Births
- March 23 - Cajsa Warg, Swedish cookbook author (died 1769)
- June 28 - John Wesley, writer of sermons and hymns (died 1791)
- October 5 - Jonathan Edwards, theologian (died 1758)
- November 26 - Theophilus Cibber, playwright (died 1758)
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- Henry Brooke, novelist and dramatist (died 1783)
- Charles Clémencet, historian (died 1778)
- Thomas Cooke, translator of Hesiod (died 1756)
- İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi, Sufi philosopher (died 1780)
- Ando Shoeki, philosopher (died 1762)
- Gilbert West, poet (died 1756)
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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