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Year 1726 (MDCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1726
January–June
July–December
Dates Unknown
Births
- January 14 – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, French supporter of the American Revolution (d. 1803)
- March 8 – Richard Howe, British admiral (d. 1799)
- April 5 – Benjamin Harrison V, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
- April 12 – Charles Burney, English music historian (d. 1814)
- April 20 – Joseph de Ferraris, Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands (d. 1814)
- May 12 – Alexander Hood, British naval officer (d. 1814)
- June 3 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
- June 14 – Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist (d. 1798)
- June 20 – Louise Henriette de Bourbon, mother of Philippe Égalité (d.1759)
- July 30 – William Jones (ecclesiastic), (d.1800)
- August 7 – James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790)
- August 9 – Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778)
- September 1 – François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess player (d. 1795)
- October 16 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
Dates Unknown
Deaths
- January 2 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
- January 25 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
- February 26 – Maximilian II Emanuel, elector of Bavaria (b. 1662)
- March 5 – Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
- March 26 – John Vanbrugh, English architect and dramatist (b. 1664)
- April 26 – Jeremy Collier, English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (b. 1650)
- April 28 – Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653)
- May 10 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (b. 1670)
- June 18 – Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
- July 8 – John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
- July 22 – Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia
- July 31 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
- November 23 – Sophia, Princess of Zelle, queen of George I of Great Britain (b. 1666)
- December 2 – Samuel Penhallow, American colonist and historian (b. 1665)
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