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

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

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

* 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 )

* September 27, 1722 ( in Boston )- Samuel Adams-American statesman, political philosopher and Founding Father of the U. S .. Died on October 2, 1803.

* October 2 – Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader ( b. 1722 )

Barrington was incorporated in 1722 and named for Samuel Shute of Barrington Hall, colonial governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Samuel Adams ( 1722 – 1803 ) was a Boston leader in the era of the American Revolution.

* Samuel Adams ( 1722 – 1803 ): Founding Father

* Samuel Adams ( 1722 – 1803 ), American revolutionary leader, Governor of Massachusetts

* Samuel Adams ( 1722 – 1803 ), statesman, signer of the Declaration of Independence

They were depicted in the foreground of a drawing of Wakefield from the south by Samuel Buck in 1719 or 1722, and in 1753 an engraving was published of an Elizabethan survey drawing.

On July 25, 1722, Massachusetts Governor Samuel Shute declared war on the eastern Indians.

* 1722 Samuel Bettridge

' Samuel Croxall echoes L ' Estrange's observation in Fables of Aesop and Others ( 1722 ).

Samuel Fraunces ( circa 1722, West Indies – October 10, 1795, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American restaurateur, and the owner / operator of Fraunces Tavern in New York City.

Kerr developed an improvement to the Adams revolver, British Patent No. 1722 of July 28, 1855, and when Adams left the Deane brothers to found the London Armoury Company on February 9, 1856, Kerr went with him.

* September 3 – John Montgomery, American delegate to the Continental Congress ( b. 1722 )

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

They suggest that Native American refugees of other tribes, such as Tuscarora, most of whom migrated to New York by 1722, gathered in the Robeson County area and merged as a people in the early nineteenth century.

Benjamin Chew ( November 19, 1722 – January 20, 1810 ) was a fifth-generation American, a Quaker-born legal scholar, a prominent and successful Philadelphia lawyer, head of the Pennsylvania Judiciary System under both Colony and Commonwealth, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of Pennsylvania.

Born in Dalkeith: the American Architecht Robert Smith ( 1722 ), the politician Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville ( 1742 ), the artist John Kay ( 1742 ), Robert Aitken who published the first Bible in North America, David Mushet, who pioneered iron production, photographer Robert Macpherson ( 1814 ), and the mathematical physicist Peter Guthrie Tait ( 1831 ).

* Robert Smith ( architect ) ( 1722 – 1777 ), American architect

John Pitcairn ( 28 December 1722 – 17 June 1775 ) was a British Marine who was stationed in Boston, Massachusetts at the start of the American Revolutionary War.

The river was named after François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de Grasse ( 1722 – 1788 ), a French admiral who assisted American forces during the Battle of Yorktown in the Revolutionary War.