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| align="center" colspan=2 | ''' 1700s 1710s - 1720s - 1730s 1740s 1750s
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Events
February
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
Births
- January 12 - Samuel Langdon , American President of Harvard University (d. 1797 )
- February 15 - John Witherspoon , American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1794 )
- February 17 - Tobias Mayer , German astronomer (d. 1761 )
- February 21 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil , French historian (d. 1808 )
- February 23 - Richard Price , Welsh philosopher (d. 1791 )
- February 24 - John Burgoyne , British general (d. 1792 )
- March 22 - Charles Carroll , American lawyer and Continental Congressman (d. 1783 )
- March 23 - Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar , Iranian king (d. 1778 )
- March 31 - King Frederick V Of Denmark (d. 1766 )
- April 20 - Cornelius Harnett , American Continental Congressman (d. 1781 )
- April 30 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson , French naturalist (d. 1806 )
- June 3 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli , Italian-born physician and naturalist (d. 1788 )
- June 5 - (baptised) Adam Smith , Scottish economist and philosopher (d. 1790 )
- June 11 - Johann Georg Palitzsch , German astronomer (d. 1788 )
- June 20 - Adam Ferguson , Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1816 )
- June 20 - Theophilus Lindsey , English theologian (d. 1808 )
- July 1 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde De Campomanes , Spanish statesman and writer (d. 1802 )
- July 10 - William Blackstone , English jurist (d. 1780 )
- July 11 - Jean-François Marmontel , French historian and writer (d. 1799 )
- July 16 - Sir Joshua Reynolds , English painter (d. 1792 )
- September 11 - Johann Bernhard Basedow , German educational reformer (d. 1790 )
- October 4 - Nikolaus Poda Von Neuhaus , German entomologist (d. 1798 )
- November 8 - John Byron , English admiral (d. 1786 )
- November 30 - William Livingston , American politician and journalist (d. 1790 )
- December 22 - Karl Friedrich Abel , German composer (d. 1787 )
- December 26 - Friedrich Melchior, Baron Von Grimm , German writer (d. 1807 )
Deaths
- February 25 - Sir Christopher Wren , English architect, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1632 )
- February 26 - Thomas D'Urfey , English writer (b. 1653 )
- March 15 - Johann Christian Günther , German poet (b. 1695 )
- March 31 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl Of Clarendon , British Governor of New York and New Jersey (b. 1661 )
- April 11 - John Robinson , English diplomat (b. 1650 )
- May 11 - Jean Galbert De Campistron , French dramatist (b. 1656 )
- July 14 - Claude Fleury , French historian (b. 1640 )
- July 26 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke Of Ancaster And Kesteven , English statesman (b. 1660 )
- August 10 - Guillaume Dubois , French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656 )
- August 17 - Joseph Bingham , English scholar (b. 1668 )
- August 23 - Increase Mather , American Puritan minister (b. 1639 )
- August 26 - Anton Van Leeuwenhoek , Dutch scientist (b. 1632 )
- October 10 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper , Lord Chancellor Of England
- October 19 - Godfrey Kneller , German-born artist (b. 1646 )
- October 31 - Cosimo III De' Medici, Grand Duke Of Tuscany (b. 1642 )
- November 19 - Antoine Nompar De Caumont , French courtier and statesman (b. 1632 )
- December 1 - Susanna Centlivre , English dramatist and actress
- December 2 - Philip II, Duke Of Orléans , regent of France (b. 1674 )
- December 7 - Jan Santini Aichel , Czech architect (b. 1677 )
- December 20 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus , German physician and botanist (b. 1652 )
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