* 1730 – Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher ( d. 1788 )

* 1730 – Henry Clinton, English general ( d. 1795 )

Ahmed voluntarily led his nephew Mahmud I ( 1730 – 54 ) to the seat of sovereignty and paid allegiance to him as Sultan of the Empire.

* Peter Alexeievich Romanov ( 23 October 1715 – 30 January 1730 )

* 1730 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.

* 1644 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier ( d. 1730 )

** Volume 1: Journalist, 1706 – 1730 ( 2005 ) 568pp excerpt and text search

** Volume 2: Printer and Publisher, 1730 – 1747 ( 2005 ) 664pp ; excerpt and text search

François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi, Marshal of France, ( 1644 – 1730 ) by Alexandre-François Caminade.

The museum ’ s first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton ( 1730 – 1803 ), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.

French mathematician Étienne Bézout ( 1730 – 1783 ) proved this identity for polynomials.

* Chemistry ( 1730 ) – the art of resolving mixed, compound, or aggregate bodies into their principles ; and of composing such bodies from those principles ( Stahl ).

* 1730 – Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist and botanist ( d. 1799 )

* 1730 – Capel Bond, English organist and composer ( d. 1790 )

* John Darwin, rector of Elston ( 28 September 1730 – 24 May 1805 )

IR spectra for esters feature an intense sharp band in the range 1730 – 1750 cm < sup >− 1 </ sup > assigned to ν < sub > C = O </ sub >.

* 1648 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England ( d. 1730 )

* 1730 – Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti, Austrian composer ( d. c. 1793 )

* 1649 – Pope Benedict XIII ( d. 1730 )

The gegenschein was first described by the French Jesuit astronomer and professor Esprit Pézenas ( 1692 – 1776 ) in 1730.

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.

Peter I was succeeded by his second wife ( Catherine I, 1725 – 1728 ) who was merely a figure-head for a powerful group of high officials, then by his minor grandson ( Peter II, 1728 – 1730 ), then by his niece, Anna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V. In 1741 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, seized the throne, assisted by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

The percentage of the children born in London who died before the age of five decreased from 74. 5 % in 1730 – 1749 to 31. 8 % in 1810 – 1829.

Antonín Kammel ( April 21, 1730 Běleč, now Czech Republic – 1788 London ) was a composer and violinist.

* date unknown – Antonin Kammel, violinist and composer ( b. 1730 )

* 1730 – Jackson of Exeter, English organist and composer ( d. 1803 )

* 1687 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, French born Baroque composer and violin virtuoso ( d. 1730 )

* André Danican Philidor ( André I, " l ' aîné ") ( c. 1652 – 1730 ), son of Jean, composer of the Marche française ( Marche royale ) ( 1679 )

Leonardo Vinci ( 1690 – 27 May 1730 ) was an Italian composer, best known for his operas.

** Giovanni Valentini, composer, poet and painter ( b. c. 1730 )

* October 6 – Antonio Sacchini, composer ( b. 1730 )

* February 2 – Frantisek Kotzwara, double bassist and composer ( b. 1730 ) ( erotic asphyxiation )

He returned to Vienna in autumn 1730, and early in the following year he successfully applied for a post as court composer, the formal beginning of a lifetime of service at the Habsburg court.

* 1730 – Charles Messier, French astronomer ( d. 1817 )

* 1730 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, founded the Wedgwood Company ( d. 1795 )

* 1730 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1782 )

A French translation of the second volume by P. T. d ' Antelmy, with additions by Charles Bossut ( 1730 – 1814 ), was published in Paris in 1775 ; and an English translation of the whole work by John Colson ( 1680 – 1760 ), the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, " inspected " by John Hellins, was published in 1801 at the expense of Baron Maseres.

* 1730 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician ( d. 1783 )

* 1671 – Frederick IV of Denmark ( d. 1730 )

* 1715 – Tsar Peter II of Russia ( d. 1730 )

* February 23 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England ( d. 1730 )

* April 7 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier ( d. 1730 )

* March 28 – Samuel Sewall, English-born judge ( d. 1730 )

* October 11 – King Frederick IV of Denmark ( d. 1730 )

* February 2 – Pope Benedict XIII ( d. 1730 )

In a full-blown Rococo design, like the Table d ' appartement ( c. 1730 ), by German designer J.

* July 2 – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councillor ( d. 1730 )