the House of Hohenzollern (d. 1767) January 20 – Thomas Hervey, politician (d. 1775) January 30 – Infanta Francisca Josefa of Portugal, Portuguese princess, the last of eight children of King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1736) January 31 – Mathias Haydn, father of two famous composers (d. 1763) February 2 – Hugh MacDonald, Roman Catholic bishop, Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District of Scotland 1731–1773 (d. 1773) February 9 – Étienne Jeaurat, French painter (d. 1789) February 10 – George Bowman, 18th-century American pioneer (d. 1768) February 11 Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, French naval officer and colonial administrator (d. 1753) Samuel Heathcote, British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1740 to 1747 (d. 1775) February 14 – Odet-Joseph Giry, French clergyman (d. 1761) February 15 – Giovanni Maria Morlaiter, Italian sculptor of the Rococo or late-Baroque (d. 1782) February 17 – Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, painter and architect in Prussia (d. 1753) February 24 – Giuseppe Pascaletti, Italian painter (d. 1757) March 3 – Georg Detlev von Flemming, General in Polish-Saxon service (d. 1771) March 7 – António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches, 18th-century Portuguese physician (d. 1783) March 8 – Johan Friederich Wewer, Danish merchant and ship-owner (d. 1759) March 13 – Jacob Faggot, Swedish scientist, civil servant and surveyor (d. 1777) March 17 Radu Cantacuzino, 18th-century Romanian prince (d. 1761) Charles O'Brien, 6th Viscount Clare, Irish military officer in French service (d. 1761) March 23 – John Bartram, American botanist (d. 1777) March 24 David Renaud Boullier, Dutch Huguenot theologian (d. 1759) Paul Gottlieb Werlhof, German physician and poet who was a native of Helmstedt (d. 1767) March 25 James Calthorpe, Yeoman of the Removing Wardrobe (d. 1784) Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (d. 1783) March 26 – Hubert-François Gravelot, French engraver (d. 1773) March 30 – Edward Stradling, Welsh politician (d. 1726) March 31 – Françoise-Louise de Warens, benefactress and mistress of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (d. 1762) April–June April 3 – Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, player of the viol and a composer (d. 1782) April 10 – Catharina Sperling-Heckel, German miniature painter (d. 1741) April 13 – Alexander Ross, Scottish poet (d. 1784) April 14 – Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (d. 1772) April 17 – Robert Blair, Scottish poet and cleric (d. 1746) April 19 – Valentin Metzinger, French-born Austrian-Slovenian painter (d. 1759) April 20 – Sir Thomas Lowther, 2nd Baronet, English landowner (d. 1745) April