1708 births

Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany

Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768 (1708–1778)

Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet (1708-1777)

elder daughter of Emperor Peter I of Russia and Catherine I of Russia

7th Dalai Lama

Italian painter (1708-1787)

Russian academic

German noble (1708-1752)

Swedish nobleman, poet, historian and courtier (1708–1763)

German scientist and illustrator (1708-1770)

British cookery writer (1708-1770)

Danish composer

German poet

Italian composer

Dano-Norwegian theologian

Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Danish explorer (1708-1742)

French architect

Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

British artist (1708-1776)

Duchess consort of Courland (1708-1760)

North Frisian sailor

Austrian general (1708–1783)

British politician, diplomat and poet (1708-1759)

Austrian cardinal (1708-1783)

Italian mathematician (1709-1791)

Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Ahmed III (1708-1732)

French noblewoman

French publisher (1708–1779)

British politician (1708-1781)

Austrian composer (1708–1772)

Viceroy of New Grenada

Catholic cardinal (1708-1777)

Roman Catholic archbishop (1708-1784)

politician

German Baroque composer and contraviolinist

French writer

Russian bishop

French noble (1708-1741)

French farmer (1708-1789)

Catholic cardinal

French painter (1708-1785)

French jurist and judge

French dramatist and writer (1708-1775)

Duke of Bedford from 1711–1732

German organ builder (1708-1795)

French physician and botanist (1708–1756)

French nobleman, bibliophile and military man

18th century physicist and mayor of Gdansk

Czech nobleman (1708-1778)

18th-century Archbishop of Manila

British politician, an ancestor of the Earls Spencer (1708-1746)

German composer

Czech composer and organist

Scottish writer and journalist (1708–1770)

Irish priest and translator (1708-1773)

Austrian painter

painter from Bohemia (1708-1780)

architect (1708–1776)

Prince Bishop of Bamberg and Wurzburg (1708-1779)