Births
- January 1 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, poet (died 1780)
- April 14 - Adam Gib, theologian (died 1788)
- November 13 - William Shenstone, English poet (died 1763)
- James Hervey, the anatomist
- George Whitefield, the preacher
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