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Pope Clement XII elected
September 17 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed III (1703-1730) to Mahmud I (1730-1754)
Anna Ivanova (Anna I of Russia) became czarina

Births

April 16 - Henry Clinton, British general (d. 1795)
May 13 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1782)
July 12 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (d. 1795)
July 26 - Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
September 17 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
November 23 - William Moultrie, American general (d. 1805)
December 30 - William Hamilton, British diplomat and antiquary (d. 1803)
Baron de Breteuil, last prime minister of the French monarchy (d. 1807)
John Cook, American farmer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1805)
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (Lord Dunmore) (d. February 25, 1809)
21 June - Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philologist and scholar of the kokugaku school (d. 1801)

Deaths

January 1 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English politician (b. 1647)
January 1 - Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (b. 1652)
January 29 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
February 23 - Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
March 2 - Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
March 20 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
May 30 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
July 18 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
September 27 - Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)
October 12 - Frederick IV, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1671)
October 15 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658)
October 23 - Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683)

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