famine in Scotland are ongoing. Births January–March January 2 – Sir Robert Cotton, 3rd Baronet, British politician (d. 1748) January 6 – Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian composer and oboist (d. 1750) January 9 – Ferdinand Ashmall, British clergy (d. 1798) January 18 – Paul Bécart de Granville et de Fonville, French colonial officer (d. 1754) January 25 Prince Francis Ernest of Hesse-Darmstadt, German aristocrat (d. 1716) Satake Yoshitada (d. 1715) January 26 – José Quer y Martínez, Spanish botanist (d. 1764) January 27 – Anne Howard, Countess of Effingham, British countess (d. 1774) February 2 William Borlase, English antiquarian, geologist and naturalist (d. 1772) François de Chevert, French general (d. 1769) Christoph Sauer, German-American printer and ublisher (d. 1757) February 6 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Russian mathematician (d. 1726) February 10 – Armand Jules de Rohan-Guéméné, French archbishop (d. 1762) February 11 Françoise de Graffigny, French writer (d. 1758) Abraham Pelt, Danish industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1783) February 13 – Francesco Maria Della Rovere, politician (d. 1768) February 14 – Joseph Anton Glantschnigg, painter of German origin (d. 1755) February 16 – Philippe-Claude de Montboissier de Beaufort, French politician (d. 1765) February 21 – Anthony Grey, Earl of Harold, English noble (d. 1723) March 2 – Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, German music publisher (d. 1777) March 3 – María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio, Mexican writer (d. 1756) March 4 – Marie Huber, Genevan writer and theologian (d. 1753) March 9 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish scholar and writer (d. 1772) March 10 – Adrien Manglard, French painter and engraver (d. 1760) March 12 – Mihael Summa, Albanian clergyman and auxiliary bishop (d. 1777) March 13 – Daniel Overbeek, Dutch colonial governor (d. 1751) March 15 Infante António of Portugal, Portuguese infante (d. 1757) Alexander Joseph Sulkowski, Polish and Saxon general (d. 1762) March 16 Christian Hilfgott Brand, German Austrian painter (d. 1756) William Greene, Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d. 1758) March 19 William Noel, English barrister, judge and politician, (d. 1762) Christian Seybold, German painter (d. 1768) March 20 – Toki Yoritoshi, Daimyo in the Tokugawa shogunate (d. 1744) March 27 – Johann Philipp Anton von Franckenstein, German priest (d. 1753) April–June April 8 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (d. 1723) April 14 – Pietro Guarneri, Italian luthier (d. 1762) April 16 – Christoph Jacob Trew, German physician and botanist (d. 1769) April 17 –