* 1669 – Eudoxia Lopukhina, Russian wife of Peter the Great ( d. 1731 )

Others who anticipated the work of Lavoisier include Jean Rey ( 1583 – 1645 ), Joseph Black ( 1728 – 1799 ), and Henry Cavendish ( 1731 – 1810 ).

* 7 Dukes and Duchess of Parma ( 1731 – 1735, 1748 – 1802, 1814 – 1859 )

** Erasmus Darwin ( 1731 – 1802 ), physician and biologist, grandfather of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

1659 – 1661 to 24 April 1731 ),

* 1731 – František Xaver Dušek, Czech composer ( d. 1799 )

:* William Godolphin, Marquess of Blandford ( 1700 – 1731 ), elder son of the 2nd Duchess, predeceased his mother without issue

Erasmus Darwin ( 12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802 ) was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King.

* 1672 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist ( d. 1731 )

* 1731 – 1771: Frederick William, Prince in Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt ( son of )

* 1731 – Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan English admiral ( d. 1804 )

* 1731 – Samuel Huntington, American politician, 3rd Governor of Connecticut and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1796 )

James Jr's mother, Nelly Conway Madison ( 1731 – 1829 ), was born at Port Conway, the daughter of a prominent planter and tobacco merchant and his wife.

* John Walker ( natural historian ) ( 1731 – 1803 ), Scottish naturalist

* 1802 – Martha Washington, American wife of George Washington, 1st First Lady of the United States ( b. 1731 )

* 1731 – Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.

* 1731 – Benjamin Banneker, African-American astrononomer ( d. 1806 )

* 1731 – Henry Cavendish, British scientist ( d. 1810 )

The Olney Hymns () were first published in February 1779, and are the combined work of curate John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ) and his poet friend, William Cowper ( 1731 – 1800 ).

Daniel Defoe died on 24 April 1731, probably while in hiding from his creditors.

* Defoe, Daniel 1661 ?- 1731 WorldCat Identity

* September – Daniel Defoe, English writer ( d. 1731 )

However, these three statues were later speculatively ' identified ' by the writer Daniel Defoe ( 1659 – 1731 ) as Caesar ( 100 – 44 BC ) and Pompey ( 106 – 48 BC ) responsible for the decline of the Roman republic facing a statue of Cicero ( 106 – 43 BC ), the defender of the Republic.

* Daniel Defoe ( 1661 – 1731 ), author of Robinson Crusoe

In a more profane manner, the hero or heroine follows a picaresque itinerary such as in Miguel de Cervantes ( 1547 – 16 ), Daniel Defoe ( 1660 – 1731 ), Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 1764 ) and Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 1771 ).

Daniel Defoe ( 1660 – 1731 ) describes the state of the harbour and its approaches, saying that " Rye would flourish again, if her harbour, which was once able to receive the royal navy, cou'd be restor'd … " but that he thought it very doubtful that large ships would be able to use the port again.

* Daniel Foe ( 17th-century – 1731 ), original name of British author Daniel Defoe

Daniel Waters ( June 20, 1731 – March 26, 1816 ) was an officer in the Continental Navy and in the United States Navy.

* Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, died in the parish, 1731

* Daniel Waters ( 1731 – 1816 ), officer in the United States Navy.

In 1731, Boerhaave brought out a new edition, of which the text and Latin version had been printed before the appearance of Wigan's ; this edition contains annotations by Pierre Petit and Daniel Wilhelm Triller.

Frances was the third daughter of MP and government official Daniel Pulteney ( 1684 – 1731 ) and first cousin once removed of William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath.

Also controversial tracts against Willis ( 1705 ), Sherlock ( 1707 ), Bennet ( 1718 ), Tong and others ( 1719 ), Trosse ( 1719 ), and Daniel Waterland ( 1731 ).

* September-Daniel Defoe ( died 1731 )

* May 13 – Beilby Porteus, English bishop and abolitionist ( b. 1731 )

** William Cowper, English poet ( b. 1731 )

* April 18 – Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist ( b. 1731 )

* August 18 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician ( d. 1731 )

For the original 1731 version of the novel, Helen Waddell's ( 1931 ) is considered the best of the English translations.

Later in his career, in 1731, he played the role of Polypheme in the first public performance of Acis and Galatea, and several of Handel's Italian arias were published with English translations by Leveridge.

The first true bourgeois tragedy was an English play, George Lillo's The London Merchant ; or, the History of George Barnwell, which was first performed in 1731.

The War of Jenkins ' Ear ( named for a 1731 incident in which a Spanish commander chopped off the ear of English merchant captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his king, George II ) broke out in 1739 between Spain and Great Britain, but was confined to the Caribbean Sea and conflict between Spanish Florida and the neighboring British Province of Georgia.

* Thomas Beckwith, F. A. S ( 1731 – 1786 ) English painter, genealogist and antiquary.

William Cowper ( ; 26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800 ) was an English poet and hymnodist.

Brook Taylor FRS ( 18 August 1685 – 29 December 1731 ) was an English mathematician who is best known for Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series.

The first lodge was the English Lodge (" La Loggia degli Inglesi ") in Florence, founded in 1731., and Freemasonry quickly spread, in spite of a series of Papal bans.

In 1730 English dramatist Henry Fielding used Tom Thumb as the central figure of a play by that name, which he rewrote in 1731 as The Tragedy of Tragedies, or the History of Tom Thumb the Great.

* William Stanley ( priest ) ( 1647 – 1731 ), English academic, Archdeacon of London and Dean of St Asaph

His most important original works are: Les Vies des poètes Grecs ( 1665 ); Méthode pour commencer les humanités Grecques et latines ( 2nd ed., 1731 ), of which several English adaptations have appeared ; and Epistolae Criticae ( 1659 ).

His guest was William Cowper ( English poet and hymnodist ( 1731 – 1800 )) and the town hosts the Cowper and Newton Museum dedicated to them.

* February 24-Henry Cavendish, English physicist and chemist ( born 1731 ).

* August 18-Brook Taylor, English mathematician ( died 1731 )

English speaking colonists in the area were more inclined towards the Calvert proprietorship, albeit Penn's religion and one of these men was the Irish Quaker forefather ( James Nixon, 1731 arrival ) of future President Richard Nixon, while House Minority Leader, and presidential successor, Gerald Ford owed his roots to a forefather not so distant, from Philadelphia, of the Devonshire King family.

Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS ( 28 July 1674 – 28 August 1731 ) was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences.

John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton ( 18 October 1731 – 18 August 1783 ) was an English lawyer and politician.