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1704 births

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Genevan mathematician (1704-1752)

Maurice Quentin de La Tour

French Rococo portraitist (1704–1788)

The tenth and last Safavid king (1722–1732)

Carl Heinrich Graun

German composer and singer

Charles Pinot Duclos

French writer (1704-1772)

British inventor

Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken

German noble (1704-1774)

Louis de Jaucourt

French philosopher (1704-1779)

Anne Christine of Sulzbach

Countess palatine by birth and by marriage Princess of Piedmont

Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens

French philosopher and writer (1704-1771)

Auguste of Baden-Baden

German princess (1704-1726)

Andrija Kačić Miošić

Croatian Franciscan friar and writer (1704-1760)

Royal Navy officer, shot for failure in combat (1704-1757)

Portuguese composer

Johann Andreas Segner

Hungarian mathematician (1704-1777)

Charles August Frederick, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Adriaan van Royen

Dutch botanist and university teacher (1704-1779)

Richard Pococke

English-born churchman, travel writer and Church of Ireland bishop (1704-1765)

Russian philanthropist

Hans Hermann von Katte

Prussian army officer

Prince John August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

German prince, member of the House of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne

French sculptor (1704-1778)

English architect, working in Bath, Somerset

Joseph de Jussieu

French botanist (1704-1779)

French astronomer

František Tůma

Amalie von Wallmoden, Countess of Yarmouth

Mistress of George II

Johann Hieronymus Kniphof

German botanist (1704–1763)

Hungarian writer

Francesco Queirolo

Italian sculptor (1704-1762)

Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis

Third Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Postmaster General of the Imperial Reichspost, and Head of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis

Lord Charles Cavendish

British politician (1704-1783)

Benjamin Huntsman

British inventor (1704-1776)

Austrian physician

Ottoman princess (1704-1733) daughter of Ahmed III

Martha Daniell Logan

American botanist and writer (1704-1779)

Bernardo Antonio Vittone

Italian architect (1704–1770)

Stanisław Lubomirski

Polish noble (1704-1793)

Johann Georg Platzer

Austrian artist

American optician and inventor (1704-1749)

scholar of Arabic, Persian and Urdu languages in 18th century India

Johann Georg, Chevalier de Saxe

Louis of Lorraine

Louis Georges Érasme de Contades

Marshal of France

Johann Friedrich Cartheuser

German physician and scientist (1704-1777)

August Gottlieb Spangenberg

German theologian and minister; bishop of the Moravian Brethren (1704–1792)

Maria ter Meetelen

Johann Jakob Haid

German artist (1704-1767)

Jacopo Belgrado

Italian astronomer (1704-1789)

Willem Bentinck

Dutch politician (1704-1774)

Karl August von Bergen

German anatomist and botanist (1704–1759)

Swedish officer (1704–1773)

Federico Sanvitale

Italian Jesuit and mathematician (1704-1761)

Giulio Cesare Cordara

Italian historian

philologist (1704–1759)

Pedro Vicente Maldonado

Ecuadorian scientist

Finnur Jónsson

Icelandic bishop (1704-1789)

Dutch colonial governor (1704-1761)

Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford

British politician and peer