* 1720 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman ( b. 1641 )

* 1720 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician ( d. 1796 )

* 1720 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor ( d. 1778 )

* 1720 – Samuel Whitbread, English politician and brewer, founded Whitbread ( d. 1796 )

* 1792 – Maximilian Hell, Hungarian astronomer ( b. 1720 )

* 1720 – 1742 Edmond Halley

* 1648 – Jeremiah Shepard, American minister ( d. 1720 )

* 1769 – Chief Pontiac, Ottawa leader ( b. 1720 )

* 1720 – Antoine Hamilton, French writer ( b. 1646 )

* Two poets, Johann Peter Uz ( 1720 – 1796 ) and August von Platen-Hallermünde ( 1790 – 1835 ), were also born there.

French earthenware tray and board game, 1720 – 50

There is some controversy over the identity of the disease, but in its virulent form, after the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 – 1722, the Great Plague of 1738 ( which hit Eastern Europe ), and the Russian plague of 1770-1772, it seems to have gradually disappeared from Europe.

During the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, Hume tutored the Marquis of Annandale ( 1720 – 92 ), who was officially described as a " lunatic ".

Three of five siblings survived to adulthood, Denise Diderot ( 1715 – 1797 ) and their youngest brother Pierre-Didier Diderot ( 1722 – 1787 ), and finally their sister Angélique Diderot ( 1720 – 1749 ).

* 1774 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist ( b. 1720 )

* 1720 – Justus Möser, German statesman ( d. 1794 )

An exception is the 1789 publication Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White ( 1720 – 1793 ), considered by some to be one of the earliest texts on ecology.

* Sir George Gordon, 3rd Baronet ( 1637 – 1720 ) ( created Earl of Aberdeen in 1682 )

* George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen ( 1637 – 1720 )

* 1720 – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I.

* 1720 – Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal ( d. 1803 )

* 1720 – Carlo Antonio Campioni, Italian composer ( d. 1788 )

Carlo, Count Gozzi (; 13 December 1720 – 4 April 1806 ) was an Italian playwright.

Carlo Antonio Campioni ( November 16, 1720 – April 12, 1788 ), also known as Carlo Antonio Campione or Charles Antoine Campion, was an Italian composer, as well as a collector of early music.

** Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer ( b. 1720 )

In 1720 Carlo Carlone was entrusted with the task of painting the ceiling fresco in the Marble Hall, which he executed from 1721 – 23.

* Carlo Magini ( 1720 – 1806 ), painter.

* April 4-Carlo Gozzi, Venetian dramatist ( born 1720 )

* Antonio Martini ( 1720 – 1809 ), Italian Archbishop and Bible translator

* 1780 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter ( b. 1720 )

* 1720 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist ( d. 1778 )

* November 9 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist ( b. 1720 )

Alongside the Grand Avenue of Plane trees, in the centre of the arbour and facing the caryatides, a maze with two thousand yews has been planted in the spirit of Catherine de ' Medici's time, according to an Italian plan dating from 1720.

The Treaty of The Hague of 1720 included the recognition of Charles as heir to the Italian Duchies of Parma and Piacenza.

Giovanni Battista ( also Giambattista ) Piranesi (; 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778 ) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric " prisons " ( Carceri d ' Invenzione ).

* Bernardo Bellotto ( Italian, 1720 – 1780 ) Canaletto's nephew, urban landscape paintings

The Lipinski Stradivarius is an antique violin constructed in 1715 by the Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, during Stradivari's " golden period " between 1700 and 1720.

The German vistitor to the Hetmanate, writing in 1720, commented on how the son of Hetman Danylo Apostol, who had never left Ukraine, was fluent in the Latin, Italian, French, German, Polish and Russian languages Under Mazepa, the Kiev collegium was transformed into an Academy and attracted some of the leading scholars of the Orthodox world.

The German vistitor to the Hetmanate, writing in 1720, commented on how the son of Hetman Danylo Apostol, who had never left Ukraine, was fluent in the Latin, Italian, French, German, Polish and Russian languages Also in Latin wrote Hryhorii Skovoroda, Yuriy Drohobych, Fabian Klenovych, Stanislav Orikhovsky-Roxolan, Jan-Toma Yuzefovych, Pavlo Rusyn-Krosnyanyn, Feofan Prokopovich and other.

Giovanni Rinaldo, Count of Carli-Rubbi ( 1720 – 1795 ) was an Italian economist and antiquarian.

He studied drawings by Italian masters, before settling in London in 1720.