Year (''' MDCCXVI ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 12 - Antonio De Ulloa , Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (died 1795 )
- January 15 - Philip Livingston , American signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1778 )
- January 20
- --- Jean-Jacques Barthélemy , French writer and numismatist (died 1795 )
- ---King Charles III Of Spain (died 1788 )
- January 26 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville , British soldier and politician (died 1785 )
- March 6 - Pehr Kalm , Finnish explorer and naturalist (died 1779 )
- May 29 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton , French naturalist (died 1800 )
- June 18 - Joseph-Marie Vien , French painter (died 1809 )
- June 23 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley , English politician (died 1789 )
- October 3 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria , Italian physicist (died 1781 )
- October 6 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl Of Halifax , English statesman (died 1771 )
- November 4 - Wilhelm Von Knyphausen , Hessian Lieutenant-General (died 1800 )
- December 16 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc De Nivernais , French diplomat and writer (died 1798 )
- December 25 - Johann Jacob Reiske , German scholar and physician (died 1774 )
- December 26 - Thomas Gray , English writer (died 1771 )
- December 26 - Jean François De Saint-Lambert , French poet (died 1803 )
: ''See also .''
- January 1 - William Wycherley , English playwright (born c. 1640 )
- April 14 - Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl Of Torrington , British admiral (born c. 1648 )
- April 26 - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers , Lord Chancellor of England (born 1651 )
- April 28 - Saint Louis De Montfort . author, True Devotion to Mary
- June 2 - Ogata Korin , Japanese painter (born c. 1657 )
- June 5 - Roger Cotes , English mathematician and philosopher (born 1682 )
- June 8 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (born 1658 )
- June 9 -- Banda Bahadur , Sikh military commander (executed) (born 1670 )
- June 28 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke Of Northumberland , English general (born 1665 )
- July 8 - Robert South , English churchman (born 1634 )
- October 28 - Stephen Fox , English politician (born 1627 )
- November 2 - Engelbert Kaempfer , German traveler and physician (born 1651 )
- November 14 - Gottfried Leibniz , German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician (born 1646 )
- December 13 - Charles De La Fosse , French painter (born 1640 )
: ''See also .''
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