Births
- February 28 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (died 1760)
- June 4 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (died 1776)
- June 17 - John Kay, English inventor (died 1780)
- July 31 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (died 1752)
- (c. 1704) - William Battie, English psychiatrist (died 1776)
- undated - Richard Pococke, English anthropologist and explorer (died 1765)
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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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