| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 19 |
John Weldon, composer |
Mar 17 |
Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732) |
Mar 27 |
Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (d. 1735) |
Apr 14 |
Ernst Christian Hesse, composer |
Apr 17 |
Frederik I, van Hessen Kassel, King of Sweden (1720-51) |
Apr 23 |
King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751) |
May 28 |
Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754) |
Jun 6 |
Georg Riedel, German composer |
Jul 3 |
Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747) |
Jul 14 |
Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763) |
Jul 21 |
Anthony Collins, English philosopher (A discourse on free-thinking) |
Aug 26 |
Robert Walpole, (Whig) British PM (1721-42) [NS=Sept 5] |
Sep 13 |
Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1741) |
Sep 18 |
Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733) |
Oct 8 |
Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764) |
Nov 12 |
Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer |
Dec 11 |
Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer |
Dec 19 |
Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris France, composer/organist |
Dec 19 |
Louis-Nicolas Clérembault, The Affair of the Necklace |
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