Year (''' MDCCXX ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Friday
"Calendar in year 1720 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), webpage:
Julian-1720
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919 ).
of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar .
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- January 4 - Johann Friedrich Agricola , German composer (died 1774 )
- January 13 - Richard Hurd , English bishop and writer (died 1808 )
- January 27 - Samuel Foote , English dramatist and actor (died 1777 )
- January 30 - Charles De Geer , Swedish industrialist and entomologist (died 1778 )
- February 8 - Emperor Sakuramachi Of Japan (died 1750 )
- March 9 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl Of Hardwicke , English politician (died 1790 )
- March 13 - Charles Bonnet , Swiss naturalist and writer (died 1793 )
- March 22 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin , French architect (died 1799 )
- April 23 - Vilna Gaon , Lithuanian rabbi (died 1797 )
- May 11 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr Von Münchhausen , German officer and adventurer (died 1797 )
- May 15 - Maximilian Hell , Slovakian astronomer (died 1792 )
- July 18 - Gilbert White , English naturalist and cleric (died 1793 )
- August 8 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin , Swedish politician (died 1796 )
- August 12 - Konrad Ekhof , German actor (died 1778 )
- August 18 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers , English murderer (died 1760 )
- August 30 - Samuel Whitbread , English brewer and politician (died 1796 )
- October 3 - Johann Peter Uz , German poet (died 1796 )
- October 4 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi , Italian artist (died 1778 )
- October 8 - Jonathan Mayhew , American minister and patriot (died 1766 )
- October 19 - John Woolman , American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (died 1772 )
- November 1 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet De La Motte , French admiral (died 1791 )
- November 16 - Carlo Antonio Campioni , French-born composer (died 1788 )
- December 14 - Justus Möser , German statesman (died 1794 )
- December 26 - Gian Francesco Albani , Italian Catholic cardinal (died 1803 )
- December 31 - Charles Edward Stuart , pretender to the British throne (died 1788 )
: ''See also .''
- January - Francis Daniel Pastorius , founder of Germanstown, Pennsylvania (born 1651 )
- January 31 - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl Of Stamford , English privy councillor (born c. 1645 )
- February 27 - Samuel Parris , English-born Puritan minister (born 1653 )
- April 2 - Joseph Dudley , colonial Governor of Massachusetts (born 1647 )
- April 21 - Antoine Hamilton , French writer (born 1646 )
- June 27 - Guillaume Amfrye De Chaulieu , French poet (born 1639 )
- August 3
- --- Anthonie Heinsius , Dutch statesman (born 1641 )
- --- Anne Finch, Countess Of Winchilsea , English poet (born 1661 )
- August 9 - Simon Ockley , English orientalist (born 1678 )
- August 17 - Anne Lefèvre , French scholar (born 1654 )
- September 3 - Henri De Massue, Marquis De Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway , French soldier and diplomat (born 1648 )
- October 10 - Antoine Coysevox , French sculptor (born 1640 )
- November 17 - Calico Jack , English pirate
- November 20 - Peder Tordenskjold , Norwegian naval hero (born 1691 )
: ''See also .''
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