Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813) Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (d. 1788) March 28 – Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman, biographer (d. 1795) April 2 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer, writer (d. 1798) April 6 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot, military leader (d. 1807) April 23 – Gerard Majella, Italian Catholic lay brother and saint (d. 1755) April 25 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (d. 1786) May 12 – Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier, writer (d. 1785) May 25 – Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776) June 29 – Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa, Italian ruler (d. 1790) July 1 – Rhoda Delaval, English portrait painter (d. 1757) July 4 Jean-Baptiste Luton Durival, French historian, diplomat and Encyclopédiste (d. 1810) Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807) July 24 – John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807) August 21 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (d. 1805) August 29 – Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767) September 5 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799) September 12 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792) September 16 Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815) Anna Barbara Gignoux, German industrialist (d. 1796) September 24 – Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803) September 29 – Robert Clive, British general, statesman (d. 1774) October 12 – Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist, entomologist (d. 1810) October 21 – Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (d. 1801) December 11 – George Mason, American founding father (d. 1792) December 18 – Johann Salomo Semler, German historian, Bible commentator (d. 1791) December 23 – Ahmad Shah Bahadur, 14th Mughal Emperor (d. 1775) date unknown – Magdalena Dávalos y Maldonado, Ecuadorian scholar, socialite (d. 1806) Deaths January 6 – Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653) January 26 – Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Georgian prince (b. 1658) January 29 – Nuno Álvares Pereira de Melo, 1st Duke of Cadaval, Portuguese nobleman and statesman (b. 1638) February 7 – Johann Philipp Krieger, German Baroque composer (b. 1649) February 8 – Emperor Peter I of Russia (b. 1672) March 2 – José Benito de Churriguera, Spanish architect, sculptor (b. 1665) March 10 – John Conyers, English politician (b. 1650) March 30 – René de Froulay de Tessé, French Marshal and diplomat (b. 1648) April 8 – John Wise, English clergyman (b. 1652) April 12 – Giovanni Battista Foggini, Italian artist