* 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 – 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 )

* July 2 – Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian ( d. 1726 )

When Wright returned in 1726 with companions Robert Barber and Samuel Blunston, they began developing the area, Wright building a house about a hundred yards from the edge of the Susquehanna River in the area of today's South Second and Union Streets.

In 1726 Hogarth prepared twelve large engravings for Samuel Butler's Hudibras.

In 1726, Samuel Grant traded his farm in Bolton for in the northern part of Bolton.

* July 2 – Samuel Penhallow ( died 1726 )

Samuel Whiting as minister there in 1726, marrying Rev.

Published in 1726 and aimed at Samuel Molyneux, it rhymes " hare " with " hair ", and " coney " with " cunny ".

Samuel Penhallow ( July 2, 1665 – December 2, 1726 ) was a Cornish colonist and historian in early American.

Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, KB ( 2 December 1726 – 2 May 1814 ) was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, and the brother of Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood.

In 1714 Penhallow was appointed a justice of the superior court of judicature, and from 1717 until his death was chief justice of that court ; and he also served as treasurer of the province in 1699 – 1726, and as secretary of the province in 1714 – 1726.

* May 26 – Nathaniel Folsom, American Continental Congressman for New Hampshire and Revolutionary War major general ( b. 1726 )

* November 6 – James Bowdoin, American Governor of Massachusetts ( b. 1726 )

* September 27 – William Gibbons, American lawyer and revolutionary ( b. 1726 )

* Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, French Father of the American Revolution ( b. 1726 )

* January 12 – Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer ( mortally wounded in battle ) ( b. 1726 )

Benjamin Harrison V ( April 5, 1726 – April 24, 1791 ) was an American planter and revolutionary leader from Charles City County, Virginia.

His father, a merchant and farmer known as Major Timothy Dwight, was born May 27, 1726, graduated from Yale in 1744, served in the American Revolutionary War, and died June 10, 1777.

Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont ( 1726 – 1803 ) was a French " Father of the American Revolution ", but later an opponent of the French Revolution.

Admiral of the Fleet Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe KG ( 8 March 1726 – 5 August 1799 ) was a British naval officer, notable in particular for his service during the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary Wars.

* Simon Fraser of Lovat ( 1726 – 1782 ), Jacobite leader and British general during the Seven Years ' War and American Revolutionary War

William Prescott ( February 20, 1726 – October 13, 1795 ) was an American colonel in the Revolutionary War who commanded the rebel forces in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

* Nathaniel Folsom ( 1726 – 1790 ), American merchant and statesman

Abraham Clark ( February 15, 1726 – September 15, 1794 ) was an American politician and Revolutionary War figure.

George Wythe ( 1726 – June 8, 1806 ) was an American lawyer, a Virginia judge, and a prominent opponent of slavery.

United Brethren In Christ was an American religious sect which originated in the last part of the 18th century under the leadership of Philip William Otterbein ( 1726 – 1813 ), pastor of the Second Reformed Church in Baltimore, and Martin Boehm ( 1725 – 1812 ), a Pennsylvanian Mennonite of Swiss descent.

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.

James Bowdoin II ( August 7, 1726 – November 6, 1790 ) was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts during the American Revolution.

* John Ross ( American patriot ) ( 1726 – 1800 ), figure in the American Revolution

Nathaniel Folsom ( September 28, 1726, Exeter, New Hampshire – May 26, 1790, Exeter, New Hampshire ) was an American merchant and statesman.