• George Washington, Revolutionary War military leader and first President of the United States.
• Austrian composer Franz Josef Haydn.
• French playwright, inventor, musician (And many other things) Pierre-Augustin Caron Beaumarchais.
• Revolutionary War general Frances Marion, "The Swamp Fox".
• Virginia Revolutionary War figure Richard Henry Lee.
• English playwright Richard Cumberland.
• Swedish physicist Johan Wilcke.
• Dutch physicist Anton Brugmans.
• Swiss politician and map collector Johann Friedrich von Ryhiner.
• Scottish poet William Falconer.
• French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
• German composer Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach.
• Lord Frederick North, Prime Minister of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War.
• Italian art historian Luigi Lanzi.
• English dramatist and theater manager George Colman (the elder).
• Warren Hastings, first British governor-general of India.

• French furniture maker André-Charles Boulle.
• English poet and playwright John Gay.
• Victor Amadeus II, former king of (Piedmont-)Sardinia, in prison.

• King George II grants a charter for Georgia.  The frigate Anne, containing 114 colonists led by James Oglethorpe leaves London in November.
• King Louis XV of France turns the bankrupt Mississippi Company's territory, Louisiana, into a royal colony, naming Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville as its first governor.
• An earthquake (approximate magnitude 5.8) strikes Montreal and is felt throughout the Northeast.
• An earthquake (magnitude 6.8) strikes southern Italy.
• The Dutch East India Company settles the South Atlantic island St. Helena with the idea of cultivating coffee there.

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How They Were Made - 18th Century