colonial politician (d. 1795) October 21 – Armand-Jérôme Bignon, French lawyer (d. 1772) October 31 – Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and academic (d. 1778) November 1 – Marcus Fredrik Bang, Norwegian bishop (d. 1789) November 5 – Kitty Clive, British actor (d. 1785) November 10 – Robert Hay Drummond, Archbishop of York (d. 1776) November 11 – Stepan Krasheninnikov, Russian scientist (d. 1755) November 18 – Franz Töpsl, German historian and Augustinian Canon Regular (d. 1796) November 19 John Berrien, farmer and merchant from Rocky Hill (d. 1772) Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath (d. 1765) November 20 – Niclas Gustaf Duncan, Swedish post official and spy (d. 1771) November 21 – Samuel Morris, merchant and Patriot in colonial and revolutionary-era Philadelphia (d. 1782) November 27 – Gerard Joan Vreeland, 28th Governor of Ceylon during the Dutch period in Ceylon (d. 1752) November 30 – Ebenezer Kinnersley, American scientist (d. 1778) December 4 – Barbara of Portugal, infanta of Portugal and later Queen of Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1758) December 21 – Thomas Whitmore, British Whig politician and MP (d. 1773) December 23 – Jacob Fortling, German-Danish sculptor (d. 1761) December 25 – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, French composer and violinist (d. 1772) December 26 – Maria Menshikova, daughter of Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov (d. 1729) December 28 – Samuel Egerton, British landowner and politician (d. 1780) Full Date Unknown – Mariot Arbuthnot, British admiral during the American War for Independence (d. 1794) Susanna Passavant, Jeweller and toy designer (d. 1790) Deaths January 6 – Philips van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1644) January 16 – Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651) January 10 – John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland, English nobleman and politician (b. 1638) January 21 – Augustinus Terwesten, 18th century painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1649) January 26 – Luis Francisco de la Cerda, Spanish noble, politician (b. 1660) February 3 – Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1660) March 3 – Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried (1676–1711) (b. 1649) March 13 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636) March 15 – Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645) March 19 – Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637) March 29 – Gabriel Gerberon, French Jansenist monk (b. 1628) April 9 – Charles Duncombe, British politician (b. 1648) April 14 – Louis, Grand Dauphin, son of Louis XIV