1779) February 4 – James Franklin, American colonial author (d. 1735) February 5 – William Smellie, Scottish obstetrician and medical instructor (d. 1763) February 9 – Sir James Johnstone, 3rd Baronet, Scottish baronet and politician (d. 1772) February 13 – Knud Leem, Norwegian priest and linguist (d. 1774) February 15 – Vito Maria Amico, Italian monk (d. 1752) February 24 – Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, German anatomist (d. 1770) February 26 Giuseppe Pedretti, Italian painter (d. 1778) Edward Thompson, prominent Yorkshire politician (d. 1742) February 28 Caio Domenico Gallo, Italian historian (d. 1780) Agustín de Montiano y Luyando, Spanish dramatist whose work is linked to Neoclassicism (d. 1764) March 6 – Jacques Deschamps, French theologian and priest (d. 1759) March 9 – Friederike Caroline Neuber, German actress and theatre director (d. 1760) March 12 – Joseph Leblanc dit Le Maigre, Acadian farmer and trader (d. 1772) March 20 – József Dravecz, Slovene Roman Catholic priest (d. 1779) March 21 – Christian Gottlieb Priber, German immigrant with legal training who emigrated to the British Colonies of North America (d. 1744) March 24 Louis Constantin de Rohan, French prelate of the House of Rohan (d. 1779) Yunli, Manchu prince of the Qing dynasty (d. 1738) March 30 Faustina Bordoni, Italian mezzo-soprano (d. 1781) Jan Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor principally active in the Dutch Republic (d. 1742) April–June April 2 Gaetano Casanova, Italian actor and ballet dancer (d. 1733) Sauveur François Morand, French surgeon (d. 1773) April 12 – Anton Pichler, Tyrolean goldsmith and artist of engraved gems (d. 1779) April 16 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, German composer and organist (d. 1778) April 23 – George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, British admiral (d. 1762) April 26 – Adam Falckenhagen, German lutenist and composer (d. 1754) May 2 – Michael Fabritius, Danish merchant (d. 1746) May 5 – Henricus Boelen, American silversmith in New York City (d. 1755) May 10 – Jean-Marie Leclair, French violinist (d. 1764) May 15 – Countess Palatine Ernestine of Sulzbach, wife of Landgrave William II (d. 1775) May 16 – John Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley of Stratton, British politician (d. 1773) May 20 – Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese, Italian cardinal from the Borghese family (d. 1759) May 28 – Frederick Bernard, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen (d. 1739) June 2 – Thomas Whincop, English compiler of theatrical history (d. 1730) June 4 – Jacob Emden, German rabbi and talmudist who championed