* 1726 – Charles Burney, English historian ( d. 1814 )

* 1726 – Francesco Cetti, Italian scientist ( d. 1778 )

* 1673 – John Ker, Scottish spy ( d. 1726 )

* Philip Michael Ellis ( 1652 – 1726 )

* Il quaresimale in epilogo ( 1725 – 1726 )

* 1657 – Michel Richard Delalande, French Baroque composer and organist ( d. 1726 )

* 1726 – Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian ( b. 1665 )

* 1726 – Johann Hartmann, Danish composer ( d. 1793 )

* 1799 – Philip Affleck, British Admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty ( b. 1726 )

* William Alvey Darwin ( 3 October 1726 – 7 October 1783 )

Max Emanuel ( 1662 – 1726 ) by Joseph Vivien.

* 1695 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician ( d. 1726 )

* 1726 – Patrick Russell, Scottish surgeon and naturalist ( d. 1805 )

* 1675 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer ( d. 1726 )

* 1726 – The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.

Telemann returned to Hamburg, but would still supplement his income by taking up additional jobs: in 1723 – 1726 he served as Kapellmeister von Haus aus to the Bayreuth court, and between 1725 and 1730 he acted as corresponding agent to the court at Eisenach, supplying news from northern Europe.

The heresies of Sabbatai Zevi ( 1626 – 1676 ) and Jacob Frank ( 1726 – 1791 ) distorted Lurianic Kabbalah and led to the Jacob Emden # Emden-Eybeschütz controversy | Emden-Eybeschütz Controversy.

* 1677 – Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer ( d. 1726 )

* 1726 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist ( d. 1797 )

* 1653 – Thomas Pitt, English businessman and politician ( d. 1726 )

* 1662 – Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria ( d. 1726 )

James Hutton ( Edinburgh, 3 June 1726 OS – 26 March 1797 ) was a Scottish physician, geologist, naturalist, chemical manufacturer and experimental agriculturalist.

* 1670 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier ( d. 1726 )

James Hutton was born in Edinburgh on 3 June 1726 OS as one of five children of William Hutton, a merchant who was Edinburgh City Treasurer, but who died in 1729 when James was still young.

* March 26 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist ( b. 1726 )

* November 6 – James Bowdoin, American Governor of Massachusetts ( b. 1726 )

# Lady Mary Tudor ( 1673 – 1726 ), married Edward Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Derwentwater ; after Edward's death, she married Henry Graham, and upon his death she married James Rooke.

The Sakalava rulers of this period are known through the memoirs of Europeans such as Robert Drury, James Cook, Barnvelt ( 1719 ), Valentyn ( 1726 ).

Using bricks fired on the Berkeley plantation, Benjamin Harrison IV built a Georgian-style three-story brick mansion on a hill overlooking the James River in 1726.

The cycle was inspired by theories of uniformitarianism first formulated by James Hutton ( 1726 – 1797 ).

* James Hutton ( 1726 – 1797 ) founder of modern geology

* Ditchley, Oxfordshire, ( designed by James Gibbs ) interiors ( c. 1726 )

James Wemyss ( 1726 – 1786 ), third son of the fifth Earl, was a Lieutenant-General in the Army.

James Peter Wolfe was born in the local vicarage on 2 January 1727 ( New Style or 22 December 1726 Old Style ) at Westerham, Kent, the older of two sons of Colonel ( later Lieutenant General ) Edward Wolfe, a veteran soldier of Irish origin, and the former Henrietta Thompson.

The Manor of Belford was acquired by the Dixon family in 1726 and in 1752 Abraham Dixon built a mansion house in a Palladian style to a design by architect James Paine.

* James Hutton ( 1726 – 1797 )

The modern philosophical concept was developed in the 18th century by Scottish geologist James Hutton ( 1726 – 1797 ).

The original development of the square was carried out by Sir James Smith around 1726.

James Bowdoin II ( August 7, 1726 – November 6, 1790 ) was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts during the American Revolution.

* James Moore ( furniture designer ) ( died 1726 ), English cabinet maker

* James Mure-Campbell, 5th Earl of Loudoun ( 1726 – 1786 )

* James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll ( 1726 – 1778 )

Jameson's support for Neptunism, a theory that argued that all rocks had been deposited from a primaeval ocean, initially pitted him against James Hutton ( 1726 – 1797 ), a fellow Scot and eminent geologist also based in Edinburgh ( but not in the university ), who argued for uniformitarianism, a theory that saw the features of the Earth's crust being caused by natural processes over geologic time.

Naushon Island was at one time the property of James Bowdoin III ( 1752 – 1811 ), son of Massachusetts ' governor James Bowdoin II ( 1726 – 1790 ) and appointed by President Thomas Jefferson to serve as the U. S. plenipotentiary to Spain.