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In the American colonies, the Library Company of Philadelphia was started in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, PA.
Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731, in Baltimore County, Maryland to Mary Banneky, a free black, and Robert, a freed slave from Guinea.
The first wife of Peter I of Russia, Yevdokiya, passed away at the age of 62.
The composer Damasus Brosmann was born in the Czech Republic in 1731.
The English composer, De Gambarini, was born in Holles Street, St Marylebone, in 1731.