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1718 births

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Maria Gaetana Agnesi

Italian mathematician and philanthropist (1718–1799)

Anna Leopoldovna

Regent and Grand Duchess of Russia (1718–1746)

Mariana Victoria of Spain

Infanta of Spain by birth, later regent of Portugal

Thomas Chippendale

British cabinet-maker (1718–1779)

Alexander Roslin

Swedish painter (1718–1793)

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria

Austrian archduchess, daughter of the Emperor of the Holy Empire Charles VI (1718-1744)

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

English Peer and statesman; inventor of the sandwich

Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux

Swiss astronomer (1718–1751)

Jacob Christian Schäffer

German inventor, professor, botanist, entomologist and ornithologist (1718–1790)

Johan Ernst Gunnerus

Norwegian bishop and botanist (1718-1773)

Jean Joseph Marie Amiot

French sinologist and missionary (1718-1793)

British physicist

Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht

Russian statesman (1718–1783)

British philosopher

George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney

Royal Navy admiral; (1719–1792)

Elizabeth Montagu

British social reformer, patron of the arts, hostess, literary critic, and writer; (1718-1800)

Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie

Marshal of France (1718-1804)

British anatomist and physician (1718-1783)

Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, 10th Count of Aranda

Spanish diplomat 10th Count of Aranda (1719-1798)

Antoine de Chézy

French engineer

Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix

French astronomer (1718-1802)

Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg

German music critic, music-theorist and composer

American Revolutionary War general (1718–1790)

Adam František Kollár

Slovak jurist, historian, ethnologist, and policy advisor

Hilaire Rouelle

Leopold August Abel

Violinist, composer

Saverio Bettinelli

Italian Jesuit writer (1718-1808)

Pierre-Joseph Macquer

Nizam of Hyderabad (1718-1763)

English inventor

Duke Louis Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg

German Duke, general, and advisor to the Stadhouder of the Netherlands (1718–1788)

Salomée Halpir

Jakob Emanuel Handmann

Swiss painter specialised in portrait painting (1718–1781)

Zusha of Hanipol

Ukrainian rabbi.

Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil

Italian cardinal (1718–1802)

Søren Abildgaard

Naturalist, writer and illustrator (1718-1791)

François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud

William Henry of Nassau-Saarbrücken

Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1718–1768)

Martin Johann Schmidt

Austrian painter (1718-1801)

Qing dynasty empress (1718-1766)

Jassa Singh Ahluwalia

Prominent Sikh leader

István Hatvani

Hungarian mathematician (1718–1786)

Casimir Christoph Schmidel

German botanist (1718–1792)

Missionary in colonial North America

Friedrich August von Finck

German general (1718–1766)

Christian Horrebow

Danish astronomer (1718-1776)

Foundress of Presentation Sisters

Barbara Sanguszko (née Dunin)

Polish-Lithuanian poet, translator and philanthropist (1718-1791)

Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford

British diplomat

English engraver and cartographer (1718–1784)

Japanese poet and writer

Lawrence Washington

American soldier, planter, politician, and prominent landowner in colonial Virginia; half-brother of George Washington

George IX of Imereti

King of Imereti

Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire

British Marquess and politician

Élie Catherine Fréron

French writer (1718–1776)

Giovanni Maria Riminaldi

Italian cardinal

British field marshal and politician

Claude-Henri Watelet

French writer (1718-1786)

Scottish minister and historian (1718–1790)