Births
- March 12 - William Buckland, English geologist and paleontologist (died 1856)
- June 17 - Andrew Crosse, English 'gentleman scientist', pioneer experimenter in electricity (died 1855)
- July 22 - Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician (died 1846)
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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.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)