Births
- February 4 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (died 1804)
- May 23 - Robert Bakewell, English agriculturalist and geneticist (died 1795)
- September 16 - Nicolas Desmarest, French naturalist (died 1815)
- September 25 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French mechanical engineer (died 1804)
- September 27 - Patrick d'Arcy, Irish-born mathematician (died 1779)
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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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