Births
- February 24 - Jacques de Vaucanson, French engineer and inventor (died 1782)
- March 3 - Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, German chemist (died 1782)
- March 10 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (died 1746)
- April 17 - Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (died 1788)
- July 11 - Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (died 1785)
- August 8 - Johann Georg Gmelin, German botanist (died 1755)
- December 25 - Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French physician and philosopher (died 1751)
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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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