Year 1719 (MDCCXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1719 [edit] January–June [edit] July–December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing events [edit] Births - January 2 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (d. 1797)
- January 3
- January 17 – William Vernon, American merchant (d. 1806)
- January 22 – Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge (d. 1769)
- January 23 – John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
- January 28 – Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)
- March 4 – George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
- March 13 – John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (d. 1797)
- April 2 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (d. 1803)
- April 9 – Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet, English politician (d. 1804)
- April 24 – Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti, Italian literary critic (d. 1789)
- May 30 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)
- June 28 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
- July 4 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)
- August 4 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (d. 1767)
- August 20
- August 25 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795)
- September 6 – Somerset Hamilton Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick (d. 1754)
- September 11 – Tanuma Okitsugu, Japanese government official (d. 1788)
- September 27 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (d. 1800)
- October 13 – Marco Coltellini, Italian librettist (d. 1777)
- October 17 – Jacques Cazotte, French writer (d. 1792)
- October 20 – Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (d. 1772)
- November 6 – Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, French writer (d. 1803)
- November 14 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1787)
- November 23 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
- November 30 – Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
- December 15 – Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1742)
- date unknown
[edit] Deaths - January 15 – Tikhon Streshnev, Russian boyar (born 1649)
- March 1 – Richard Ingoldesby, British soldier and colonial governor
- April 7 – Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer (born 1651)
- April 15 – Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (born 1635)
- April 21 – Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1640)
- May 17 – Laurentius Christophori Hornæus, Swedish witch hunter (born 1645)
- May 29 – Sir Alexander Seton, 1st Baronet, Scottish judge
- June 17 – Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (born 1672)
- July 5
- July 17 – Elinor James, British pamphleteer (born 1644)
- July 22 – Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Italian painter and engraver (born 1654)
- September 7 – John Harris (writer), English writer (born c.1666)
- September 21 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (born 1647)
- September 27 – George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (born 1662)
- October 27 – François Baert, Belgian hagiographer (born 1651)
- November 8 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician (born 1652)
- December 2 – Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (born 1634)
- November 26 – John Hudson, English classical scholar (born 1662)
- December 31 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer (born 1646)
- date unknown
- ^ "Le Moyne de Bienville, Jean-Baptiste", University of Toronto, 2000, webpage: biog-ca-Bienville.
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