Victoria of Spain, queen regent of Portugal (d. 1781) April 4 – Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (d. 1783) April 7 – Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (d. 1800) April 20 – David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747) April 24 – Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784) April 26 – Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (d. 1802) April 27 – Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790) May 16 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799) May 17 – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat and politician (d. 1778) May 23 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d. 1783) May 30 – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793) May 31 – Jacob Christian Schäffer, German inventor, botanist and professor (d. 1790) June 5 – Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779) June 17 – George Howard, British field marshal (d. 1796) July 5 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (d. 1794) July 18 – Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (d. 1808) July 31 – John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772) August 11 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791) September 18 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783) October 19 – Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804) October 2 – Louisa Catharina Harkort, German ironmaster (d. 1795) October 28 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (d. 1793) November 3 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (d. 1792) November 28 – Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish writer (d. 1763) date unknown István Hatvani, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1786) Salomée Halpir, Lithuanian oculist (year of death unknown) Deaths January 6 Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664) Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648) January 7 – Empress Xiaohuizhang, Qing Dynasty empress and consort of the Shunzhi Emperor of China (b. 1641) January 17 – Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military officer (b. c. 1639) February 1 – Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (b. 1660) February 5 – Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex, British countess (b. 1636) February 17 Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield, illegitimate daughter of King Charles II of England (b. 1664) Prince George William of Great Britain, member of the British Royal Family (b. 1717) February 18 – Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663)