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William Hogarth
English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist (1697-1764)

Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor
Antoine François Prévost
French novelist (1697–1763)

Johann Joachim Quantz
German flutist, flute maker and composer (1697-1773)
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
French cartographer and geographer (1697–1782)
Mahmud Hotaki
Hotak ruler of Iran from 1722 to 1725
George Anson, 1st Baron Anson
British admiral (1697-1762)

Jean-Marie Leclair
French Baroque violinist and composer
Louise Hippolyte I, Princess of Monaco
Princess regnant of Monaco and Monegasque princess (1697-1731)
Faustina Bordoni
opera singer (1697-1781)
Joseph François Dupleix
Governor of French India
Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1697-1764)

Peter August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1697-1775)
Gerhard Tersteegen
German theologian and hymn writer
John Peter Zenger
German printer and journalist in New York City
Nicola Salvi
Italian architect (1697-1751)
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus
German-born Dutch anatomist (1697-1770)
Bernard Accama
Dutch painter (1696-1756)
Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
Friederike Caroline Neuber
German actor and director
Francesco Antonio Vallotti
Italian composer, organist and music theorist (1697–1780)
William Smellie
Scottish obstetrician (1697–1763)
Marie Anne de Bourbon
French princess (1697-1741)
Charles Joseph Batthyány
Austrian field marshal (1698–1772)
August Aleksander Czartoryski
Polish noble (1697–1782)
Kamo no Mabuchi
Japanese philosopher
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye
French academic (1697-1781)
John Gill
English Baptist pastor, biblical scholar and theologian (1697-1771)
Johann Albrecht Korff
Baltic German diplomat (1697-1766)
Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém
Portuguese infante
Jacob Emden
German rabbi and talmudist (1697–1776)
Maria Karolina Sobieska
Polish princess
Chevalier de Grimaldi
Monegasque prince (1697-1784)
Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon
French cardinal
Frederick Bernard, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen
Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen
Georg Desmarées
Swedish painter (1697-1776)
Louis Constantin of Rohan
Catholic cardinal

Princess Benedetta d'Este of Modena
(1697-1777)
Giuseppe de Majo
Italian composer and organist
Herman Karl von Keyserling
Baltic German diplomat (1697-1765)
Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese
Catholic cardinal (1697-1759)

George Sale
English Orientalist 1697?-1736
Luigi Maria Torregiani
Catholic cardinal (1697-1777)
Heinrich Joseph Johann of Auersperg
Austrian nobleman (1697-1783)
Alexander Monro
Scottish doctor (1697-1767)
Arsenius
Russian saint and bishop (1697-1772)
René-Prosper Tassin
French historian (1697–1777)
Bartolomeo Ruspoli
Italian cardinal
Henry Flitcroft
British architect (1697-1769)
Adam Falckenhagen
German composer and lutenist
Étienne-René Potier de Gesvres
French cardinal (1697-1774)

Jan Baptist Xavery
Flemish sculptor (1697–1742)
Countess Palatine Ernestine of Sulzbach
Landgravine and Carmelite nun (1697-1775)
Knud Leem
Norwegian priest and linguist
Giovanni Lami
Italian jurist, historian, and antiquarian (1697-1770)
Heinrich von Bünau
German historian
Vito Maria Amico
Italian historian

Josse Boutmy
Belgian composer
Johann Gottfried Auerbach
Austrian artist (1697-1753)