* 1711 – Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker's Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.

* 1711 – Edward Boscawen, English admiral ( d. 1761 )

Lavoisier's experiments supported the law of conservation of mass, which he was the first to state, although Mikhail Lomonosov ( 1711 – 1765 ) had previously expressed similar ideas in 1748 and proved them in experiments.

* 1645 – Eusebio Kino, Italian missionary ( d. 1711 )

* 1651 – Joseph Vaz, Indian priest, Apostle of Ceylon ( d. 1711 )

* 1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American minister, orator, and educator, founder of Dartmouth College ( b. 1711 )

Their commander-in-chief that day, Marshal Tallard – who, unlike his subordinates, had not been ransomed or exchanged – was taken to England and imprisoned in Nottingham until his release in 1711.

* François Lamy ( 1636 – 1711 )

* Guillaume du Tillot ( 1711 – 1774 ), politician

The Scottish philosopher David Hume ( 1711 – 1776 ) responded to Berkeley's criticisms of Locke, as well as other differences between early modern philosophers, and moved empiricism to a new level of skepticism.

* 1711 – The London première of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.

* 1711 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia ( d. 1769 )

* 1711 – Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, Austrian diplomat ( d. 1794 )

* 1711 – Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander in the Royal Spanish Navy ( d. 1762 )

* 1688 – 1711: Philip William, Prince in Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt ( son of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg )

* 1794 – Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral ( b. 1711 )

* 1666 – John Ernest Grabe, German-Anglican theologian ( d. 1711 )

* 1711 – Princess Amelia of Great Britain ( d. 1783 )

* 1678 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1711 )

* 1651 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian composer and organist ( d. 1711 )

* 1711 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist ( d. 1753 )

* 1711 – Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon ( b. 1651 )

* 1644 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal ( d. 1711 )

The tuning fork was invented in 1711 by British musician John Shore, Sergeant Trumpeter and Lutenist to the court, who had parts specifically written for him by both George Frideric Handel and Henry Purcell.

* October 7 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U. S. Lutheran Church ( b. 1711 )

Dynastic group portrait of Louis XIV ( seated ) with his son Louis, Dauphin of France ( 1661 – 1711 ) | le Grand Dauphin ( to the left ), his grandson Louis of France, Duke of Burgundy | Louis, Duke of Burgundy ( to the right ), his great-grandson the duc d ' Anjou, later Louis XV, and Madame de Ventadour, his governess, who commissioned this painting some years later ; busts of Henry IV of France | Henry IV and Louis XIII of France | Louis XIII in the background.

Henry Muhlenberg ( 1711 – 1787 ) founded the Lutheran Church in America.

Henry Dodwell ( October 1641 – 7 June 1711 ) was an Anglo-Irish scholar, theologian and controversial writer.

* Theodor Harmsen, ‘ Dodwell, Henry ( 1641 – 1711 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004

By his wife, Bridget Cromwell, Ireton left one son, Henry Ireton ( c. 1652 – 1711 ), and three daughters, one of whom, Bridget Bendish ( she married Thomas Bendish in 1670 ) is said to have compromised herself in the Rye House Plot of 1683, as did Henry.

" The Letters of Henry St. John to the Earl of Orrery, 1709 – 1711 " Camden Miscellany, vol.

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg ( an anglicanization of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg ) ( September 6, 1711 – October 7, 1787 ), was a German Lutheran pastor sent to North America as a missionary, requested by Pennsylvania colonists.

* Mary Villiers ( d. 17 Jan 1734 / 35 ) Married Thomas Thynne ( d. 1710 ) son of Henry Frederick Thynne and Dorothy Philips and in 1711 George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne.

* Henry Paget, 7th Baron Paget ( 1663 – 1743 ) ( created Baron Burton in 1711 and Earl of Uxbridge in 1714 )

* Sir Constantine Henry Phipps ( 22 January 1711 – September 1714 )

They would have five children: Mary ( 1703 ) ( married Henry Lee ), Elizabeth ( 1706 ) ( married William Beverley ), Richard ( 1710 ), Anna ( 1711 ) ( married Robert Munford ), and Theodorick ( 1718 )

*< span id =" William Granville, 3rd Earl of Bath "> William Henry Granville, 3rd Earl of Bath </ span > ( 30 January 1692 – 17 May 1711 ).

He had an affair with Frances Scudamore ( born 14 August 1711 – died 16 February 1750 ), wife of Henry Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort ; this led to the Beauforts ' divorce in 1743.

** William Henry Granville, 3rd Earl of Bath ( 30 January 1692 – 1711, died of smallpox, aged 19 ).

The family descends from Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg / Henry Muhlenberg ( 1711 – 1787 ), a German immigrant, noted Lutheran minister, and founder of the Lutheran Church in America.

* Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent 14 September 1711 – 5 June 1740

* Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Rochester 25 October 1711 – September 1714