Anniversarial — 2021
1721
Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2021:
Births
- Akenside, Mark (born 1721–died 1770), English physician, poet, academician
- Angus, Alexander (born 1721–died 1802), Scottish bookseller
- Arnaud, père François, abbé de Grandchamp (born 1721–died 1784), French churchman, journalist, academician
- Baillie, Dorothea [née Hunter] (born 1721–died 1806), Scottish home-maker
- Blacklock, Thomas (born 1721–died 1791), Scottish poet, essayist, schoolteacher
- Bontems, François Louis (born 1721–died 1815), Swiss businessman
- Britard, Jean Baptiste (born 1721–died 1791), French actor
- Carnac, John (born 1721–died 1800), English army officer, soldier, East India Company official, politician, member of Parliament, academician
- Cary, Archibald (born 1721–died 1787), American politician
- Cathcart, Charles, 9th Baron Cathcart (born 1721–died 1776), Scottish army officer, diplomat
- Constable, William (born 1721–died 1791), English gentleman, botanist, academician
- Cowper, Major William (born c. 1721–died 1769), English militia officer
- Deleyre, Alexandre (born 1721–died 1797), French diplomat, librarian, politician, revolutionary, archivist
- Devens, Richard (born 1721–died 1807), American [unknown occupation]
- Douglas, Reverend John, bishop of Salisbury (born 1721–died 1807), Scottish churchman
- Dowdeswell, William (born 1721–died 1775), English politician, member of Parliament
- Du Bus, Pierre Louis [“Préville”] (born 1721–died 1799), French actor, academician
- Dyer, Eliphalet (born 1721–died 1807), American politician, lawyer
- Elphinston, James (born 1721–died 1809), Scottish schoolteacher, spelling reformer
- Ewing, Maskell (born 1721–died 1796), American farmer, police-officer, judge
- Fawkes, Francis (born 1721–died 1777), English author, poet, translator
- Fielding, Sir John (born 1721–died 1780), English magistrate, social reformer
- Findlay, Robert (born 1721–died 1814), Scottish churchman, theologian
- Fischer, Johann Friedrich (born 1721), Swiss author, legal author
- Francklin, Reverend Thomas (born 1721–died 1784), English churchman, academic, writer, translator, dramatist
- Galitzin, Prince Dimitri Mikhailovich (born 1721–died 1793), Russian prince, diplomat
- Guys, Pierre Augustin (born 1721–died 1799), French merchant, travel-writer
- Hampton, James (born 1721–died 1778), English churchman, translator
- Hård, Johan Ludvig (born 1721–died 1798), Swedish soldier, army officer
- Hesse-Darmstadt, Caroline Henrietta Christiana von, landgravine von Hesse-Darmstadt [née von Zweibrücken] (born 1721–died 1774), German aristocrat
- Hewett, John [née Thornhagh] (born 1721–died 1787), English politician, member of Parliament
- Hill, Astraea (born after 1721), English home-maker
- Huber, Jean (born 1721–died 1786), Swiss painter
- Jones, Henry (born 1721–died 1770), Irish author, playwright, poet
- Kilner, Joseph (born c. 1721–died 1793), English academic, historian
- Kléro de Rosbo, François Jacques (born 1721–died 1790), French sea captain
- Klüpffel, Emmanuel Christoffel (born 1721–died 1776), German churchman, Protestant, editor
- La Garde, Marie Louise de, marquise de Polignac (born 1721–died 1779), French aristocrat
- Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de (born 1721–died 1794), French lawyer, academician, civil servant
- Le Monnier, père Guillaume Antoine, abbé Le Monnier (born 1721–died 1797), French churchman, Catholic, choir master, author, translator, poet
- Le Normant d’Etioles, Jeanne Antoinette, marquise de Pompadour [née Poisson] (born 1721–died 1764), French mistress
- Levasseur, Marie Thérèse [née Renout] (born 1721–died 1801), French literary executor
- Leveson-Gower, Granville, 1st marquess of Stafford (born 1721–died 1803), English politician, member of Parliament, landowner
- Longaunay, Alexandre de, comte de Longaunay (born 1721–died 1781), French aristocrat, soldier
- McKinly, John (born 1721–died 1796), American physician, state governor
- Maillet Du Clairon, Antoine (born 1721–died 1809), French author, playwright
