Anne Bonny (1702-1782)
Mar 8 Irish Caribbean pirate and lover of Calico Jack [date of birth is approximate], born in Kinsale, Ireland
- Mar 25 Pieter Teyler Van der Hulst, Dutch silk merchant (Teyler's Museum)
- May 2 Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German Lutheran theologian, born in Göppingen, Germany (d. 1782)
- Jun 26 Philip Doddridge, English Nonconformist clergyman, born in London (d. 1751)
- Jul 31 Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter, born in Dole, France (d. 1768)
- Aug 15 Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter and etcher, born in Pitigliano, Italy (d. 1788)
- Aug 20 Stepan F graaf Apraksin, Russian general-fieldmarshal (d. 1758)
- Dec 22 Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter, art connoisseur, and dealer (Madame d'Epinay), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1789)