Births
- February 17 - Tobias Mayer, German cartographer, astronomer and physicist (died 1762)
- April 30 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist (died 1806)
- Nicole-Reine Lepaute, French astronomer (died 1788)
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