* 1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist ( d. 1836 )

* 1677 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1748 )

* 1662 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset ( d. 1748 )

* 1686 – John Balguy, English philosopher ( d. 1748 )

* 1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter ( d. 1825 )

Lavoisier's experiments supported the law of conservation of mass, which he was the first to state, although Mikhail Lomonosov ( 1711 – 1765 ) had previously expressed similar ideas in 1748 and proved them in experiments.

* 1748 – Joseph Schuster, German composer ( d. 1812 )

** Volume 3: Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748 – 1757 ( 2008 ), 768pp excerpt and text search

Empress Maria Theresa of Austria was supported by the Croatians in the War of Austrian Succession of 1741 – 1748 and subsequently made significant contributions to Croatian matters.

The University was founded in 1829 following a donation by William Chalmers ( 1748 – 1811 ), a director of the Swedish East India Company, whose ships sailed across the world to supply Europe with goods from the East.

* Jeremy Bentham ( 1748 – 1832 )

**** House of Bourbon-Parma ( 1748 – present )

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

* Patriarch Cyril V of Constantinople, patriarch in 1748 – 1757

Claude Louis Berthollet ( 9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822 ) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804.

His parents were Didier Diderot ( 1675 – 1759 ) a cutler, maître coutelier and his wife Angélique Vigneron ( 1677 – 1748 ).

Diderot's earliest works included a translation of Temple Stanyan's History of Greece ( 1743 ); with two colleagues, François-Vincent Toussaint and Marc-Antoine Eidous, he produced a translation of Robert James's Medicinal Dictionary ( 1746 – 1748 ); at about the same time he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit ( 1745 ), with some original notes of his own.

* 1748 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician ( b. 1662 )

* 1748 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist ( d. 1822 )

Jacques-Louis David (; ) ( 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825 ) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.

* 1748 – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher ( d. 1830 )

* June 6 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher ( b. 1748 )

Jeremy Bentham (; 15 February 1748 – 6 June 1832 ) was an English philosopher, jurist and social reformer.

* Jeremy Bentham ( 1748 – 1832 ), English philosopher

* Jeremy Bentham ( 1748 – 1832 )

* Jeremy Bentham ( 1748 – 1832 )

The idea of a feudal state or period, in the sense of either a regime or a period dominated by lords who possess financial or social power and prestige, became widely held in middle of the 18th century, thanks to works such as Montesquieu's De L ' Esprit des Lois ( 1748 ; published in English as The Spirit of the Laws ), and Henri de Boulainvilliers ’ s Histoire des anciens Parlements de France ( 1737 ; published in English as An Historical Account of the Antient Parliaments of France or States-General of the Kingdom, 1739 ).

* 1748 – Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer ( b. 1692 )

* 1748 – John Balguy, English philosopher ( b. 1686 )

* August 13 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician ( d. 1748 )

* February 28 – Thomas Holloway, English portrait painter and engraver ( b. 1748 )

* August 12 – John Balguy, English philosopher ( d. 1748 )

* July 17 – Isaac Watts, English hymnist ( d. 1748 )

* John Boles Watson ( c. 1748 – 1813 ), English theatre builder

William Kent ( c. 1685 – 12 April 1748 ), born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, was an eminent English architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century.

William Kent ( 1685 – 1748 ), who took a leading role in designing the gardens, created one of the earliest examples of the English landscape garden on the property.

Europeans first began to settle in the region in 1748, when the first Ohio Company, an English land speculation company, won a grant of 200, 000 acres ( 800 km² ) in the upper Ohio Valley.

John Balguy ( August 12, 1686 – September 21, 1748 ) was an English divine and philosopher.

To say nothing of minor opponents, such as " Philaretus " ( Gilbert Burnet, already alluded to ), Dr John Balguy ( 1686 – 1748 ), prebendary of Salisbury, the author of two tracts on " The Foundation of Moral Goodness ", and Dr John Taylor ( 1694 – 1761 ) of Norwich, a minister of considerable reputation in his time ( author of An Examination of the Scheme of Amorality advanced by Dr Hutcheson ), the essays appear to have suggested, by antagonism, at least two works that hold a permanent place in the literature of English ethics — Butler's Dissertation on the Nature of Virtue, and Richard Price's Treatise of Moral Good and Evil ( 1757 ).

He published an account of the people and countries he had encountered during the French Geodesic Mission ( 1748 ), which was translated into English as A Voyage to South America.

William Shield ( 5 March 1748 – 25 January 1829 ) was an English composer, violinist and violist who was born in Swalwell near Gateshead, the son of William Shield and his wife, Mary, née Cash.

Isaac Watts ( 17 July 1674 – 25 November 1748 ) was an English hymnwriter, theologian and logician.

The word picnic first appeared in English in a letter of the Gallicized Lord Chesterfield in 1748 ( OED ), who associates it with card-playing, drinking and conversation, and may have entered the English language from this French word.

* ‘ A Catalogue of English Heads, or an account of about two thousand prints describing what is particular on each ; as the name, title, or office of the person, the habit, posture, age or time when done, the name of the painter, graver, scraper, & c., and some remarkable particulars relating to their lives ,’ London, 1748.