1717 in Literature - Births

Births

  • February 14 - Richard Owen Cambridge, author (died 1802)
  • February 19 - David Garrick, actor (died 1779)
  • September 24 - Horace Walpole, English writer (died 1797)
  • November 16 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician and encyclopædist (died 1783)
  • December 9 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, art historian (died 1768)
  • December 16 - Elizabeth Carter, poet, classicist, writer and translator (died 1806)

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