1774) February 5 – Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix, 18th-century French writer and playwright (d. 1776) February 7 – Nicolas Sarrabat, French mathematician and scientist (d. 1739) February 16 Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer (d. 1758) Johann Elias Ridinger, German painter (d. 1767) February 19 – William FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Cleveland, English nobleman (d. 1774) February 20 Gerard Arnout Hasselaer, burgomaster and counsellor of the city of Amsterdam (d. 1766) Bernardo Tanucci, Italian statesman (d. 1783) February 22 – Giovanni Battista de' Rossi, Italian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1764) February 23 – Thomas Bladen, colonial governor in North America and British MP (d. 1780) February 28 – Sigismund von Schrattenbach, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg (d. 1771) March 6 – Johannes Alberti, Dutch theologian (d. 1762) March 17 – Lady Jane Douglas, Scottish noblewoman (d. 1753) March 26 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech priest, scientist and inventor (d. 1765) April–June April 1 – Steven Hoogendijk, Rotterdam watch and instrument maker and physicist (d. 1788) April 2 – Henry Edgar, Scottish Episcopal minister, Bishop of Fife from 1762 to 1765 (d. 1765) April 5 – Anne Hamilton, 2nd Countess of Ruglen, Scottish noblewoman (d. 1748) April 19 – Daniel Gerdes, German Calvinist theologian and historian (d. 1765) April 28 – John Phillipson, British Navy administrator, commissioner, MP for over 20 years (d. 1756) May 1 – Francesco Robba, Italian sculptor (d. 1757) May 8 – Henry Baker, British naturalist (d. 1774) May 10 Cuthbert Ellison, British Army officer and MP for Shaftesbury (d. 1785) François Parfaict, 18th-century French theatre historian (d. 1753) May 11 – Pierre Contant d'Ivry, French architect and designer (d. 1777) May 17 Gio Nicola Buhagiar, Maltese painter (d. 1752) Sir John Major, 1st Baronet, British merchant (d. 1781) May 22 – Lord William Beauclerk, British army officer and politician (d. 1733) May 24 – John, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen (d. 1780) June 2 – Henry Miles, English Dissenting minister, scientific writer, Fellow of the Royal Society (d. 1763) June 15 – George Browne, Irish soldier of fortune in Russian service (d. 1792) June 19 Aoki Konyō, Confucian scholar (d. 1769) Weliwita Sri Saranankara Thero, Last Sangharaja of Sri Lanka (d. 1778) June 22 – Charles-Hugues Le Febvre de Saint-Marc, 18th-century French playwright and homme de lettres (d. 1769) June 23 – Lord Nassau Powlett, English army officer and MP (d. 1741) July–September July 8 – Nicolò