1721

Pope Innocent XIII becomes pope
Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Brandenburg Concertos
April 4 - Robert Walpole becomes the first prime minister of Britain
September 10 - Treaty of Nystad is signed, bringing an end to the Great Northern War
November 2 - Peter I is proclaimed Emperor of All the Russias

January 10 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)
February 3 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)
February 21 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (d. 1796)
March 19 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish physician and author (d. 1771)
April 3 - Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
April 11 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d. 1808)
April 15 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (d. 1765)
April 19 - Roger Sherman, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1803)
July 9 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (d. 1781)
July 14 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
August 4 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)
August 31 - George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)
September 14 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
October 19 - Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800)
November 9 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
November 22 - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
December 6 - James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (d. 1809)
December 6 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794)
December 27 - François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (d. 1790)
December 29 - Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1764)

February 16 - James Craggs the Younger, English politician (b. 1686)
February 24 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
March 16 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (b. 1657)
March 19 - Pope Clement XI (b. 1649)
April 14 - Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652)
July 8 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)
July 18 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)
August 3 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)
August 13 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b. 1665)
September 8 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
September 11 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b. 1665)
September 18 - Matthew Prior, British poet and diplomat (b. 1664)
September 20 - Thomas Doggett, Irish actor
October 11 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1636)
December 13 - Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor (b. 1676)
December 17 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1650)
Henri Arnaud, French pastor and leader of the Waldenses (b. 1641)
Thomas Doggett, Irish actor

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