Births
- June 4 - Jean-Antoine Chaptal, French chemist who names nitrogen in 1790 (died 1832)
- September 21 - John Loudon McAdam, Scottish highway engineer (died 1836)
- November 30 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (died 1827)
- December 26 - Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, French naturalist (died 1825)
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