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

* 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.

* 1724 – John Smeaton, English engineer ( d. 1794 )

He beatified Pope Pius V ( 1566 – 72 ), Francis Solano, and John of the Cross, all subsequently canonized by Clement XI and Pope Benedict XIII ( 1724 – 30 ).

* 1724: St John Passion by J. S.

* August 25 – John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard ( d. 1724 )

** John Smeaton, English civil engineer ( b. 1724 )

* September 4 – John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman ( b. 1724 )

* November 22 – John Alsop, American Continental Congressman ( b. 1724 )

** John Michell, English scientist ( b. 1724 )

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 ").

* Johann Sebastian Bach, the St John Passion ( 1724 )

In 1724, John Wright, an English Quaker, traveled to the Columbia area ( then a part of Chester County ) to explore the land and proselytize to a Native American tribe, the Shawnee, who had established a settlement along Shawnee Creek.

* John McCurdy ( b. 1724 ), whose home was the resting place for George Washington on April 10, 1776 while traveling to New York City to take on the British Army and Navy ( source: Papers of George Washington, Connecticut State Library ); grandfather of Connecticut Supreme Court judge Charles McCurdy

* Sir John Holland, 2nd Baronet ( c. 1669 – by July 1724 ), British politician

Colonel John Armstrong was asked to survey the river in 1724, and suggested returning it to how it was prior to the construction of the drainage works.

John Smeaton,, ( 8 June 1724 – 28 October 1792 ) was an English civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses.

The Bristol Avon Navigation, which runs the from the Kennet and Avon Canal at Hanham Lock to the Bristol Channel at Avonmouth, with two locks, was constructed between 1724 and 1727, following legislation passed by Queen Anne, by a company of proprietors and the engineer John Hore of Newbury.

Frontispiece and titlepage of " The Life of Dr John Colet ", Dean of St Paul's " by Samuel Knight, 1724.

* John Phillips ( pirate ) ( died 1724 ), captain of the pirate ship Revenge

* John Gilbert ( agent ) ( 1724 – 1795 ), land agent and engineer

After his death, Charles Rivington was succeeded by his two sons, John ( 1720 – 1792 ) and James ( 1724 – 1802 ).

* John Carteret, 3rd Lord Carteret: 4 March 1721-31 March 1724

* John Hunter ( British politician ) ( 1724 – 1802 ), British Member of Parliament for Leominster

Reverend John Joachim Zubly ( August 27, 1724 – July 23, 1781 ), born Hans Joachim Züblin, was a Swiss-born American pastor, planter, and statesman during the American Revolution.

Wichard Joachim Heinrich von Möllendorf ( 7 January 1724 – 28 January 1816 ) was a Generalfeldmarschall of the Kingdom of Prussia.