Births
- January 17 – John Stanley, English composer (d. 1786)
- January 24 – King Frederick the Great of Prussia (d. 1786)
- January 28 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
- February 28 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (d. 1759)
- March 8 – John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780)
- March 22 – Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757)
- March 27 – Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779)
- May 13 – Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (d. 1772)
- June 21 – Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)
- June 28 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
- October 5 – Francesco Guardi, Italian artist (d. 1793)
- October 12 – William Shippen, American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1801)
- October 14 – George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1770)
- October 21 – Sir James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist (d. 1780)
- November 25 – Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of signed French (d. 1789)
- December 11 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (d. 1764)
- December 12 – Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (d. 1780)
- date unknown – Angélique du Coudray, French pioneer of modern midwifery (d. 1789)
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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)