1789) September 10 Gowin Knight, British physicist (d. 1772) John Needham, English biologist and Roman Catholic priest (d. 1781) September 13 – Giuseppe Maria Buondelmonti, Italian philosopher (d. 1757) September 14 Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1781) Imperial Noble Consort Shujia, consort of the Qianlong Emperor (d. 1755) September 16 – Charles Lucas, Irish apothecary, physician and politician (d. 1771) September 20 – Louis Du Pont Duchambon de Vergor, French military officer (d. 1775) September 21 – Domingo de Bonechea, Spanish explorer (d. 1775) September 22 – Ferenc Farkas de Boldogfa, Hungarian nobleman, jurist, landowner, vice-ispán of the county of Zala (d. 1770) September 23 – Ferdinand VI of Spain, king of Spain, lived (d. 1759) October October 2 – Henry Tucker of The Grove, Bermudian merchant, politician and Militia officer (d. 1787) October 3 – Antoine Dauvergne, French composer and violinist (d. 1797) October 5 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher (d. 1784) October 7 – Granville Elliott, Army General, British military expert, working for Britain and Palatine forces (d. 1759) October 8 – Yechezkel Landau, influential Polish authority on halakha (Jewish law) (d. 1793) October 9 – Mikhail Volkonsky, Russian statesman and military figure from the House of Volkonsky (d. 1788) October 12 – Khawaja Muhammad Zaman of Luari, Sindhi Sufi poet (d. 1775) October 13 Allan Ramsay, Scottish portrait painter (d. 1784) Jacques de Romas, French physicist (d. 1776) October 20 Benjamin Andrew, American politician (d. 1790) James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury, English noble (d. 1780) Joseph Redlhamer, Austrian physicist (d. 1761) October 23 – Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch lawyer and philologist (d. 1778) October 24 – Marie Fel, French opera singer (d. 1794) October 30 – Giuseppe Antonio Landi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1791) November November 1 – Antonio Genovesi, Italian economist (d. 1769) November 5 – Gorges Lowther, Member of the Irish House of Commons (d. 1792) November 6 – Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds, British politician (d. 1789) November 13 – Nicolas Luton Durival, French historian (d. 1795) November 14 – Blasius Columban, Baron von Bender, Luxembourgish politician (d. 1798) November 17 – August de la Motte, German general (d. 1788) November 24 Junípero Serra, Spanish Christian missionary (d. 1784) Laurence Sterne, Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric (d. 1768) November 28 – Georg Friedrich Brander, German precision mechanic and mathematician (d. 1783) November 30 – Johann Balthasar Bullinger, Swiss