Births
- June 27 - John Latham, physician, naturalist, "grandfather of Australian ornithology" (died 1837)
- July 1 - Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, mineralogist and discoverer of tellurium (died 1825)
- August 26 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier, pioneer balloonist (died 1810)
- September 29 - Thomas Percival, reforming physician and medical ethicist (died 1804)
- December 24 - Anders Johan Lexell, astronomer and mathematician (died 1784)
- unknown - William Smellie, naturalist and encyclopedist (died 1795)
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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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