Births
- January 20 - Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, French chemist (died 1836)
- March 9 - Franz Joseph Gall, German-born neuroanatomist (died 1828)
- June 29 - Clotilde Tambroni, Italian philologist and linguist (died 1817)
- October 11 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (died 1840)
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