Births
- January 4 - Benjamin Rush, Founding Father of the United States, chemist and physician (died 1813)
- March 7 - André Michaux, French botanist (died 1802)
- May 10 - Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (died 1818)
- July 7 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian Theatine monk, astronomer and mathematician (died 1826)
- March 15 - Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist after whom the Venturi tube is named (died 1822)
- Louise du Pierry, French astronomer (died 1789)
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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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