Parliament (d. 1792) Hyacinthe Gaëtan de Lannion, French politician (d. 1762) October 30 – Lazzaro Opizio Pallavicino, Italian priest (d. 1785) November November 6 – Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, French writer, poet and historian (d. 1803) November 9 – Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian chess player (d. 1796) November 14 Leopold Mozart, German/Austrian composer, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1787) Franz Ludwig Wind, Swiss sculptor (d. 1789) November 17 Marie Marguerite Bihéron, Medical illustrator (d. 1795) Francis Home, Scottish physician (d. 1813) November 22 – Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein, German artist (d. 1793) November 23 Spranger Barry, British actor (d. 1777) Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, German publisher and typographer (d. 1794) Philip Wenman, 6th Viscount Wenman, Irish Viscount (d. 1760) November 30 – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772) December December 8 – Andrés Marcos Burriel, historian (d. 1762) December 13 – Thomas Gillespie, North Carolina planter (d. 1797) December 15 – Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1790) December 18 – William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington, British Army general (d. 1779) December 25 – George Campbell, figure of the Scottish Enlightenment (d. 1796) December 26 – Salvatore Maria di Blasi, Italian priest (d. 1814) December 27 – John Phillips, American academic (d. 1795) December 28 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French diplomat (d. 1787) date unknown William Bradford, American revolutionary and printer (d. 1791) Dominic Serres, French-born painter (d. 1793) Thomas Sheridan, Irish actor (d. 1788) Thomas Elfe, successful colonial period furniture craftsman in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1775) Deaths January January 27 – William Munroe, Scottish soldier (b. 1625) January 3 – Jacob Toorenvliet, Dutch painter (b. 1640) January 5 Carlo Berlingeri, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Santa Severina (b. 1639) Thomas Hay, 7th Earl of Kinnoull, Scottish peer and Conservative politician (b. 1660) Philibert Vigier, French sculptor (b. 1636) January 6 – Richard Hoare, banker, founder of C. Hoare & Co. (b. 1648) January 11 – Mizoguchi Shigemoto, Japanese daimyō (b. 1680) January 16 – Petar Kanavelić, Venetian writer (b. 1637) January 17 – Sophie Amalie Moth, royal mistress of King Christian V of Denmark (b. 1654) January 18 – Samuel Garth, British writer (b. 1661) January 19 – Joachim Tielke, German musical instrument maker (b. 1641) January 22 William Paterson, Scottish trader and banker (b. 1658) James Winstanley, English Member of Parliament (b. 1667) January 26 – Tikhon Streshnev, Russian noble (b. 1644) January 27