1728 births

British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)

The seventh Emperor of Russia (1762)

Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician (d. 1774)

Scottish physicist and chemist (1728–1799)

German mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1728-1777)

German-Bohemian painter active in Dresden, Rome and Madrid (1728-1779)

British neoclassical architect (1728–1792)

16th Mughal Emperor from 1760 to 1806

English manufacturer, industrialist, business partner of James Watt (1728–1809)

Italian composer

Royal Naval explorer (1728-1795)

German noble (1728-1811)

Scottish surgeon (1728-1793)

French diplomat, spy and soldier. d’Éon lived openly as a trans woman while in exile in England. (1728–1810)

Italian economist

Duke of Württemberg

German composer and conductor (1728–1804)

Italian physician and professor of botany (1728-1804)

French architect (1728–1799)

French chemist (1728-1804)

wife of Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria; daughter of Augustus III of Poland and Maria Josepha of Austria

Austrian scientist (1728-1805)

Mamluk of Egypt (1728-1773)

American writer

German maker of keyboard instruments

Italian philosopher, economist, historian and writer (1728-1797)

Spanish lawyer and civil servant (1728-1808)

English literary historian, critic, poet (1728-1790)

Swiss physician (1728-1797)

Russian inventor

Swiss philosophical writer, naturalist, and physician (1728–1795)

German botanist and physician (1728-1785)

Italian botanist (1728-1805)

American politician (1728-1784)

Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (1728-1803)

English industrialist

German-Danish botanist (1728-1791)

Italian opera composer (1728–1804)

Norwegian poet (1728-1765)

English astronomer and surveyor

Italian mathematician and astronomer (1728-1784)

Austrian composer

French princess

Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and abbess of Gandersheim Abbey

thumb|Lekain in the role of Genghis Khan for the play ''[[L'Orphelin de la Chine'', 1769]]

American Revolutionary War general from New Hampshire

member of the House of Savoy (1728-1781)

Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, professor and rector of Vilnius University (1728-1810)

French architect (1728–1794)

Danish-Norwegian historian (1728-1798)

Swiss philosopher

daughter of Ahmed III

Russian explorer

French economist

Member of the Constituent Assembly of 1789

French painter (1728-1808)

historian and linguist of Qing dynasty in China (1728–1804)

German composer

German mathematician

Temporary Vicar General of the Society of Jesus (1728–1785)