Births
- April 15 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (died 1844)
- October 29 - Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire, French botanist (died 1845)
- November 28 - Luke Howard, English meteorologist and manufacturing chemist (died 1864)
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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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