– Nicolò Arrighetti, Italian professor of natural philosophy (d. 1767) March 18 – Johannes Gessner, Swiss mathematician (d. 1790) March 31 – Louis-Charles Le Vassor de La Touche, French naval general, governor of Martinique, governor general of the Windward Islands (d. 1781) April–June April 2 – Josiah Taft, farmer, local official, and Massachusetts legislator (d. 1756) April 6 – Thomas Hopkinson, lawyer (d. 1751) April 7 – William Stewart, 1st Earl of Blessington (d. 1769) April 14 – Charles Collé, French dramatist and songwriter (d. 1783) April 17 – Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, Italian-born astronomer (d. 1788) April 25 Carl Johan Cronstedt, Swedish architect (d. 1779) Robert Grace, American manufacturer of stoves and furnaces (d. 1766) April 27 – Sir Francis Blake, 1st Baronet, of Twizell Castle (d. 1780) April 30 – Christian Gottlieb Ludwig, German physician and botanist born in Brieg (d. 1773) May 1 – Joachim Wasserschlebe, German-Danish diplomat (d. 1787) May 9 – Mihály Salbeck, doctor of philosophy, priest of the Society of Jesus, and teacher (d. 1758) May 24 – Théodore Tronchin, Genevan physician (d. 1781) May 27 – Margaret Lloyd, Welsh Moravian worker and activist (d. 1762) June 4 – Tomás Sánchez, veteran Spanish captain who founded Laredo (d. 1796) June 9 Nathaniel Booth, 4th Baron Delamer, English peer who served as Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords from 1765 (d. 1770) Francis Towneley, English Catholic and supporter of the exiled House of Stuart or Jacobite (d. 1746) June 11 – Joachim Martin Falbe, German portrait painter (d. 1782) June 15 – Louis, Count of Clermont (d. 1771) June 28 – Nathan Tupper, farmer (d. 1784) July–September July 4 – Antonio Orgiazzi il Vecchio, Italian painter active mainly in the Valselsia (d. 1788) July 5 – Étienne de Silhouette, French Ancien Régime Controller-General of Finances under Louis XV (d. 1767) July 10 – William Berners, English property developer and slave owner (d. 1783) July 11 – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1785) July 15 – Antoine Matthieu Le Carpentier, French architect (d. 1773) July 17 Giovanni Carlo Bandi, Italian Cardinal who served as Bishop of Imola (d. 1784) Friedrich Christian Baumeister, German philosopher (d. 1785) Giuseppe Antonio Luchi, Italian painter (d. 1774) July 24 – James Harris, grammarian (d. 1780) August 8 Hermann Anton Gelinek, German monk and musician (d. 1779) Johann Georg Gmelin, German naturalist (d. 1755) Tokugawa Ietsugu, seventh