Jan 4 Antonio Maria Mazzoni, Italian opera composer, born in Milan, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1785)
Jan 5 William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman, born in Becket, Massachusetts (d. 1793)
Jan 28 Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774). Reigned 1757-74.
Jan 29 Jeffrey Amherst, English army general (commanded British forces in North America) and Royal Governor of Virginia (1759-1768), born in Sevenoaks, England (d. 1797)