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

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

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

* 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 )

* 1720 – Carlo Gozzi, Italian dramatist ( d. 1804 )

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 – Samuel Foote, English dramatist ( d. 1777 )

* June 11 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician ( b. 1720 )

* October 21 – Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor ( b. 1720 )

* Samuel Parris ( 1653 – 1720 ), Puritan minister during the Salem witch trials

Among the earliest tithingmen in the village were Jonathan Robinson ( 1678 ), Abraham and Jeremiah Folsom ( 1720 ), Andrew Glidden ( 1721 ), Trueworthy Leavitt ( 1725 ), Samuel Edgerly ( 1728 ), Nathaniel Gilman ( 1729 ) and Nathaniel Webster ( 1729 ).

Reverend Samuel Parris ( 1653 – 1720 )

Samuel Whitbread ( 30 August 1720 – 11 June 1796 ) was an English brewer and Member of Parliament.

His grandfather Samuel Benton (~ 1720 – 1770 ) was born in Worcester, England and settled in the Province of North Carolina.

Samuel Foote ( January 1720 – 21 October 1777 ) was a British dramatist, actor and theatre manager from Cornwall.

****** Johann Samuel Bach ( 1694 – 1720 )

Samuel Parris ( 1653 – February 27, 1720 ) was the Puritan minister in Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials ; he was also the father of one of the afflicted girls, and the uncle of another.

* Samuel Whitbread ( 1720 – 1796 ) – Brewer and MP for Bedford

In response to Wabanaki hostilities toward the expansion, the governor of Nova Scotia, Richard Philipps, built a fort in traditional Mi ' kmaq territory at Canso in 1720, and Massachusetts Governor Samuel Shute built forts on traditional Abenaki territory around the mouth of the Kennebec River: Fort George at Brunswick ( 1715 ), St. George's Fort at Thomaston ( 1720 ), and Fort Richmond ( 1721 ) at Richmond.

* Samuel Löw ( 1720 – 1806 ), Czech Talmudist

Among the more important works printed by Kölner may be mentioned the " Bayit Ḥadash ", in 5 vols., corrected by Samuel Dresles ( 1712 – 16 ), and the continuation of the Babylonian Talmud ( 1720 – 23 ) begun at Amsterdam, between which city and Frankfurt there was a sort of partnership in printing.

In a 16-season playing career, Samuel was a. 259 hitter with 161 home runs and 703 RBI in 1720 games

Later, Defoe wrote Memoirs of a Cavalier ( 1720 ), set during the Thirty Years ' War and the English Civil War.

* 1720 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor ( b. c. 1654 )

* 1720 – Gilbert White, English naturalist and ornithologist ( d. 1793 )

* 1720 – Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer ( d. 1808 )

* 1720 – Calico Jack Rackham, English pirate ( b. 1682 )

* May 28 – Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer ( b. 1720 )

* May 16 – Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician ( b. 1720 )

* June 26 – Gilbert White, English ornithologist ( b. 1720 )

* April 22 – James Hargreaves, English weaver, carpenter, and inventor ( b. 1720 )

* May 5 – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer ( hanged ) ( b. 1720 )

At the end of the 17th century, a new influx of French Huguenot craftsmen went to London, but marquetry in England had little appeal in the anti-French, more Chinese-inspired high-style English furniture ( mis-called ' Queen Anne ') after ca 1720.

Early satirical works included an Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme ( c. 1721 ), about the disastrous stock market crash of 1720 known as the South Sea Bubble, in which many English people lost a great deal of money.

The early Oxford English Dictionary ( with citations from 1720 to 1854 ) still defined brig as being either identical to a brigantine, or alternatively, a vessel of similar sail plan to a modern brig.

Richard Hurd ( 13 January 1720 – 28 May 1808 ) was an English divine and writer, and bishop of Worcester.

* October 21-Samuel Foote, English dramatist ( born 1720 )

George Adams Sr ( 1720 ?- 1773 ) was an English optical designer and scientific writer who was also well known as a maker of mathematical instruments and globes.

For example, an English pitchpipe from 1720 plays the A above middle C at while the organs played by Johann Sebastian Bach in Hamburg, Leipzig and Weimar were pitched at A = a difference of around four semitones.

Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke FRS ( 9 March 1720 – 16 May 1790 ) was an English politician.

English collections of erotic verse by various hands, include the Drollery collections of the 17th century ; Pills to Purge Melancholy ( 1698 – 1720 ); the Roxburghe Ballads ; Bishop Percy's Folio ; The Musical Miscellany ; National Ballad and Song: Merry Songs and Ballads Prior to the Year AD 1800 ( 1895-7 ) edited by J. S. Farmer ; the three volume Poetica Erotica ( 1921 ) and its more obscene supplement the Immortalia ( 1927 ) both edited by T. R. Smith.

* George Adams ( optician ) ( 1720 ?- 1773 ), English optical designer and scientific writer