Births 1722

john burgoyne



february 24 – john burgoyne, british army officer (d. 1792)
march 3 – pietro maria gazzaniga, italian theologian (d. 1799)
march 6 – johann christian brand, austrian painter (d. 1795)
march 7 – louis-jacques goussier, french artist (d. 1799)
march 15 – gabriel lenkiewicz, belarusian temporary vicar general of society of jesus (d. 1798)
march 17 – william wentworth, 2nd earl of strafford (1722–1791), england (d. 1791)
march 18

ulrika eleonora von düben, swedish lady in waiting (d. 1758)
heinrich xi, prince reuss of greiz, german noble (d. 1800)


march 19 – edmund nelson (clergyman), english priest (d. 1802)
march 23

marguerite-thérèse lemoine despins, canadian mother superior (d. 1792)
jean-baptiste chappe d auteroche, french astronomer (d. 1769)


april 8 – jakob friedrich kleinknecht, german composer (d. 1794)


christopher smart



april 11 – christopher smart, english poet (d. 1771)
april 12 – pietro nardini, italian composer , violinist (d. 1793)
april 19 – duke clement francis of bavaria, german nobleman (d. 1770)
april 22 (bapt.) – joseph warton, english poet , critic (d. 1800)
april 25 – mark robinson (royal navy officer), royal navy admiral (d. 1799)
april 26 – george coventry, 6th earl of coventry, english noble , politician (d. 1809)
april 29 – francesco carafa di trajetto, italian catholic cardinal (d. 1818)
may 2 – gerhard schøning, norwegian historian (d. 1780)
may 4

david leslie, 6th earl of leven, british noble (d. 1802)
robert mcqueen, lord braxfield, scottish advocate , judge (d. 1799)


may 9 – morgan edwards, british historian , minister (d. 1795)
may 11 – petrus camper, dutch scientist (d. 1789)
may 23 – claudius franciscus gagnières des granges, french martyr (d. 1792)
may 25 – anton cebej, slovenian artist (d. 1774)
may 26 – washington shirley, 5th earl ferrers, british royal navy admiral (d. 1778)
may 28 – hugh pigot (royal navy officer, born 1722), british royal navy admiral (d. 1792)
may 29 – james fitzgerald, 1st duke of leinster (d. 1773)
june 7 – george paulet, 12th marquess of winchester, british politician (d. 1800)
june 19 – george gordon, 3rd earl of aberdeen (d. 1801)
june 25 – st george gore-st george, irish politician (d. 1746)
june 28 – daniel dulany younger, american politician (d. 1797)
june 30 – jiří antonín benda, bohemian composer (d. 1795)
july 1 – vasily dolgorukov-krymsky, russian general (d. 1782)
july 11 – prince george william of hesse-darmstadt, german prince (d. 1782)
july 14 – jean-pierre du teil, french general (d. 1794)
july 16 – joseph wilton, english sculptor (d. 1803)
july 21 – james colebrooke, british baronet (d. 1761)
july 23

antoine petit, french physician (d. 1794)
anne-catherine de ligniville, madame helvétius, french salon holder (d. 1800)


july 25 – jakab fellner, hungarian architect (d. 1780)
august 1 – anne marie louise de la tour d auvergne, french princess (d. 1739)
august 5 – william fortescue, 1st earl of clermont, irish politician (d. 1806)
august 9 – prince augustus william of prussia (d. 1758)
august 11 – richard brocklesby, british doctor (d. 1797)
august 12 – giuseppe baldrighi, italian painter (d. 1803)
august 14 – sir thomas dyke acland, 7th baronet (d. 1785)
august 22

constantine phipps, 1st baron mulgrave of ireland (d. 1775)
josef georg hörl, austrian politician (d. 1806)


august 24 – john gilbert cooper, british poet , writer (d. 1769)
september 1 – karl gotthelf von hund, german baron (d. 1776)
september 2 – vigilius eriksen, danish artist (d. 1782)
september 5 – frederick christian, elector of saxony (d. 1763)
september 6 – christian iv, count palatine of zweibrücken, german noble (d. 1775)
september 7 – ernst anton nicolai, german chemist (d. 1802)
september 13 – john home, scottish minister, soldier, author (d. 1808)
september 16 – gabriel christie (british army officer), british army general (d. 1799)
september 21 – gisela agnes of anhalt-köthen, princess of anhalt-köthen birth , marriage princess of anhalt-dessau (d. 1751)


samuel adams



september 27 – samuel adams, boston politician, leader in american revolution (d. 1803)
october 2 – leopold widhalm, austrian luthier (d. 1776)
october 3 – johann heinrich tischbein, german artist (d. 1789)
october 5 – richard hotham, english property developer , politician rose humble origins position of power , influence (d. 1799)
october 10 – humphry marshall, american botanist (d. 1801)
october 20 – joachim edler von popper, austrian banker (d. 1795)
october 24 – dominic schram, german theologian (d. 1797)
october 31 – princess ulrike friederike wilhelmine of hesse-kassel, german princess (d. 1787)
november 4 – raphael cohen, german rabbi (d. 1803)
november 5 – william byron, 5th baron byron, english dueller (d. 1798)
november 11 – nicolas antoine boulanger, french philosopher (d. 1759)
november 18 – ichijō michika, japanese court noble (d. 1769)
november 19

leopold auenbrugger, austrian physician (d. 1809)
benjamin chew, chief justice of colonial pennsylvania (d. 1810)


november 21 – richard bampfylde, british politician (d. 1776)
november 22 – marc antoine rené de voyer, french noble (d. 1787)
november 25 – heinrich johann nepomuk von crantz, luxembourgian botanist (d. 1797)
november 30 – théodore gardelle, swiss painter, enameller (d. 1761)
december 1

jean-pierre de bougainville, french writer (d. 1763)
anna louisa karsch, german poet (d. 1791)
dunbar douglas, 4th earl of selkirk, scottish peer (d. 1799)


december 4 – guillaume piguel, french-born apostolic vicar of cochin (d. 1771)
december 12 – charles wallop, british politician (d. 1771)
december 20 – joseph o donnell sr., irish soldier (d. 1787)
december 24 – sampson sammons, american army officer (d. 1796)
december 28

john pitcairn, british marine officer stationed in boston (d. 1775)
eliza lucas, american agronomist (d. 1793)


december 30 – charles yorke, lord chancellor of great britain (d. 1770)
date unknown – flora macdonald, scottish heroine (d. 1790)
probable – hyder ali, indian general, sultan of mysore (d. 1782)