Births
- January 21 (or June 21) - Baron d'Holbach - philosopher, encyclopedist (died 1789)
- February 23 - Richard Price, philosopher (died 1791)
- February 24 - John Burgoyne, soldier and dramatist (died 1792)
- June 20 - Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian (died 1816)
- July 11 - Jean-François Marmontel, French novelist and dramatist (died 1799)
- July 17 - Adam Smith - Scottish economist (died 1790)
- September 30 - William Hutton (historian), local historian
- November 8 - John Byron, English vice-admiral, grandfather of the poet Lord Byron (died 1786)
- November 30 - William Livingston, American politician and journalist (died 1790)
- December 26 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm (died 1807)
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