the family of the dukes of Carbognano (d. 1765) January 22 – Carl Höckh, German violinist and composer (d. 1773) January 26 – Abbé François Blanchet, French littérateur (d. 1784) February 1 – Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 1751) February 13 Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French novelist (d. 1777) Johann William, Count of Erbach-Fürstenau, member of the German House of Erbach who held the fiefs of Fürstenau (d. 1742) February 25 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (d. 1793) February 26 – Mariano Arciero, Italian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1788) February 27 – Joseph Johann Kauffmann, Austrian painter known for his portraits, church decorations and castle depictions (d. 1782) February 28 – Johann Christian Senckenberg, German physician (d. 1772) March 1 Pierre-Antoine de La Place, French writer and playwright (d. 1793) Jedidiah Preble, Captain of Infantry in Samuel Waldo's Regiment (d. 1784) March 2 Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter (d. 1771) Guillaume Barthez de Marmorières, French civil engineer (d. 1799) March 3 – Johan Ihre, Swedish philologist and historical linguist (d. 1780) March 7 – Stephen Hopkins, governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d. 1785) March 8 William Irby, 1st Baron Boston, British peer and Member of Parliament (d. 1775) Mary Jones, English poet (d. 1778) March 20 – Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth (d. 1782) March 23 Stephen van Rensselaer I, second son of Kiliaen van Rensselaer and Maria van Cortlandt (d. 1747) Henry Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort (d. 1745) April–June April 4 – Hans Karl von Winterfeldt, Prussian general (d. 1757) April 6 – Abraham de Haen, Dutch draughtsman, engraver, painter and poet (d. 1748) April 10 Michel Corrette, French composer (d. 1795) John Pringle, Scottish physician (d. 1782) Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (d. 1782) April 13 – Sir Henry Cavendish, 1st Baronet, British politician who held several appointments in the Kingdom of Ireland (d. 1776) April 15 Stefano Evodio Assemani, Ottoman-born orientalist, translator, working in the Vatican library (d. 1782) Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1783) Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain (d. 1778) April 20 – Robert Foulis, Scottish printer and publisher (d. 1776) April 22 – Henry Fielding, English novelist and dramatist known for his earthy humour and satire (d. 1754) April 25 – Léopold Clément, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine, French prince (d. 1723) April 26 – Johannes Burman, Dutch botanist and physician (d. 1780) April 28 –