– Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian musician (d. 1809) February 29 – Ann Lee, English-born American religious leader (d. 1784) March 20 - Rama I, First King of Siam (d. 1809) May 8 – Caterina Dolfin, Italian (Venetian) poet (d. 1793) May 10 – George Steevens, English literary critic (d. 1800) May 29 – Patrick Henry, American patriot (d. 1799) June 3 – Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, Prime Minister of Naples (d. 1811) June 7 – Fermín Lasuén, Spanish missionary (d. 1803) June 14 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (d. 1806) June 21 – Enoch Poor, American general (d. 1780) June 25 – John Horne Tooke, English politician, philologist (d. 1812) July – Juan Bautista de Anza, Governor of the Spanish Province of New Mexico (d. 1788) August 9 – Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé (d. 1818) August 15 – Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (d. 1785) August 26 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French geologist (d. 1790) September 15 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer (d. 1793) September 16 – Carter Braxton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1797) October 27 – James Macpherson, Scottish poet (d. 1796) date unknown Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist (d. 1803) Li Ching-Yuen, Chinese herbalist, martial artist and tactical advisor (d.1933) (claimed) Pierre le Pelley I, Seigneur of Sark (d. 1778) Claudius Smith, American revolutionary (d. 1779) Sir James Tylney-Long, 7th Baronet, English politician (d. 1794) Deaths January 8 – Jean Leclerc (theologian), Swiss theologian and biblical scholar (b. 1657) January 17 – Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662) January 31 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (b. 1678) February 1 – James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby, English politician (b. 1664) February 7 – Stephen Gray, English dyer, astronomer, and scientist (b. 1666) March 16 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (b. 1710) March 25 – Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect (b. c. 1661) April 21 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663) April 30 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (b. 1668) May 9 – Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese politician (b. 1658) June 6 – Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye, explorer of New France, eldest son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye (b. 1713) July 1 – Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1673) July 7 – William Hardres, British politician (b. 1686) August 14 – Victor Honoré Janssens, Flemish painter (b.