]])
* [[June 19]]
** [[Aoki Konyō]], Confucian scholar (d. [[1769]])
** [[Weliwita Sri Saranankara Thero]], Last Sangharaja of Sri Lanka (d. [[1778]])
* [[June 22]] – [[Charles-Hugues Le Febvre de Saint-Marc]], 18th-century French playwright and homme de lettres (d. [[1769]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Lord Nassau Powlett]], English army officer and MP (d. [[1741]])