and organist (d. 1789) February 11 – Egidio Duni, Italian composer who studied in Naples and worked in Italy (d. 1775) February 15 Alexander Hume-Campbell, Scottish lawyer and politician (d. 1760) Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont, Scottish politician (d. 1794) February 19 – Scrope Berdmore, English clergyman (d. 1770) February 23 – Chauncy Townsend, City of London merchant and a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Great Britain (d. 1770) February 25 – Felix Benda, Bohemian composer and organist (d. 1768) February 29 Louis Charles du Chaffault de Besné, French naval commander (d. 1794) Peter Jefferson, father of US President Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) (d. 1757) March 5 Susanna Boylston, prominent early-American socialite (d. 1797) Moritz Franz Kasimir von Wobersnow, Prussian major general of infantry and a general adjutant of Frederick the Great (d. 1759) March 8 – John Campbell, Scottish author (d. 1775) March 15 – John Hulse, British Anglican priest (d. 1790) March 17 – Johanna Magdalene of Saxe-Weissenfels, Duchess consort of Courland (d. 1760) March 22 – Ernst Henrich Berling, German-Danish book printer and publisher (d. 1750) March 26 – Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere (d. 1774) March 31 – Jean Chastel, farmer and inn-keeper from the province of Gévaudan in France (d. 1790) April–June April 3 Johann Christian Cuno, German poet (d. 1783) Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis, French lawyer (d. 1791) April 5 – Augustin-Joseph de Mailly, French general (d. 1794) April 6 – Johann Georg Reutter, Austrian composer (d. 1772) April 12 – Rose Fuller, West Indies plantation owner and politician (d. 1777) April 18 – James Cholmondeley, British Army officer and Member of Parliament between 1731 and 1747 (d. 1775) April 23 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (d. 1754) April 25 – John Seccombe, author (d. 1792) April 28 – Johann Rudolf Engau, German jurist (d. 1755) May 1 – Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart (d. 1770) May 5 – Johann Adolf Scheibe, German-Danish composer and significant critic and theorist of music (d. 1776) May 8 – Girolamo Colonna di Sciarra, Italian Catholic Cardinal of the noble Colonna di Sciarra family (d. 1763) May 13 Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and the Bishop of Münster from 1761 to 1784 (d. 1784) John Spencer, British nobleman and politician (d. 1746) May 25 – Wriothesley Russell, 3rd Duke of Bedford, English nobleman and peer (d. 1732) May 29 – Henry Bilson-Legge,