Date | Event |
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Jan 1 |
Soame Jenyns, English writer (d. 1787) |
Feb 12 |
Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (d. 1772) |
Feb 24 |
Hubert Renotte, composer |
Feb 28 |
Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760) |
Apr 10 |
Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (d. 1766) |
May 7 |
Carl Heinrich Graun, composer |
Jun 4 |
Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776) |
Jun 11 |
Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, composer |
Jun 17 |
John Kay, English inventor (d. 1780) |
Jun 22 |
John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766) |
Jun 24 |
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771) |
Jul 15 |
August Gottlieb Spangenberg, founder of Moravian Church in North America |
Jul 16 |
John Kay, England, machinist, invented flying shuttle |
Jul 31 |
Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer) |
Aug 5 |
William Allen, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Mayor of Philadelphia |
Aug 13 |
Lorenzo Fago, composer |
Oct 2 |
Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer |
Oct 9 |
Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777) |
Oct 17 |
Willem Bentinck, orangist |
Oct 29 |
John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757) |
Nov 1 |
Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (d. 1779) |
Nov 10 |
Carlo Zuccari, composer |
Nov 17 |
Salomeja Neris, [S Bacinskaite-Buciene], Latvian poet |
Nov 28 |
Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Dutch East Indies) |
Dec 8 |
Anton de Haen, medical expert (Ratio Medendi) |
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