Jesuit ascetic author (d. 1757) Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor who worked in both the rococo and neoclassical style (d. 1778) February 17 Marie-Madeleine Hachard, French letter writer and abbess of the Ursuline order (d. 1760) Józef Pułaski (d. 1769) Prince John August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, German prince (d. 1767) February 24 – Johann Hieronymus Kniphof, German physician and botanist (d. 1763) February 28 Louis Godin, French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences (d. 1760) Hans Hermann von Katte, Lieutenant of the Prussian Army (d. 1730) February 29 – Phillips Payson, American Congregationalist minister for the town of Walpole (d. 1778) March 6 – John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward (d. 1774) March 10 – Josias Lyndon, governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d. 1778) March 17 – Lord Charles Cavendish (d. 1783) March 21 – Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis (d. 1773) April–June April 1 – Amalie von Wallmoden, Countess of Yarmouth, principal mistress of King George II from the mid-1730s (d. 1765) April 4 – Andreas Brünniche, Danish portrait painter (d. 1769) April 7 – Guillaume-François Berthier, Jesuit professor and writer (d. 1782) April 10 – Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (d. 1766) April 13 – Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford (d. 1790) April 17 Paolo Girolamo Besozzi, Italian oboe virtuoso and bassoonist (d. 1778) Jean-Baptiste Chermanne, architect and businessman active in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège (d. 1770) April 21 – Gabriel Manigault, American merchant (d. 1781) April 29 – Arthur Denny, Irish politician (d. 1742) April 30 – Jean Adam, Scottish poet from the labouring classes (d. 1765) May 6 – Fath Muhammad, general of Mysore and the father of Hyder Ali (d. 1725) May 7 – Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer and tenor (d. 1759) May 8 – Gaspare Testone, Italian painter and architect (d. 1801) May 10 – Jacques Dumont le Romain, French history and portrait painter (d. 1781) June 1 – Johann Baptist Straub (d. 1784) June 4 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel (d. 1776) June 11 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (d. 1742) June 16 – Edward Ward, 9th Baron Dudley (d. 1731) June 17 – John Kay, inventor of the flying shuttle (d. 1780) June 22 – John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766) June 24 Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens,