* 1650 – Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer ( d. 1718 )

He afforded refuge in Ottoman territory to Charles XII of Sweden ( 1682 – 1718 ) after the Swedish defeat at the hands of Peter I of Russia ( 1672 – 1725 ) in the Battle of Poltava of 1709.

* 1718 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-English military officer ( d. 1791 )

* Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym: 1718 – 1812

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

* 1718 – Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish painter ( d. 1784 )

* 1718 – Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher, author, and rhetorician ( d. 1800 )

Edward Teach ( c. 1680 – 22 November 1718 ), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies.

Mather lived on Hanover Street ( Boston, Massachusetts ) | Hanover Street, Boston, 1688 – 1718

* Richard Cumberland ( philosopher ) ( 1631 – 1718 ), bishop and philosopher

In 1775, Darwin met Elizabeth Pole, daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, and wife of Colonel Edward Pole ( 1718 – 1780 ); but as she was married, Darwin could only make his feelings known for her through poetry.

Elihu Yale ( April 5, 1649 – July 8, 1721 ) was an American merchant and philanthropist, governor of the East India Company settlement at Madras and a benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which in 1718 was named Yale College in his honor.

* 1637 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, German composer and music director in Hamburg ( d. 1718 )

Rabbi Yedidiah Tiah Weil ( 1721 – 1805 ), a Prague resident, who described the creation of golems, including those created by Rabbi Avigdor Kara of Prague, did not mention the Maharal, and Rabbi Meir Perels ' biography of the Maharal published in 1718 does not mention a golem.

Hilaire Marin Rouelle ( February 1718, Mathieu – April 7, 1779, Paris ) was a French chemist.

* 1790 – Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler ( b. 1718 )

* 1682 – Charles XII of Sweden ( d. 1718 )

* 1718 – George Howard, English field marshal ( d. 1796 )

* 1718 – Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.

* 1791 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-Canadian politician, 22nd Governor of Quebec ( b. 1718 )

* 1718 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English politician ( d. 1794 )

* 1660 – Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English statesman ( d. 1718 )

* May 29 – Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general ( b. 1718 )

Israel Putnam ( January 7, 1718 – May 29, 1790 ) was an American army general and Freemason who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill ( 1775 ) during the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ).

* Israel Putnam ( 1718 – 1790 ), a Major General serving George Washington, lived in the town.

* May 4 – Matthew Tilghman, American Continental Congressman for Maryland ( b. 1718 )

* February 26 – Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral ( b. 1718 )

* John Stuart ( loyalist ) ( 1718 – 1779 ), British Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the southern colonies during the American Revolution

# William Penn ( 1644 – 1718 ), English real estate entrepreneur, and founder and " absolute proprietor " of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, enacted on October 19, 1984, posthumously

David Brainerd ( April 20, 1718 – October 9, 1747 ) was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey.

Matthew Tilghman ( February 17, 1718 – May 4, 1790 ) was an American planter and Revolutionary leader from Maryland, who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776.

Sir Frederick Haldimand, KB ( August 11, 1718 – June 5, 1791 ) was a military officer best known for his service in the British Army in North America during the Seven Years ' War and the American Revolutionary War.

Banastre Tarleton was the fourth of seven children born to the merchant, ship owner and slave trader, John Tarleton of Liverpool ( 1718 – 1773 ), who served as Mayor of Liverpool in 1764 and had extensive trading links with Britain's American colonies.

Commodore Esek Hopkins ( April 26, 1718 – February 26, 1802 ) was the only Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.

Image: ThomasPrince ca1750 byJosephBadger AmericanAntiquarianSociety. png | Thomas Prince, minister ca. 1718 – 1758 ; portrait by Joseph Badger ( courtesy American Antiquarian Society

Robert R. Livingston ( 1718 – December 9, 1775 ) was a prominent politician, and a leading Whig in New York in the years leading up to the American Revolution.

Colonel Benjamin Church ( c. 1639 – January 17, 1718 ) is considered the father of American ranging.

Abel Prescott ( April 7, 1718 – October 22, 1805 ) was a physician in Concord, Massachusetts and the father of two American patriots who sounded the alarm on April 19, 1775.

Boylston is known for holding several " firsts " for an American-born physician: He performed the first surgical operation by an American physician, the first removal of gall bladder stones in 1710, and was the first to remove a breast tumor in 1718.

The farm, now operated as the Willard House and Clock Museum, had been built in 1718, by the Willards ' third American generation.

* Thomas Lewis ( Virginia ) ( 1718 – 1790 ), American surveyor, Virginia pioneer