Births
- January 24 - Frances Brooke, novelist and dramatist (died 1789)
- April 22 - Immanuel Kant philosopher (died 1804)
- July 2 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (died 1803) )
- October 31 - Christopher Anstey, poet (died 1805)
- December 13 - Franz Aepinus, philosopher (died 1802)
- date unknown - Frances Sheridan, novelist, dramatist and mother of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (died 1766)
- William Gilpin
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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.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)