* 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 )

* 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.

The managers of Drury Lane suppressed its performance, however, and it did not debut until 1724 at the Haymarket Theatre.

It was composed in Leipzig at the end of 1724 for the second Sunday after Epiphany of 1725, which occurred that year on 14 January, date of the work's first performance.

It was first performed at the King's Theatre, London, on 31 October 1724, around the time of the annual performance of Nicholas Rowe's Tamerlane plays ( 4 – 5 November ).

* 1724 – Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist ( d. 1811 )

* 1724 – Gottfried Heinrich Bach, German son of Johann Sebastian Bach ( d. 1763 )

Johann Baptist Homann ( 20 March 1664 – 1 July 1724 ) was a German geographer and cartographer, who made maps of the Americas.

The first permanent photograph was made in 1822 by a French inventor, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, building on a discovery by Johann Heinrich Schultz ( 1724 ): that a silver and chalk mixture darkens under exposure to light.

* October 11 – Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist ( b. 1724 )

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

Its outer appearance is dominated by a late-renaissance three-story tower added by Johann Georg Schott in 1724.

Previous discoveries of photosensitive methods and substances — including silver nitrate by Albertus Magnus in the 13th century, a silver and chalk mixture by Johann Heinrich Schulze in 1724, and Joseph Niépce's bitumen-based heliography in 1822 — contributed to development of the daguerreotype and the other silver based photographic processes that followed-collodion wet plate, and silver gelatin.

* St John Passion ( 1724 ) by Johann Sebastian Bach

* Johann Ignaz von Felbiger ( 1724 – 1788 ), educational reformer, abbot of the Order of.

* February 12 ( buried ) – Gottfried Heinrich Bach, keyboardist son of Johann Sebastian Bach ( born 1724 )

** Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and fossils collector ( 1724 – 1811 )

** Johann Konrad Ammann, Swiss physician and instructor of deaf persons ( 1669 – 1724 )

* Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein ( 6 July 1724 – 22 December 1748 )

Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein ( Full name: Johann Nepomuk Karl Borromäus Joseph Franz de Paula ) ( 6 July 1724 – 22 December 1748 ) was the Prince of Liechtenstein between 1732 and 1748.

Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn ( 1719 – 1724 ) moved the court to a palace erected in 1701-1704, the predecessor of the residence, but the rather small palace did not, in his opinion, measure up to his position as an absolute monarch.

Johann Julius Walbaum ( 30 June 1724, Wolfenbüttel – 21 August 1799 ) was a physician, naturalist and taxonomist.

Johann Conrad Ammann ( December 24, 1724, Schaffhausen – October 11, 1811, Schaffhausen ) was a Swiss physician, naturalist, and collector.

He is often confused with Johann Konrad Ammann, born 1669 in Schaffhausen and died 1724 in Warmoud near Leiden.

Johann Konrad Amman ( 1669 – 1724 ) was a Swiss physician and instructor of non-verbal deaf persons.

He is often confounded with Johann Conrad Amman, born 1724 and died 1811 in Schaffhausen.

* Peter von Biron, ( 1724 – 1800 ), sovereign Duke of Courland ( 1769 – 95 ), son of Ernst Johann von Biron

Johann Bernhard BasedowJohann Bernhard Basedow ( September 11, 1724, – July 25, 1790 ) was a German educational reformer, teacher and writer.