1726

Events

• In late 1726, Nader recaptured Mashhad.

  Births

• January 14 - Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, French supporter of the American Revolution
• January 17 - Hugh Mercer, brigadier general in the American Continental Army, and a close friend to George Washington
• February 4 - Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie, Director-general of the Colony of Louisiana
• February 7 - Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, British painter
• March 8 - Richard Howe, British admiral
• April 5 - Benjamin Harrison V, signer of the American Declaration of Independence
• April 8 - Lewis Morris, American landowner and developer, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
• April 12 - Charles Burney, English music historian
• April 20 - Joseph de Ferraris, Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands
• June 3 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist
• June 14 - Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist
• June 20 - Louise Henriette of Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, mother of Philippe Égalité
• July 30 - William Jones, British clergyman, author
• August 7 - James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader, politician
• August 9 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist
• September 1 - François-André Danican Philidor, French composer, chess player
• September 2 - John Howard, English philanthropist
• September 26 - John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist
• September 26 - Angelo Maria Bandini, Italian librarian
• October 16 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter
• December 4 - Lord Stirling, American brigadier-general during the American Revolutionary War
• date unknown
• * Lê Quý Đôn, Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official
• * Cyprian Howe, American colonel in the American Revolutionary War
• * Katsukawa Shunshō, Japanese woodblock artist
• * Jedediah Strutt, English businessman
• * Lady Anne Monson, English botanist

  Deaths

• January 2 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer
• January 12 - Hercule-Louis Turinetti, marquis of Prié
• January 19
• * Franz Beer, Austrian architect
• * Giovanni Battista Tolomei, Italian Jesuit priest, theologian and cardinal
• January 25 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer
• February 18 - Jacques Carrey, French painter
• February 26 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria
• March 5 - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
• March 6 - Henrietta Catharina, Baroness von Gersdorff, German noblewoman; poet
• March 13 - Alexander Pendarves, British politician
• March 14 - Chhatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhonsale 2nd, 5th Maratha Emperor
• March 26 - John Vanbrugh, English architect, dramatist
• April 26 - Jeremy Collier, English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian
• April 28 - Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras
• May 10 - Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier
• June 18 - Michel Richard Delalande, French organist, composer
• July 3 - Galeazzo Marescotti, Italian Catholic cardinal
• July 8 - John Ker, Scottish spy
• July 22 - Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia
• July 31 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
• September 22 - Aixin-Jueluo Yuntang, born Aixin-Jueluo Yintang, Qing prince
• October 29 - Jean Boivin the Younger, French writer
• November 22 - Anton Domenico Gabbiani, Italian painter
• November 23 - Sophia Dorothea of Celle, queen of George I of Great Britain
• December 2 - Samuel Penhallow, American colonist, historian