page_title: 1720
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1720 / Births
context_page_description: 1720 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1720th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 720th year of the 2nd millennium, the 20th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1720, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 2 – José de Gálvez, Spanish politician (d. 1787)
  January 4 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer (d. 1774)
  January 13 – Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808)
  January 27 – Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (d. 1777)
  January 30 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist, entomologist (d. 1778)
  February 8 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
  February 15 – Philippe Macquer, French historian (d. 1770)
  March 9 – Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (d. 1790)
  March 13 – Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)
  March 22 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
  April 23 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797)
  May 8 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1764)
  May 15 – Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1792)
  July 18 – Gilbert White, English naturalist and cleric (d. 1793)
  August 8 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
  August 12 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778)
  August 18  – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760)
  August 30 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer, politician (d. 1796)
  October 3 – Johann Peter Uz, German poet (d. 1796)
  October 4 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (d. 1778)
  October 8 – Jonathan Mayhew, American minister, patriot (d. 1766)
  October 8 – Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, French novelist, translator and chemist (d. 1805)
  October 19 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher, abolitionist (d. 1772)
  November 1 – Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
  November 8 – Madeleine de Puisieux, French writer and active feminist  (d. 1798)
  November 16 – Carlo Antonio Campioni, French-born composer (d. 1788)
  December 14 – Justus Möser, German statesman (d. 1794)
  December 24 – Anna Maria Mozart (née Pertl; d. 1778), wife of Leopold Mozart and mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Maria Anna Mozart
  December 26 – Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1803)
  December 31 – Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (d. 1788)
  "date unknown" – Jane Gomeldon, English writer, poet and adventurer (d. 1779)
  "date unknown" – Sheikh Lamech, Persian banker and accountant (d. 1813)
  "date unknown" – Madame de Beaumer, French editor and writer (d. 1766)
caption: Charles Edward Stuart
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