• German mathematician Johann Heinrich Lambert.
• Scottish architect Robert Adam.
• English naval officer and explorer James Cook.
• English author Oliver Goldsmith.
• Scottish chemist Joseph Black.
• Scottish anatomist John Hunter.
• Italian clergyman and economist Ferdinando Galiani.
• Early English industrialist Matthew Boulton.
• French architect Etienne-Louis Boullée.
• American statesman and Delaware signer of the Declaration of Independence Caesar Rodney.
• English poet Thomas Warton.
• Italian composer Niccolò Piccinni.
• Karl Peter Ulrich of Holstein-Gottorp, briefly Tsar Peter III, in Kiel.
• Bohemian painter Anton Raphael Mengs.
• German composer Johann Adam Hiller.
• Shah 'Alam II, the last Mughal Emperor.
• Japanese painter and scientist Gennai Hiraga.

• Massachusetts Puritan clergyman, theolgian, author, and painter Cotton Mather.
• French composer Marin Marais.
• Japanese confucian scholar Ogyu Sorai.
• Japanese painter Chikanobu Kano.

• Samuel Keimer starts the Universal Instructor in all the Arts and Sciences and Pennsylvania Gazette.
• The British Parliament deprives Irish Catholics of the right to vote.
• A university is founded in Havana, Cuba.
• Southern Yemen breaks away from the Ottoman Empire as the Kingdom of Lahej.
• Raja Jai Singh II of Rajasthan moves into his new capital, the "Pink City" Jaipur.
• French king Louis XV contracts smallpox; his brother, King Felipe V of spain, travels to France "just in case", even though he had renounced the throne of France on a stack of Bibles as a condition of the Treaty of Utrecht.
• Spain breaks off a siege of Gibraltar it had started the previous year.

1727 - 1728 - 1729

How They Were Made - 18th Century