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Events
- 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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