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Events
Births
- January 18 - Lionel Cranfield
Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland (+ 1765)
- January 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian.
- February 2 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden
- February 4 - Pierre de Marivaux, playwright (+ 1763)
- April 4 - Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, astronomer (died 1768)
- April 15 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer (+ 1758)
- May 21 - Alexander Pope,
poet (+ 1744)
- June 10 - Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, later claimant to the thrones of Scotland and England, and figurehead for Jacobitism
- August 15 - King Frederick William I of Prussia
- William Burnet, British colonial
administrator (+ 1728)
- Charles Rivington, English publisher (+ 1742)
- Nadir Shah (+ 1747)
Deaths
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