16 – Angelo Maria Amorevoli, Italian musician (d. 1798) September 19 – Jan Jacob Schultens, Dutch linguist (d. 1788) October 1 – Benjamin Waller, American politician (d. 1786) October 3 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781) October 4 – James Lind, Scottish physician (d. 1794) October 5 – Alexei Senyavin, Russian admiral (d. 1797) October 6 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, British statesman (d. 1771) October 8 – Gaspar of Braganza, Archbishop of Braga, Portuguese clergyman (d. 1780) October 16 – Lord Augustus FitzRoy, Royal Navy officer during the War of the Austrian Succession (d. 1741) October 26 – Charles Christian Erdmann, Duke of Württemberg-Oels (d. 1792) November 1 William Foye, Canadian politician (d. 1771) Joseph Dinouart, French preacher (d. 1786) November 4 – Wilhelm von Knyphausen, Prussian soldier (d. 1800) November 16 – John Monro, British physician of Bethlem Hospital (d. 1791) November 26 – Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, British duchess; Lady of the Bedchamber (d. 1776) December 1 – Étienne Maurice Falconet, French artist (d. 1791) December 7 – Henry Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode, German politician, canon, provost and author of numerous hymns (d. 1778) December 12 – Leopoldine Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, Margravine of Brandenburg-Schwedt (d. 1782) December 16 Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli, Swiss agronomist (d. 1780) Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798) December 23 – Johann Heinrich Rolle, German baroque composer (d. 1785) December 25 – Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar (d. 1774) December 26 Thomas Gray, English poet, historian (d. 1771) Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet, philosopher and military officer (d. 1803) December 27 – Leonardo Ximenes, Italian mathematician (d. 1786) approximate date Arnarsaq, Inuit translator, interpreter and missionary (d. after 1771) Catherine Théot, French visionary (d. 1794) Anna Margareta Salmelin, Finnish prisoner of war (d. 1789) date unknown Josip Kazimir Drašković, Croatian General in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) (d. 1765) Deaths January 1 – William Wycherley, English playwright (b. 1641) January 18 – Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1640) January 30 – Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, French-born Polish consort to King John III Sobieski (b. 1641) February 2 – Juan Domingo de Zuñiga y Fonseca, Spanish Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (b. 1640) February 19 – Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Norway's first professional female author (b. 1634) March 26 – Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, German book publisher (b. 1653) March 28 – John