Year (''' MDCCXXVI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- January 14 - Jacques-Donatien Le Ray , French supporter of the American Revolution (d. 1803 )
- March 8 - Richard Howe , British admiral (d. 1799 )
- April 5 - Benjamin Harrison V , signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1791 )
- April 12 - Charles Burney , English music historian (d. 1814 )
- April 20 - Joseph De Ferraris , Austrian Cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands (d. 1814 )
- May 12 - Alexander Hood , British naval officer (d. 1814 )
- June 3 - James Hutton , Scottish geologist (d. 1797 )
- June 14 - Thomas Pennant , Welsh naturalist (d. 1798 )
- July 30 - William Jones (ecclesiastic) , (d. 1800 )
- August 7 - James Bowdoin , American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790 )
- August 9 - Francesco Cetti , Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778 )
- September 1 - François-André Danican Philidor , French composer and chess player (d. 1795 )
- October 16 - Daniel Chodowiecki , Polish painter (d. 1801 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- John H. D. Anderson , Scottish scientist (d. 1796 )
- --- Le Quy Don , Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (d. 1784 )
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- January 2 - Domenico Zipoli , Italian composer (b. 1688 )
- January 25 - Guillaume Delisle , French cartographer (b. 1675 )
- February 26 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector Of Bavaria (b. 1662 )
- March 5 - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke Of Kingston-upon-Hull , English politician
- March 26 - John Vanbrugh , English architect and dramatist (b. 1664 )
- April 26 - Jeremy Collier , English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (b. 1650 )
- April 28 - Thomas Pitt , British Governor of Madras (b. 1653 )
- May 10 - Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke Of St Albans , English soldier (b. 1670 )
- June 18 - Michel Richard Delalande , French organist and composer (b. 1657 )
- July 8 - John Ker , Scottish spy (b. 1673 )
- July 31 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician (b. 1695 )
- November 23 - Sophia, Princess Of Zelle , queen of George I Of Great Britain (b. 1666 )
- December 2 - Samuel Penhallow , American colonist and historian (b. 1665 )
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