Births
- January 20 - Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Swedish naturalist (died 1783)
- March 17 - William Withering, English botanist, geologist, chemist and physician who discovered digitalis (died 1799)
- September 22 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (died 1811)
- probable date - Bryan Higgins, Irish-born chemist (died 1818)
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