people/1720s

Danish painter (1722–1782)

Swedish noble and courtier

Italian Roman Catholic cardinal

Polynesian navigator

18th-century Russian artilleryman

Scottish church minister and poet (1721–1772)

English painter (1723–1792)

German publisher

German-born Danish merchant, banker and politician (1724–1782)

British painter

English pirate

English novelist (1729–1807)

British naval administrator and politician

Foundation sire of the Thoroughbred horse breed (c. 1724–1753)

Mistress of Bonnie Prince Charlie

Ottoman princess (1726–1788)

Welsh clergyman, academic and antiquary

English Anglican priest; father of Horatio Nelson

French painter (1725–1802)

Head of the Maronite Church from 1766 to 1793

English merchant and civil servant

Chief mistress of Louis XV (1721–1764)

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English antiquary born 1720

French priest, grammarian, and educator

British peer and politician (1728–1807)

Irish soldier and politician, British Army general (1726 – 1801)

British courtier

Dutch publisher of Genevan origin (1720–1780)

English writer (1723–1815)

English pirate

Matamba queen regnant

French born English silversmith (1729 - 1807)

Dutch writer on aesthetics and moral philosophy

Irish peer and Member of Parliament

American politician (1721–1803)

British penal reformer and politician

18th-century French historian

Flemish sculptor