Events
Births
- January 24 - Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)
- February 28 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807)
- April 12 - Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)
- April 22 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
- April 29 - John Michell, English scientist and geologist (d. 1793)
- May 7 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (d. 1797)
- May 19 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)
- June 8 - John Smeaton, English civil engineer (d. 1792)
- July 2 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
- July 31 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
- August 23 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
- August 25 - George Stubbs, English painter (d. 1806)
- August 27 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
- September 3 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808)
- October 31 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (d. 1805)
- December 12 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (d. 1816)
- December 13 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (d. 1802)
- December 18 - Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1751)
- December 24 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (d. 1811)
- December 30 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (d. 1805)
Deaths
- January 6 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653)
- February 12 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (b. 1648)
- March 7 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
- May 3 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662)
- May 21 - Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (b. 1661)
- June 15 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)
- October 2 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)
- October 29 - William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (b. 1659)
- November 16 - Jack Sheppard, English criminal (executed) (b. 1702)
- November 18 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
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