Events
Births
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January 17, in Boston, MA - Benjamin Franklin, American politician (died 1790)
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January 28 - John Baskerville, printer, typefounder (died 1775)
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March 6 - Sir Censored page, British admiral (died 1792)
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April 24 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (died 1784)
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June 10 - John Dollond, English optician (died 1761)
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October 18 - Baldassare Galuppi, composer
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December 17 - Emilie du Chatelet, French scientific writer and translator into French of Isaac Newton's Principia (died 1749)
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James Abercromby, British general
Deaths
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