Births
- July 6 - Alexander Wilson, ornithologist (died 1813)
- August 3 - Kurt Sprengel, botanist (died 1833)
- August 6 - William Hyde Wollaston, chemist (died 1828)
- September 6 - John Dalton, chemist and physicist (died 1844)
- December 29 - Charles Macintosh, inventor of a waterproof fabric (died 1843)
- John Farey, geologist (died 1826)
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