Year (''' MDCCXXII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Monday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- June 2 - Wapping, a male negro slave owned by a Mr. Heale, was hanged for murder in the colony of Virginia .
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- January 3 - Fredric Hasselquist , Swedish naturalist (died 1752 )
- January 12 - Nicolas Luckner , Marshal of France (died 1794 )
- January 26 - Alexander Carlyle , Scottish church leader (died 1805 )
- February 19 - Tiphaigne De La Roche , French author (died 1774 )
- April - Joseph Warton , English poet and critic (died 1800 )
- April 11 - Christopher Smart , English poet (died 1771 )
- April 12 - Pietro Nardini , Italian composer (died 1793 )
- May 11 - Petrus Camper , Dutch anatomist (died 1798 )
- May 29 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke Of Leinster , Irish politician (died 1773 )
- July 16 - Joseph Wilton , English sculptor (died 1803 )
- August 9 - Augustus William, Prince Of Prussia (died 1758 )
- August 11 - Richard Brocklesby , English physician (died 1797 )
- September 5 - Frederick Christian, Elector Of Saxony (died 1763 )
- September 16 - Gabriel Christie , British general (died 1799 )
- September 22 - John Home , Scottish dramatist (died 1808 )
- September 27 - Samuel Adams , American revolutionary leader (died 1803 )
- October 2 - Leopold Widhalm , Austrian luthier (died 1776 )
- November 5 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron , English dueler (died 1798 )
- November 19 - Leopold Auenbrugger , Austrian physician (died 1809 )
- November 19 - Benjamin Chew , Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (died 1810 )
- November 30 - Theodore Gardelle , Swiss painter and enameler (died 1761 )
- December 30 - Charles Yorke , Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (died 1770 )
- ''date unknown'' - Flora MacDonald , Scottish heroine (died 1790 )
- ''probable'' - Hyder Ali , Indian general and Sultan of Mysore (died 1782 )
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- January 21 - Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke Of Bolton , English supporter of William III Of England (born 1661 )
- February 10 - Bartholomew Roberts , English pirate (born 1682 )
- March 11 - John Toland , Irish philosopher (born 1670 )
- April 13 - Charles Leslie , Irish Anglican theologian (born 1650 )
- April 21 - Robert Beverley, Jr. , historian of Colonial Virginia (born 1673 )
- May 20 - Sébastien Vaillant , French botanist (born 1669 )
- June 5 - Johann Kuhnau , German composer (born 1660 )
- June 16 - John Churchill, 1st Duke Of Marlborough , English general (born 1650 )
- September 18 - André Dacier , French classical scholar (born 1651 )
- November 20 - Johann Adam Reinken , German organist (born 1623 )
- December 20 - Kangxi Emperor Of China (born 1654 )
- December 23 - Pierre Varignon , French mathematician (born 1654 )
: ''See also .''
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