de Vaux, French noble and general (d. 1788) March 18 – Jeremias Van Rensselaer, 6th patroon of Rensselaerwyck, eldest son of Kiliaen van Rensselaer and Maria van Cortlandt (d. 1743) March 20 – Johann Sigismund Scholze, Silesian music anthologist and poet (d. 1750) March 21 – Lorenz Natter, German gem-engraver and medallist (d. 1763) March 22 – Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, French sculptor (d. 1778) March 30 – August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof, German miniature painter (d. 1759) March 31 – Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, princess consort of Ostfriesland as the spouse of Prince George Albert (d. 1764) April–June April 7 – Sir Edward O'Brien, 2nd Baronet (d. 1765) April 9 – Nathan Webb (d. 1772) April 12 – William Cookworthy, English Quaker minister (d. 1780) April 19 – Claes Grill, Swedish merchant (d. 1767) April 21 – Jean-Pierre Aulneau, Jesuit missionary priest, briefly active in New France (d. 1736) April 23 – Erasmus James Philipps, serving member on Nova Scotia Council (1730–1760) (d. 1760) May 1 – Nathaniel Elliot, English Jesuit scholar (d. 1780) May 5 – John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, Scottish nobleman and army officer (d. 1782) May 6 – Christian Gärtner, German telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1782) May 8 – António José da Silva, Portuguese dramatist born in colonial Brazil (d. 1739) May 10 – Alexander Luttrell (d. 1737) May 13 – Johan Lorentz Castenschiold, Dutch-Danish landowner who was ennobled (d. 1747) June 1 – Carl Marcus Tuscher, German-born Danish polymath (d. 1751) June 9 Jan Paweł Biretowski (d. 1781) Francis Blackburne, English Anglican churchman and activist (d. 1787) June 10 – Charles Frederick Albert, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (d. 1762) June 21 – Samuel Edwards, American silversmith (d. 1762) July–September July 1 – Sir Alexander Grant, 5th Baronet (d. 1772) July 23 – Francis Blomefield, English antiquarian (d. 1752) August 8 – Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff, Dutch colonial administrator for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) (d. 1750) August 12 – Jonathan Clarke, American silversmith active in Newport (d. 1770) August 15 – Joseph Wanton, merchant, governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d. 1780) August 18 Emanuel Büchel, Swiss painter (d. 1775) Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Saint-Florentin (d. 1777) August 20 James Balfour, philosopher (d. 1795) Henry Bromley, 1st Baron Montfort (d. 1755) August 30 – David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757) September 2 – Abraham Tucker, English country gentleman (d. 1774)