* 1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter ( d. 1782 )

* 1714 – The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy.

* 1714 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter ( d. 1789 )

* Natalia Alexeievna Romanova ( 3 March 1714 – 3 November 1728 )

* 1714 – Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick ( d. 1774 )

* Principality of Anhalt-Mühlingen: 1667 – 1714

In the early part of the Ottoman – Venetian War of 1714 – 1718 the Ottoman Fleet under Canum Hoca captured Aegina.

Andreas Schlüter ( 20 May 1664 – May 1714 ) was a German baroque sculptor and architect associated with the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and decoration.

The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667 – 1714.

The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667 – 1714.

In the same year he set up his periodical A Review of the Affairs of France which supported the Harley Ministry, chronicling the events of the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1702 – 1714 ).

* 1714 – George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader ( d. 1770 )

* 1637 – Sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America ( d. 1714 )

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ( 24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736 ) was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the alcohol thermometer ( 1709 ) and the mercury thermometer ( 1714 ), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.

* 1714 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian ( d. 1795 )

* 1665 – Anne of Great Britain, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland ( d. 1714 )

* 1714 – James Hervey, English clergyman and writer ( d. 1758 )

* 1714 – Gioacchino Conti, Italian soprano castrato ( d. 1761 )

* 1714 – Gottfried August Homilius, German composer ( d. 1785 )

* 1643 – John Sharp, English Archbishop of York ( d. 1714 )

* The Georgian era of British history ( 1714 – 1830 )

* Giovanni Arduino ( geologist ) ( 1714 – 1795 ), known as the “ father of Italian Geology ”

The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667 – 1714 ( 1999 ) excerpt and text search

* June 18 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader ( b. 1714 )

Adam Gib ( April 14, 1714 – June 18, 1788 ) was a Scottish religious leader, head of the Antiburgher section of the Scottish Secession Church.

As a possible source for the family myth Nietzsche's aunts believed in, Müller suggests Adam Nietzki ( 1714 – 1780 ), professor of medicine in Halle and of Polish ( but not noble ) origin, and Christoph Niczky, of Hungarian nobility, both of whom were not further related to the family Nietzsche.

* 1714: Sir Adam Cockburn of Ormiston, Lord Ormiston

In 1714, Adam entered into a partnership with William Robertson of Gladney, a local laird, to set up a brickworks at Linktown.

* 1799 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge ( b. 1714 )

* James Burnett, Lord Monboddo ( 1714 – 1799 ) Scottish.

* May 26 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, a Scottish jurist ( b. 1714 )

* Anne of Great Britain, ( 1702 – 1714 ) Following the Act of Union with Scotland, Anne's personal union of the Scottish and English crowns was replaced by a political union.

At the accession of King George I in 1714, John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar was deprived of the governorship, as well as the post of Scottish Secretary.

Robert Ferguson ( c. 1637 – 1714 ) was a Scottish religious minister, conspirator and political pamphleteer, known as " the Plotter ".

* John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow ( 1714 – 1775 ), Scottish politician

In 1714 he published Rudiments of the Latin Tongue, which was long used in Scottish schools.

Until that time, the eldest daughters of English and Scottish kings were variously titled Lady or Princess ( The younger daughters of British Sovereigns were not consistently titled princesses of Great Britain and styled Royal Highness until the ascension of George I in 1714 ).

James Burnett, Lord Monboddo ( 25 October 1714 – 26 May 1799 ) was a Scottish judge, scholar of linguistic evolution, philosopher and deist.

* Alexander Garden ( politician ) ( 1714 – 1785 ), Scottish politician representing Aberdeenshire ; fourth cousin of the soldier

He served as Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland from 1713 to 1714 and sat in the British House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1707 to 1710, from 1712 to 1715 and from 1722 to 1730.

George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie FRS ( 1630 – 1714 ), known as Sir George Mackenzie, 2nd Baronet from 1654 to 1685 and as The Viscount of Tarbat from 1685 to 1703, was a Scottish statesman.

* Alexander Wilson ( astronomer ) ( 1714 – 1786 ), Scottish type-maker, meteorologist and astronomer