* 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 – 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 )

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

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

Egremont was first settled by Dutch settlers from New York in 1722.

In 1722, the Dutch again closed off the entrance to the harbour of Antwerp, the Westerschelde.

* April 7-Petrus Camper, Dutch comparative anatomist ( born 1722 )

* Adriaen van der Werff ( Dutch, 1659 – 1722 )

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

" Christoph Wolff adds as a further detail of this visit by Bach to Hamburg in 1722, that on that occasion he performed the organ fugue BWV 542, the theme of which is based on a Dutch popular tune ( called ' Ik ben gegroet van …'), presumably as an homage to Reincken's Dutch origin.

" 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 ).

Leonard Knyff or Leendert Knijff ( 10 August 1650, Haarlem-April 1722, London ) was a Dutch draughtsman and painter.

In 1720 the Dutch East India Company built a fort and factory called Lijdzaamheid ( Lydsaamheid ) on the spot of Lourenço Marques ( now Maputo ), since April 1721 governed by an Opperhoofd ( Chief facor ), under authority of the Dutch Cape Colony, interrupted by Taylor's pirate occupation from April 1722 to 28 August 1722 ; in December 1730 the settlement was abandoned.

The first recorded European to sight Apataki Atoll was Dutch navigator Jakob Roggeveen in 1722.

Kit's grandfather, Christopher Hagerman ( b. 1722 ), was a Dutch officer in the service of the Prussian Army who had fought for George III at the Battle of Culloden.

He then sailed to Batavia ( now Jakarta ) in Dutch Indonesia, finally returning to his family in Galway in Ireland in June 1722.

Peter, Pieter, or usually Petrus Camper ( May 11, 1722 – April 7, 1789 ), was a Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, paleontologist and a naturalist.

Jacob Roggeveen ( 1659 – 1729 ), a Dutchman, was the first known European to sight the Samoan islands in 1722.

In 1722, Dutchman Jacob Roggeveen was the first European to sight the islands.

In 1722, the island was visited by Jacob Roggeveen, who estimated a population of 2000 to 3000 inhabitants with very few trees, " a rich soil, good climate " and " all the county was under cultivation ".

Having finished his studies at Leiden, he went to Paris, where, under the instruction of Sebastien Vaillant ( 1669 – 1722 ), Jacob Winslow ( 1669 – 1760 ) and others, he devoted himself especially to anatomy and botany.

***** Johann Jacob Bach III ( 1682 – 1722 )

Jacob Roggeveen, the first European to visit Tutuila in 1722

In 1722, Jacob Roggeveen became the first European to visit the Manu ' a islands and in 1768 the islands of Samoa were named the " Navigator Islands " by Louis Antoine de Bougainville because of the fact that the islanders used canoes offshore to catch tuna.