1750

Births 
 May 31 – Karl August of Hardenberg, statesman and reformer (d. 1822)
 September 5 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
 December 23 – King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony

 Deaths 
 July 28 – Johann Sebastian Bach (b. 1685)
 September 15 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)