Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- August 7 – Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan, French poet (died 1784)
- September 18 (N.S.) – Samuel Johnson (died 1784), English poet, author, critic
- Also:
- John Armstrong (died 1779), Scottish poet
- John Banks also spelled "Bancks" (died 1751), English poet and author
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (died 1773), English statesman and poet
- Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, year uncertain (died 1788), Irish statesman and poet
- Christoph Friedrich Wedekind (died 1777), German
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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)