* 1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer ( d. 1747 )

Ahmad Shah Durrani ( c. 1722 – 1773 ) ( Pashto /), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī ( Pashto / Persian: احمد شاه ابدالي ) and born as Ahmad < u > Kh </ u > ān, was the founder of the Durrani Empire ( Afghan Empire ) in 1747 and is regarded by many to be the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan .</ poem >

* 1666 – Jean-Féry Rebel, French composer and violinist ( d. 1747 )

* 1747 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal ( b. 1676 )

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

An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was effected by John Richardson ( 1664 – 1747 ) and published in 1712.

Notable late-classical deists include Peter Annet ( 1693 – 1769 ), Thomas Chubb ( 1679 – 1747 ), Thomas Morgan (?– 1743 ), and Conyers Middleton ( 1683 – 1750 ).

* 1747 – John Thomas Duckworth, Royal Navy admiral ( d. 1817 )

Francis was a son of the future Emperor Leopold II ( 1747 – 1792 ) and his wife Maria Luisa of Spain ( 1745 – 1792 ), daughter of Charles III of Spain.

Michel Maittaire ( 1667 – 1747 ) and Georg Wolfgang Panzer ( 1729 – 1805 ) arranged printed material chronologically in annals format, and in the first half of the nineteenth century, Ludwig Hain published, Repertorium bibliographicum — a checklist of incunabula arranged alphabetically by author: " Hain numbers " are still a reference point.

* 1747 – John Aikin, English doctor and writer ( d. 1822 )

* 1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.

* 1673 – Antonio de Literes, Spanish composer ( d. 1747 )

* 1676 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal ( d. 1747 )

* 1747 – John Paul Jones, American navy commander ( d. 1792 )

* 1747 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet ( b. 1680 )

* 1670 – Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian composer ( d. 1747 )

Johann Elert Bode ( 19 January 1747 – 23 November 1826 ) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius-Bode law.

* John Walker ( clerical historian ) ( 1674 – 1747 ), English clergyman and ecclesiastical historian

* 1743 – 1747: Abdallah II ( 5 règne )

Vincent Bourne, familiarly known as Vinny Bourne ( 1695, Westminster – December 2, 1747 ) was an English classical scholar.

Earliest known use of the term identified by the Oxford English Dictionary is 1747.

In 1747, a group of Virginian speculators formed the Ohio Company, with the backing of the British crown, to start English settlement and trade in the Ohio Country west of the Appalachian Mountains.

* March 25 – Anna Seward, English writer ( b. 1747 )

* Samuel Parr, English schoolmaster & author, 1747 – 1825

* William Seward, English anecdotist, 1747 – 1799

Also as a scholar, Arbuthnot took up an interest in antiquities and published Tables of Grecian, Roman, and Jewish measures, weights and coins ; reduced to the English standard in 1705, 1707, 1709, and, expanded with a preface ( which indicated that his second son, Charles, was born in 1705 ), in 1727 and 1747.

Greek workers familiar with the methods of its production were brought to France in 1747, and Dutch and English spies soon discovered the secret.

William Coxe ( 17 March 1747 – 8 June 1828 ) was an English churchman and historian.

Samuel Parr ( 26 January 1747 – 6 March 1825 ), was an English schoolmaster, writer, minister and Doctor of Law.

The Second Battle of Cape Finisterre in October 1747. The Western Squadron was a new strategy by Britain's naval planners to operate a more effective blockade system of France by stationing the Home Fleet in the Western Approaches, where they could guard both the English channel and the French Atlantic coast.

John Aikin ( 15 January 1747 – 7 December 1822 ) was an English doctor and writer.

Edmund Curll ( c. 1675 – 11 December 1747 ) was an English bookseller and publisher.

* John Lewis ( antiquarian ) ( 1675 – 1747 ), English clergyman

He is most famous for his book, An account of English ants, published in London by A. Millar in 1747.

Anna Seward ( 12 December 1747 – 25 March 1809 ) was an English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield.

The original work by Baker had been based on Gerard Langbaine the Younger's Account of the English Dramatick Poets ( 1691 ), Giles Jacob's Poetical Register ( 1719 ), Thomas Whincop's List of all the Dramatic Authors ( printed with his tragedy of Scanderbeg, 1747 ) and the manuscripts of Thomas Coxeter.

* Samuel Johnson: Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language, 1747

The 3rd Earl of Ailesbury ( and 4th Earl of Elgin ) was created Baron Bruce, of Tottenham in the County of Wilts, on 17 April 1746, in the Peerage of Great Britain, but on his death in 1747, his English titles became extinct, except for the 1746 Barony of Bruce, which was inherited by his nephew Thomas Brudenell, fourth and youngest son of the 3rd Earl of Cardigan, by special remainder.

de l ' Académie des Sciences, 1745 ( English translation 1745 – 1747 ).

In 1748 Bertram petitioned the king to be permitted to give public lectures on the English language, and he became a teacher of English in the Royal Marine Academy at Copenhagen ( some accounts say he was a professor, rather than a tutor of students ; if so, that would be some years later, as he was a new undergraduate in 1747 ).

* Thomas Barnes ( Unitarian ) ( 1747 – 1810 ), English Unitarian minister and educational reformer