* 1651 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French educational reformer and Catholic saint ( d. 1719 )

* 1647 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer ( d. 1719 )

* 1646 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer ( d. 1719 )

* 1719 – Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat ( d. 1791 )

* 1719 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter ( d. 1795 )

* 1719 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet ( d. 1803 )

* 1675 – 1719 John Flamsteed

* 1719 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist ( d. 1767 )

* 1652 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician ( d. 1719 )

* 1719 – Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian ( b. 1640 )

* 1794 – Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish statesman and soldier, father of Axel von Fersen the Younger ( b. 1719 )

* 1719 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French saint ( b. 1651 )

In the 18th century there were increasing numbers of such collections, including Thomas D ' Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy ( 1719 – 20 ) and Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ( 1765 ).

Posen Bambergers ) – German Poles are descendants of settlers from the area near Bamberg, who settled in villages around Posen in the years 1719 – 1753.

Christoph Ludwig Agricola ( November 5, 1667 – August 8, 1719 ) was a German landscape painter.

* 1719 – Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian ( b. 1634 )

However dragoons had existed in Portugal since at least the early 18th century and, in 1719, units of this type of cavalry were sent to Brazil, initially to escort shipments of gold and diamonds and to guard the Viceroy who resided in Rio de Janeiro ( 1st Cavalry Regiment – Vice-Roy Guard Squadron ).

From the time of John Flamsteed ( 1646 – 1719 ) it had been believed that the Earth's daily rotation was uniform.

* 1719 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder ( d. 1797 )

* 1719 – Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.

* 1682 – Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, German missionary ( d. 1719 )

* 1719 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist ( d. 1797 )

* 1675 – Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials ( d. 1719 )

* 1662 – George Smalridge, English bishop ( d. 1719 )

* May 18 – George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol ( d. 1719 )

* May 11 – George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras ( b. 1719 )

In January 1719, George I, August II and emperor Charles VI concluded a treaty in Vienna aimed at the reduction of Russia's frontiers to the pre-war limits.

The first ' castle ' in the park of the Hermitage was built at this time by Margrave George William ( 1715 – 1719 ).

Some later works with an impact on Rosicrucianism were the Opus magocabalisticum et theosophicum by George von Welling ( 1719 ), of alchemical and paracelsian inspiration, and the Aureum Vellus oder Goldenes Vliess by Hermann Fictuld in 1749.

* George Campbell ( 1719 – 1796 ) philosopher of language, theology, and rhetoric

He was a friend to George Frederic Handel and appointed director to the Royal Academy of Music ( 1719 ) from the start in 1719 till 1729.

George Frideric Handel was named musical director of the company, at Lincoln's Inn Fields, in 1719, but his first season of opera, at Covent garden, was not presented until 1734.

Image: 1719 George I farthing lighter. jpg | George I farthing, 1719, showing Brittania with a sword and olive branch

In 1719 he was one of the three main investors in George Frideric Handel's new opera company, the Royal Academy of Music ( 1719 ).

Lichfield was an Anglican, but knew Phillips as the latter was chaplain to his neighbour in Oxfordshire, the recusant George Talbot, 14th Earl of Shrewsbury ( 1719 – 1787 ).

* George Augustus Selwyn ( politician ) ( 1719 – 1791 ), English politician and wit

In 1714 he received an appointment in the household of George I, by whom on 28 April 1719 he was created Duke of Manchester.

* George Talbot, 14th Earl of Shrewsbury, 14th Earl of Waterford ( 1719 – 1787 )

** George Alan Cathcart ( b. 1719 )

Upon his death his widow received a pension from George I in 1719 in recognition of her husband's translation of Lucan.

The architect George Dance the elder married Elizabeth Gould in 1719.

It was also in 1719 that the Irish exile, the Duke of Ormonde, organized an expedition with extensive Spanish support to invade Britain and replace King George I with James Stuart, the Jacobite " Old Pretender.