* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1713 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ( d. 1780 )

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

* 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria ( not actually born until 1717 ).

* 1759 – Ferdinand VI of Spain ( b. 1713 )

* 1784 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter ( b. 1713 )

* 1713 – War of the Spanish Succession ( Queen Anne's War ): Treaty of Utrecht.

* 1713 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, French peer and Marshal of France ( d. 1793 )

* 1713 – Nicola Sala, Italian composer and music theorist ( d. 1801 )

* 4 Kings of Sicily ( 1266 – 1282, 1700 – 1713, 1735 – 1815 )

** Philip ( 1700 – 1713 )

* 6 Dukes and Duchess of Luxembourg ( 1412 – 1415, 1419 – 1482, 1700 – 1713 )

* 1 Duke of Milan ( 1700 – 1713 )

* 7 Margraves and Marchionesses of Namur ( 1217 – 1237, 1429 – 1482, 1700 – 1713 )

* 6 Counts and Countesses of Hainaut ( 1253 – 1256, 1417 – 1482, 1700 – 1713 )

* 6 Counts and Countesses of Flanders ( 1383 – 1482, 1700 – 1713 )

* 1671 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher ( d. 1713 )

* February 26 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher ( d. 1713 )

Burlington, Kent and Pope were also informed by the writings of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury ( 1671 – 1713 ) who advocated ' variety ' in a garden, but not complete deformalisation.

In 1713, two patents were granted to Elizabeth Scarburgh and Anthony West for Tangier Islands.

Such positions were formally documented for the first time in 1697 by William Molyneux in a widely publicized letter to John Locke, and more extensively in 1713, when Anthony Collins wrote his Discourse of Free-thinking, which gained substantial popularity.

* Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury ( 1671 – 1713 )

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury ( 26 February 1671 – 4 February 1713 ) was an English politician, philosopher and writer.

Anthony Benezet was born in Saint-Quentin, France, on 31 January 1713.

* Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury ( 1671 – 1713 ), English nobleman

** Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury ( 1671 – 1713 )

Among the other mémoires of the period the best-known was the work of Englishman Anthony Hamilton, whose Mémoires de la vie du comte de Grammont ... ( telling of his years in the French court from 1643-1663 ) was published in France in 1713.

* March 10 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1713 )

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

* John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 1792 ), Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 – 1763

* John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 1792 )

* John Lindsay, 19th Earl of Crawford ( 3rd Earl of Lindsay ) ( d. 1713 )

* John Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Lindsay, 19th Earl of Crawford ( d. 1713 )

* John Allen, 3rd Viscount Allen ( 1713 – 1745 )

:* Charles Schomberg, Marquess of Harwich ( 1683 – 1713 ), only son of the 3rd Duke, died from syphilis, before his father

* Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds ( 1713 – 1789 ), only son of the 3rd Duke

** John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery ( 1639 – 1713 ), governor of Jamaica

* Sir Francis Bridgeman, 3rd Baronet ( August 1713 – November or December 1740 ).

On his mother's side, Harris was the nephew of the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury ( 1671 – 1713 ), the philosopher and famous author of Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times ( 1711 ).

Sir James Steuart, 3rd Baronet of Goodtrees and eventually 7th Baronet of Coltness ; late in life Sir James Steuart Denham, also called Sir James Denham Steuart ( 21 October 1713, Edinburgh – 26 November 1780, Coltness, Lanarkshire ) was a prominent Jacobite, who wrote one of the first noteworthy books in English about economics.

* John Allen, 3rd Viscount Allen ( 1713 – 1745 ), Irish peer and politician

* John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 25 May 1713 – 10 March 1792 )

John Lindsay, 19th Earl of Crawford and 3rd Earl of Lindsay ( died December 1713 ) was a Scottish peer and politician.