Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 14 – Richard Owen Cambridge (died 1802), English poet
- November 25 – Alexander Sumarokov, Russian poet and playwright (died 1777)
- December 16 – Elizabeth Carter (died 1806), English poet, classical scholar and translator; a Bluestocking
- date not known – Molla Panah Vagif (died 1797), Azerbaijani poet
- date not known – William Williams Pantycelyn (died 1791), Welsh poet, prose and hymn writer
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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)