Births

• Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish official of the British Empire. As a young man, Johnson came to the Province of New York to manage an estate purchased by his uncle, Admiral Peter Warren, which was located amidst the Mohawk, one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League...
  
  , pioneer and army officer in colonial New York
  Province of New York
  The Province of New York was an English and later British crown territory that originally included all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine, as well as eastern Pennsylvania...
  
   (d.1774
  1774 in Ireland
  -Births:*7 May - Francis Beaufort, hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy, creator of the Beaufort scale .*11 July - Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore, politician and statesman ....
  
  ).
• Patrick Lynch
  Patrick Lynch (Argentina)
  Patrick Lynch, born 1715, was an Irish emigrant who became a significant landowner in Rio de la Plata, which is now part of Argentina. He was born in Galway and was the second son of Patrick Lynch of Lydican Castle and Agnes Blake...
  
  , emigrant to Rio de la Plata, and successful landowner.

Deaths

• 14 December - Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick
  Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick
  Thomas Donegan, 2nd Earl of Limerick was a member of Irish Parliament, Royalist military officer during the English Civil War, and governor of the Province of New York...
  
  , member of Irish Parliament
  Parliament of Ireland
  The Parliament of Ireland was a legislature that existed in Dublin from 1297 until 1800. In its early mediaeval period during the Lordship of Ireland it consisted of either two or three chambers: the House of Commons, elected by a very restricted suffrage, the House of Lords in which the lords...
  
  , Royalist military officer during the English Civil War
  English Civil War
  The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists...
  
   and governor of the Province of New York
  Province of New York
  The Province of New York was an English and later British crown territory that originally included all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine, as well as eastern Pennsylvania...
  
   (b.1634
  1634 in Ireland
  -Events:* Foras Feasa ar Éirinn was completed by Geoffrey Keating in Early Modern Irish...
  
  ).