– Daniel Fones, American military commander (d. 1790) March 12 – Johann Adolph Hass, German clavichord maker (d. 1771) March 15 – Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762) March 17 – Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet, British politician (d. 1788) March 21 – Francis Lewis, Signatory of the US Declaration of Independence, from Wales (d. 1803) March 23 – Bowen Southwell, Irish politician (d. 1796) March 26 – Peter Oliver, Massachusetts loyalist colonial judge (d. 1791) March 28 – Juan Nentvig, German anthropologist (d. 1768) March 29 – John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1787) April April 2 – Pier Francesco Foggini, Italian writer (d. 1783) April 3 – William Inglis, Scottish surgeon (d. 1792) April 7 – Nicola Sala, Italian opera composer and music theorist (d. 1801) April 10 – John Whitehurst, English clockmaker (d. 1788) April 11 – Luise Gottsched, German poet, playwright, essayist and translator (d. 1762) April 12 Sir Edward Crofton, 4th Baronet, Anglo-Irish politician (d. 1745) Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer, man of letters (d. 1796) April 13 – Pierre Jélyotte, French operatic tenor (d. 1797) April 17 – Samuel Graves, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1787) April 21 Anna Maria Hilfeling, Swedish artist (d. 1783) Louis de Noailles, French peer and Marshal of France (d. 1793) April 22 Brita Sophia De la Gardie, Swedish actress (d. 1797) Peter Du Cane Sr., British businessman (d. 1803) May May 6 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher, writer on aesthetics (d. 1780) May 7 – Charles Townley, British Officer of Arms (d. 1774) May 11 – James Drummond, 3rd Duke of Perth, Scottish Jacobite army officer (d. 1746) May 13 Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1765) Louis François de Monteynard, French soldier, statesman (d. 1791) May 15 József Károly Hell, Hungarian mining engineer (d. 1789) Edward Wortley Montagu, British politician, traveller and author (d. 1776) May 17 – Élie Bertrand, Swiss scientist (d. 1797) May 25 Andrzej Mokronowski, Polish general (d. 1783) John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, British nobleman, art collector, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1792) May 31 – Giuseppe Maria Buonaparte, Corsican politician (d. 1763) June June 3 – Robert Petre, 8th Baron Petre, British peer, renowned horticulturist (d. 1742) June 10 – Princess Caroline of Great Britain, fourth child and third daughter of George II (d. 1757) June 11 John Allen, 3rd Viscount Allen, Irish politician (d. 1745) Edward