- Marin, François Louis Claude (born 1721–died 1809), French censor, journalist, scholar, civil servant, academic, editor
- Marschall, Friedrich Wilhelm von, baron von Marschall (born 1721–died 1802), German Moravian, colonist, missionary, church administrator
- Maynon d’Invault, Étienne (born 1721–died 1801), French judge, government minister
- Méhégan, Guillaume Alexandre de, chevalier de Méhégan (born 1721–died 1766), French author, historian, satirist, novelist
- Le Mercure (founded 1721), French newspaper
- Mulford, John (born 1721–died 1814), English clockmaker, surgeon, tradesman
- Nicolay, père Aymard François Chrétien Michel de, bishop of Verdun (born 1721–died 1769), French churchman
- Panin, Count Petr Ivanovich (born 1721–died 1789), Russian aristocrat, army officer
- Pendleton, Edmund (born 1721–died 1803), American plantation-owner, politician, lawyer, judge
- Potter, Reverend Robert (born 1721–died 1804), English churchman, poet, translator, classicist, literary critic
- Randolph, Peyton (born 1721–died 1775), American lawyer, judge, politician, civil servant
- Rieu, Henri (born 1721–died 1787), Swiss army officer, translator, Dutch East India Company official
- Rivers-Gay, Sir Peter, 6th baronet (born c. 1721–died 1790), English churchman, antiquarian
- Robertson, Reverend William (born 1721–died 1793), Scottish author, historian, university administrator
- Salusbury, Lady Sarah Burroughs [née King] (born 1721–died 1804), English home-maker
- Seymour Conway, Field Marshall Henry (born 1721–died 1795), English soldier, army officer, government minister
- Sherman, Roger (born 1721–died 1793), American merchant, politician
- Smollett, Tobias (born 1721–died 1771), Scottish physician, surgeon, sailor, novelist, historian, travel-writer
- Stanley, Hans (born 1721–died 1780), English politician, member of Parliament
- Suckow, Simon Gabriel (born 1721–died 1786), German [unknown occupation]
- Talbot, Catherine (born 1721–died 1770), English essayist, poet
- Tavel, Frédéric Salomon de (born 1721–died 1780), Dutch tutor, civil servant
- Tayloe, John (born 1721–died 1779), American politician
- Vieusseux, Jacques (born 1721–died 1792), Swiss draper, politician, tradesman
- Wegelin, Jacob (born 1721–died 1791), Swiss university teacher, historian
- Wilkie, William (born 1721–died 1772), Scottish author, poet, churchman, university teacher
- Zinzendorf, Ludwig Friedrich Julius von, graf von Zinzendorf (born 1721–died 1780), Austrian author, economist
Deaths
- Anisson, Jean (born 1642–died 1721), French printer, publisher
- Clement XI, pope (born 1649–died 1721), Italian pope
- Craggs, James [the elder] (born 1657–died 1721), English politician, member of Parliament, businessman, clothier
- Craggs, James [the younger] (born 1686–died 1721), English diplomat, politician, member of Parliament
- Keill, John (born 1671–died 1721), Scottish scientist, astronomer, academician
- Mapletoft, John (born 1631–died 1721), English physician, churchman, academician
- Masham, Esther (born c. 1675–died after 1721), English home-maker
- Musgrave, William (born 1655–died 1721), English physician, antiquarian, academician
- Palaprat, Jean (born 1650–died 1721), French author, playwright, servant
- Pratt, Benjamin (born c. 1669–died 1721), Irish university administrator
- Prior, Matthew (born 1664–died 1721), English author, poet, diplomat, politician, member of Parliament, academician
- Rich, Edward Henry, 7th earl of Warwick (born 1698–died 1721), English aristocrat
- Sheffield, John, 1st duke of Buckingham (born 1647–died 1721), English politician, poet
- Stanhope, James, 1st Earl Stanhope (born 1673–died 1721), English army officer, diplomat, politician, member of Parliament
- Trelawny, Reverend Sir Jonathan, bishop of Winchester (born 1650–died 1721), English churchman
- Vernon, Thomas (born 1654–died 1721), English lawyer, politician, member of Parliament
- Voyer de Paulmy d’Argenson, Marc René de, 1st marquis d’Argenson (born 1652–died 1721), French aristocrat, government minister
- Wright, William [junior] (born 1659–died 1721), English lawyer, judge, politician, member of Parliament
