1720 births

Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France; (1720-1788)

former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Italian playwright (1720-1806)

Italian painter (1720-1778)

Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and Talmudist (1720–1797)

Monarch of Parma, Piacenza

Genevan philosopher and naturalist (1720–1793)

emperor of Japan (1720-1750)

Swedish queen (1720-1782)

mother of Maria Anna ("Nannerl") and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)

Monegasque prince (1720-1795)

Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) from 1760 to 1785

8th Peshwa of Maratha Empire

Italian composer

Swedish entomologist, industrialist and civil servant (1720-1778)

Slovak-Hungarian Jesuit, astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (1720–1792)

French scientist

German philosopher (1720 - 1779)

German composer

German jurist and social theorist (1720-1794)

French scientist (1720-1778)

ruler of the Emirate of Diriyah from 1765 to 1803

Dutch naturalist (1720-1798)

Polish noble

French noble and politician (1720-1788)

Irish physician and botanist (1720-1790)

Spanish mathematician and teacher

Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church

German scholar

German poet (1720-1796)

French writer

French architect in Denmark (1720-1799)

German actor

Italian artist (1720-1793)

American Quaker preacher and writer 1720-1772

French chansonnier, composer and writer (1720–1757)

mistress of Bonnie Prince Charlie

Danish naturalist (1720-1807)

Catholic cardinal (1775–1803)

British architect (1720–1804)

British dramatist

painter, engraver and draughtsman (1720-1778)

Fuheng (; ; ; 1720 – July 1770), courtesy name Chunhe (春和), was a Qing dynasty official from the Fuca clan of the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner, and was a younger brother of the Empress Xiaoxianchun. He served as a senior minister at the court of his brother-in-law, the Qianlong Emperor, from the 1750s to his death in 1770. He is best known for leading the Qing troops in the fourth and last invasion of Burma in the Sino-Burmese War.

French countess (1720-1803)

Spanish lawyer (1720-1787)

Italian architect

Irish actress (1720-1760)

joseon-era Korean scholar and politician (1720-1799)

Italian cardinal

Italian historian, writer and economist (1720-1795)

Italian cardinal (1720-1793)

British politician and historian (1720–1790)

French mathematician

French politician (1720-1792)

Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist.

French physicist and chemist (1720-1800)

Swedish chemist and mineralogist (1720-1792)

British peer (1720-1786)

18th century Russian noblewoman