* 1724 – Lyman Hall, American physician, clergyman, and statesman, signer of United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1790 )

* 1724 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor, planter, and statesman ( d. 1781 )

* 1805 – Christopher Anstey, English writer ( b. 1724 )

* 1662 – John Leverett the Younger, American lawyer, politician, and academic ( d. 1724 )

* 1707 – Louis I of Spain ( d. 1724 )

* 1724 – George Stubbs, English painter ( d. 1806 )

* 1724 – Abraham Yates, Jr., American lawyer and civil servant ( d. 1796 )

* 1724 – Giovanni Battista Casti, Italian poet and author ( d. 1803 )

There are early legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, and Jamshid in Persian myth, and later, somewhat more credible claims of short-distance human flights appear, such as the flying automaton of Archytas of Tarentum ( 428 – 347 BC ), the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810 – 887 ), Eilmer of Malmesbury ( 11th century ), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685 – 1724 ).

* 1802 – Franz Aepinus, German philosopher ( b. 1724 )

* 1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

* 1801 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer ( b. 1724 )

The term acquired a special significance in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ), who used it to describe the equally rational but contradictory results of applying to the universe of pure thought the categories or criteria of reason that are proper to the universe of sensible perception or experience ( phenomena ).

Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

** Philip V ( 1700 – 1724, 1724 – 1746 )

* Cyril VI Tanas, Melkite patriarch of Antioch 1724 – 1760

** Robert Waring Darwin of Elston ( 1724 – 1816 ), author of Principia Botanica

* 1724 – Tumult of Thorn – religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn ( Toruń ) by Polish authorities.

* May 15 – Eva Ekeblad, Swedish scientist ( b. 1724 )

After the Woffington affair and a number of other botched love affairs, Garrick met Eva Marie Veigel ( 1724 – 1822 ), a German dancer in opera choruses who emigrated to London in 1746.

* October 16 – Eva Marie Veigel, dancer ( b. 1724 )

She was born in St. Gilgen, Archbishopric of Salzburg, to Eva Rosina ( 1681 – 1755 ) and Wolfgang Nicolaus Pertl ( 1667 – 1724 ), deputy prefect of Hildenstein.

* Eva De la Gardie ( 1724 – 1786 ), scientist

* Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy, Mademoiselle de Nemours ( 1644 – 1724 ), who married Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, in 1665, and had issue ;

* June 15 – Charles Bernardy, dancer and choreographer ( b. 1724 )

Philip abdicated in January 1724 in favor of Louis I, his eldest son with his first wife, but Louis died in August and Philip resumed the crown.

After serving with the navy in significant but non-combat roles during the Great Northern War, Bering resigned in 1724 to avoid the continuing embarrassment of his low rank to Anna, his wife of eleven years.

Her paternal grandparents were Joseph Clary ( Marseille, 22 November 1693 – Marseille, 30 August 1748 ), son of Jacques Clary and his wife Catherine Barosse, paternal grandson of Antoine Clary and wife Marguerite Canolle, and maternal grandson of Angelin Barosse and his wife Jeanne Pélissière, and wife ( m. in Marseille, 27 February 1724 ) Françoise-Agnès Ammoric ( Marseille, 6 March 1705 – Marseille, 21 December 1776 ), daughter of François Ammoric and his wife Jeanne Boisson.

John Talbot Tuchet, 8th Earl of Castlehaven ( 2 August 1724 – 22 April 1777 ) was the son of James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven, and his wife, née Elizabeth Arundell.

Vasili Feodorovich Saltykov was not a count although a lot of publications have decided to make him one ; his wife, whom he married in 1724, was the Princess Maria Alexeievna Galitzina ( January 1, 1701 – October 14, 1752 ), daughter of Prince Alexei Borisovich Galitzine.

Eliot was the son of General Granville Elliott ( 1713 – 1759 ) and his second wife, Elizabeth Duckett ( 1724 – 1804 ).

It appears that by the summer of 1724, the marquise de Prie, and possibly also Monsieur le Duc, were considering breaking Louis XV's engagement with the infanta, despite the great offence this would cause Spain, and finding him a wife who might provide the country with an heir at an earlier date.

He was married 10 October 1741 to Lady Dorothy Boyle ( 14 May 1724 – 2 May 1742 ) elder daughter of Richard Boyle, 4th Earl of Cork, 3rd Earl of Burlington and his wife Lady Dorothy Savile, daughter of William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax.

In 1724 Boismortier and his wife moved to Paris where he began a prodigious composition career, writing for many instruments and voices.

In 1724, Mr Pendarves died suddenly in his sleep, leaving his young wife a widow.

Elizabeth Albertine was a daughter of Ernst Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen ( 1681 – 1724 ) and his wife Countess Sophia Albertine of Erbach-Erbach ( 1683 – 1742 ).

Frederic Harrison believed the subject of the work to be Elizabeth Gage ( d. 1724 ), wife of John Weston ( d. 1730 ) of Sutton Place, Surrey.

* Sir James Dunbar, 1st Baronet ( died 1724 ) a younger son of James Sutherland, 2nd Lord Duffus and his wife Lady Margaret Mackenzie.

His second wife ( her first marriage ) was Barbara ( 1716 – 1782 ), only daughter and heiress of Reynolds Calthorpe of Elvetham, Hampshire, by his spouse Barbara ( died 1724 ), daughter of Henry Yelverton, 15th Baron Grey de Ruthyn, 1st Viscount Longueville.

* Princess Yevdokiya Borisovna Yusupova May 5 ( NS: May 16 ) 1743, Moscow-July 19 ( NS: July 8 ) 1780, Saint Petersburg ), married on March 6, 1774, Mitava ( Mittau ) ( divorced in 1777 or 1778 ), as his second wife, to Peter von Biron, the last Duke von Kurland ( 1769 – 1795 ) and the first Duke von Sagan ( 1786 – 1795 ) ( February 15, 1724, Mitava ( Mittau )-January 13, 1800, Schloss Gellenau ), without offspring

The keeper of the collection, John Elphinstone ( or his assistant, David Casley ), had transcribed the 325 lines of the poem in 1724, but the front and back pages were already missing from the manuscript ( possibly around 50 lines each ): an earlier catalog described it as fragmentum capite et calce mutilatum (" mutilated at head and heel ").

Before Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ), David Hume ( 1711 – 1776 ) accepted the general view of rationalism about a priori knowledge.

In 1724 Thomas ' father, David Pennant, also inherited the neighbouring Downing estate from a cousin, considerably augmenting the family's fortune.

1589 ); on the books of Jonah, Habakkuk, and Zechariah, published with David ibn Hin's " Likkute Shoshannim " ( Amsterdam, 1724 ).

Haim Yosef David Azulai ben Isaac Zerachia ( 1724 – 1 March 1806 ) ( Hebrew: חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי ), commonly known as the Hida ( by the acronym of his name, חיד " א ), was a Jerusalem born rabbinical scholar, a noted bibliophile, and a pioneer in the publication of Jewish religious writings.

* David Wilkins ( 1724 )

For example, David Nokes quotes ( based on Howson ) the following advertisement from the Daily Post in 1724 in his edition of Henry Fielding's Jonathan Wild:

Son, David b. 1698 m. Margaret Donald ; Children: David 1724, Jane 1727, Jane m. Gen. Frederick Watts of American Revolution.