* 1651 – André Dacier, French scholar ( d. 1722 )

* 1660 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1722 )

* 1722 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia ( d. 1758 )

Ahmad Shah Durrani ( c. 1722 – 1773 ) ( Pashto /), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī ( Pashto / Persian: احمد شاه ابدالي ) and born as Ahmad < u > Kh </ u > ān, was the founder of the Durrani Empire ( Afghan Empire ) in 1747 and is regarded by many to be the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan .</ poem >

* 1722 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician ( d. 1797 )

* 1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.

* 1722 – Robert Beverley, Jr., American historian ( b. 1673 )

* 1789 – Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist ( b. 1722 )

A phenomenal number of paintings are ascribed to him, some of which are likely to be by other masters of the golden landscape, such as Abraham Calraet ( 1642 – 1722 ), whose initials A. C. may be mistaken for Cuyp's.

The Si-o-se Pol bridge over Zayandeh River is an example of Safavid dynasty ( 1502 – 1722 ) bridge design.

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ) by Sir Godfrey Kneller.

* Charles Walmesley ( 1722 – 97 )

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.

* Constantine II of Kakheti ( died 1732 ), King of Kakheti 1722 – 1732

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 ).

The first holder of the title was John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), the noted English general, and indeed an unqualified reference to the Duke of Marlborough in a historical text will almost certainly refer to him.

A younger daughter, Lady Anne Churchill, married Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland ( c. 1674 – 1722 ), and from this marriage descend the modern Dukes of Marlborough.

* John Churchill, 1st Earl of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), became Duke of Marlborough in 1702

* John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), soldier and statesman

* 1722 – Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain ( d. 1770 )

* George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen ( 1722 – 1801 )

* 1722 – Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer ( d. 1774 )

* 1793 – Pietro Nardini, Italian composer ( b. 1722 )

* May 7 – Pietro Nardini, Italian composer ( b. 1722 )

* May 7 – Pietro Nardini, composer ( b. 1722 )

Though the " London Journal " for 27 October 1722 reported that " Mrs. Cotsona, an extraordinary Italian Lady, ... is expected daily ", she apparently found time to marry Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni during her journey, and did not make her debut in London until 12 January 1723, creating the role of Teofane in Handel's Ottone at the King's Theatre, Haymarket.

The story of Sophonisba also served as subject for works by John Marston ( 1606 ), David Murray ( 1610 ), Nathaniel Lee ( 1676 ), Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein ( 1680 ), Henry Purcell ( 1685 ), Antonio Caldara ( 1708 ), Leonardo Leo ( 1718 ), Luca Antonio Predieri ( 1722 ), James Thomson ( 1729 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1746 ), Baldassare Galuppi ( 1747, 1764 ), Tommaso Traetta ( 1762 ), Antonio Boroni ( 1764 ), Christopher Gluck ( 1765 ), Maria Teresa Agnesi ( 1765 ), Mattia Vento ( 1766 ), François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, revised by Voltaire ( 1770 ), Christian Gottlob Neefe ( 1776 ), António Leal Moreira ( 1783 ), Joseph Joaquín Mazuelo ( 1784 ), Vittorio Alfieri ( 1789 ), Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1802 ), Marcos Portugal ( 1803 ), Ferdinando Paer ( 1805 ), Vincenzo Federici ( 1805 ), Luigi Petrali ( 1844 ), Emanuel Geibel ( 1869 ), Jeronim de Rada ( 1892 ), Giuseppe Brunati ( 1904 ), Dimitrie Cuclin ( 1945 ), Vasco Graça Moura ( 1993 ), and others.

Pietro Nardini ( April 12, 1722 – May 7, 1793 ) was an Italian composer and violinist.

Marivaux wrote between 30 and 40 plays, the best of which are the Surprise de l ' amour ( 1722 ), the Triomphe de Plutus ( 1728 ), Jeu de l ' amour et du hasard ( 1730 ) ( The Game of Love and Chance ), Les Fausses confidences ( 1737 ), all produced at the Italian theatre, and Le Legs ( 1736 ), produced at the French.

" The melody is adapted from Handel's 1722 cantata Se tu non lasci amore, and is in Luckett's view the most successful of the Italian borrowings.

John Lombe died in 1722 under mysterious circumstances, and was believed to have been poisoned by an Italian assassin in retribution for stealing their trade secrets.

" His translation was greeted with immense enthusiasm and had soon been translated into many other European languages: English ( a " Grub Street " version appeared in 1706 ); German ( 1712 ); Italian ( 1722 ); Dutch ( 1732 ); and Russian ( 1763 ).

* Francesco Sabatini ( 1722 – 1797 ), Italian architect who worked in Spain

The Laub-Petschnikoff Stradivarius of 1722 is an antique violin fabricated by Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona ( 1644-1737 ).

* 1722 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer and musician ( b. 1660 )

* 1643 – Antonio Tarsia, Slovenian composer ( d. 1722 )

* February 21 – Antonio Rodríguez de Hita, composer ( b. 1722 )

* November 6 – Georg Benda, composer ( b. 1722 )

* November 9 – Hryhorii Skovoroda, poet and composer ( b. 1722 )

In 1722, Veracini was involved in a quarrel, staged according to one source by the composer and violinist Pisendel, which resulted in Veracini leaping out of an upper-story window.

* October 18 – Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer ( born 1722 )

1643 – 24 November 1722 ) was a Dutch / German organist and composer.

The composer kept his position at St. Katharine's until his death in 1722, although in 1705 some of the church elders attempted to appoint Johann Mattheson as Reincken's successor.

From 1722 to 1758 the important baroque composer Johann Friedrich Fasch resided here and was employed as a Hofkapellmeister.

* Antonio Rodríguez de Hita ( 1722 – 1787 ), Spanish composer

The first dated reference to the oboe da caccia is 1722, when composer Johann Friedrich Fasch ordered " Waldhautbois " from Leipzig for the court at Zerbst.

Johann Kuhnau ( 6 April 1660 – 5 June 1722 ) was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist.

** Jiří Antonín Benda (" Georg Anton Benda ") ( 1722 – 1795 ), kapellmeister, violinist and composer