1726

Doğumlar

• January 14 – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, French supporter of the American Revolution (d. 1803)
• March 8 – Richard Howe, British admiral (d. 1799)
• April 5 – Benjamin Harrison V, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
• April 12 – Charles Burney, English music historian (d. 1814)
• 20 Nisan – Joseph de Ferraris, Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands (d. 1814)
• May 12 – Alexander Hood, British naval officer (d. 1814)
• June 3 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
• June 14 – Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist (d. 1798)
• June 20 – Louise Henriette de Bourbon, mother of Philippe Égalité (d.1759)
• July 30 – William Jones (ecclesiastic), (d.1800)
• August 7 – James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790)
• August 9 – Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778)
• September 1 – François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess player (d. 1795)
• October 16 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
• tarihi bilinmeyenler
  • Esma Sultan, Osmanlı padişahı III. Ahmet'in kızı (ö. 1788).
  • John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist (d. 1796)
  • Le Quy Don, Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (d. 1784)
  • Cyprian Howe, Colonel in the American Revolutionary War (d. 1806)
  • Katsukawa Shunsho, Japanese woodblock artist (d. 1792)
  • Jedediah Strutt, English businessman (d. 1797)

Ölümler

• January 2 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
• January 25 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
• February 26 – Maximilian II Emanuel (b. 1662)
• March 5 – Evelyn Pierrepont, English politician
• March 26 – John Vanbrugh, English architect and dramatist (b. 1664)
• April 26 – Jeremy Collier, English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (b. 1650)
• April 28 – Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653)
• May 10 – Charles Beauclerk, English soldier (b. 1670)
• June 18 – Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
• July 8 – John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
• July 22 – Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia
• July 31 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
• November 23 – Sophia, Princess of Zelle, queen of George I of Great Britain (b. 1666)
• 2 Aralık – Samuel Penhallow, American colonist and historian (b. 1665)
• Uşakizade Abdullah Efendi, Osmanlı Devleti nakibüleşraf (d.1657)