Births
- January 29 - Thomas Paine, free thinker and revolutionary (died 1809)
- April 27 - Edward Gibbon (died 1794)
- unknown date - Frances Abington, actress, a leading exponent of Shakespeare and Sheridan (died 1815)
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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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