(d. 1780) October 12 – John Wall, English physician (d. 1776) October 16 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (d. 1777) October 20 – Francis Webber, Anglican priest (d. 1771) October 22 Antoine-François, marquis de Lambertye, French aristocrat of the Ancien Régime (d. 1777) Louis Günther II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1790) Frederic Louis Norden, Danish naval captain and explorer (d. 1742) October 27 Hill Boothby, English friend and late love of Samuel Johnson (d. 1756) Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, French architect and structural engineer (d. 1794) November 7 William Plumsted, mayor of Philadelphia in 1750 (d. 1765) Henry Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (d. 1750) November 15 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1778) November 16 – Gregorio Babbi, Italian operatic tenor (d. 1768) November 28 – Sir John Frederick, 4th Baronet, British politician (d. 1783) November 30 – Antoine de Laurès, French poet and playwright from Languedoc (d. 1779) December 2 Theodorick Bland of Cawsons, clerk of the court of Prince George County, Virginia (d. 1784) Marianus Königsperger, German composer, organist and Catholic Monk of the Benedictine Order (d. 1769) December 3 – Alessandro Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Cerveteri, 2nd Principe di Cerveteri (d. 1779) December 6 – Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye, Canadian explorer and cartographer (d. 1736) December 8 Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765) Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Welsh diplomat, writer and satirist (d. 1759) December 10 John Poulett, 2nd Earl Poulett (d. 1764) Peregrine Poulett, British politician and MP (d. 1752) December 16 – Robert Livingston, third and final Lord of Livingston Manor (d. 1790) December 18 – John Collier, English caricaturist and satirical poet aka Tim Bobbin (d. 1786) December 28 – Sigmund von Haimhausen, Bavarian aristocrat (d. 1793) date unknown Baal Shem of London, German-born Kabbalist (d. 1782) Richard Dawes, English classical scholar (d. 1766) Elizabeth Scott, British-American poet, hymnwriter (d. 1776) Deaths January 31 – Friedrich Seyler, Swiss theologian (b. 1642) March 5 – William Beveridge, English Bishop of St. Asaph (b. 1637) March 15 – William Walsh, English/British politician (b. 1662) March 19 – Samuel Rodigast, German poet, hymnwriter (b. 1649) April 5 – Christian Heinrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach, German prince (b. 1661) April 17 – Jacques Gravier, French Jesuit missionary in the New World (b. 1651) April 20 – Damaris Cudworth Masham, English philosopher (b. 1659) April 23 – Christian Augustus,