Births
- April 14 - Charles Collé, dramatists
- August 7 - Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan, French poet (died 1784)
- August 29 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, poet and dramatist (died 1777)
- September 18 - Samuel Johnson (died 1784)
- December 25 - Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French author (died 1751)
- unknown date
- John Armstrong, poet (died 1779)
- Richard Burn, legal writer (died 1785)
- John Cleland, controversial English novelist (died 1789)
- John Bancks, miscellaneous writer (died 1751)
- probable
- James Adair, historian (died 1783)
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