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

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

* 1726 – James Bowdoin, American politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1790 )

* 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 )

In 1726, he also visited Parma and Milan, where Johann Joachim Quantz heard him and commented: " Farinelli had a penetrating, full, rich, bright and well-modulated soprano voice, with a range at that time from the A below middle C to the D two octaves above middle C. ... His intonation was pure, his trill beautiful, his breath control extraordinary and his throat very agile, so that he performed the widest intervals quickly and with the greatest ease and certainty.

Since Pithou's edition in 1596 Phaedrus has been often edited and translated ; among the editions may be mentioned those of Burmann ( 1718 and 1727 ), Richard Bentley ( 1726 ), Schwabe ( 1806 ), Berger de Xivrey ( 1830 ), Johann Caspar von Orelli ( 1832 ), Franz Eyssenhardt ( 1867 ), L. Müller ( 1877 ), Rica ( 1885 ), and above all that of Louis Havet ( Paris, 1895 ).

In 1726, the Swiss physician Johann Jakob Scheuchzer described a fossil as Homo diluvii testis ( Latin: Evidence of a diluvian human ), believing it to be the remains of a human being that drowned in the biblical Deluge.

** Johann Becker, organist and composer ( born 1726 )

Although they were not premillennial, the English theologian Daniel Whitby ( 1688 – 1726 ), the German Johann Albrecht Bengel ( 1687 – 1752 ), and the American Jonathan Edwards ( 1703 – 58 ) “ fueled millennial ideas with new influence in the nineteenth century .” It was authors such as these who concluded that the decline of the Roman Catholic Church would make way for the conversion and restoration of the nation of Israel.

* October 21 – Johann Hartmann, composer ( b. 1726 )

Translation of: Beringer, Johann ; Hueber, George Ludwig ( 1726 ).

He then moved from Basel to Amsterdam, where another relative, Johann Heinrich Wettstein ( 1649 – 1726 ), had had an important printing and publishing business.

Schlözer, who in 1769 married Caroline Roederer, daughter of Johann Georg Roederer ( 1726 – 1763 ), professor of medicine at Göttingen and body physician to the king of England, left five children.

In 1726, the Prince-Bishop of Basel, Johann Konrad von Reinach-Hirzbach, attempted to modernize and consolidate his extensive land holdings.

A further three survived into adulthood: Elisabeth Juliane Friederica ( 1726 – 1781 ) who married Bach's pupil Johann Christoph Altnikol, Johanna Carolina ( 1737 – 1781 ) and Regina Susanna ( 1742 – 1809 )

His maternal grandfather, Andreas Gottlieb Bernstorff ( 1640 – 1726 ), had been one of the ablest ministers of George I and the head of the German Chancery, and under his guidance Johann was very carefully educated, acquiring amongst other things that intimate knowledge of the leading European languages, especially French, which ever afterwards distinguished him.

Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein, born Franz de Paula Joseph Johann Nepomuk Andreas ( 19 November 1726 – 18 August 1781 ), was the Prince of Liechtenstein from 1772 until his death.

Nicolaus II Bernoulli, a. k. a. Niklaus Bernoulli, Nikolaus Bernoulli, ( February 6, 1695, Basel, Switzerland – July 31, 1726, St. Petersburg, Russia ) was a Swiss mathematician as were his father Johann Bernoulli and one of his brothers, Daniel Bernoulli.

At Duntes Muiža, Latvia ( German name: Dunteshof ), home of Münchhausen's first wife Jacobine von Dunten ( 1726 – 1790 ), a Münchhausen Museum was opened up in 2005.

Christian Frederick ( h ) Schwarz ( also Schwartz ) ( 1726 – 1798 ) was a German Lutheran Protestant missionary to India.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, engraving from the German edition of 1726 of The Old and New Testament connected.

1726 – December 26, 1776 ) was a German colonel, best known for being in command of Hessian troops in Trenton, New Jersey at the Battle of Trenton during the American War of Independence.

* Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch ( 1726 – 1784 ), German theologian