Births
- 18 February - Robert Henry, historian (died 1790)
- 4 April - Benjamin Kennicott, churchman and Hebrew scholar (died 1783)
- 7 April - Hugh Blair, preacher and man of letters (died 1800)
- 17 May - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, diplomat and politician (died 1778)
- 23 May - William Hunter, anatomist (died 1783)
- 30 May - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, politician (died 1793)
- 5 June - Thomas Chippendale, furniture maker (died 1779)
- 17 June - George Howard, field marshal (died 1796)
- 5 July - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (died 1794)
- 31 July - John Canton, physicist (died 1772)
- 3 November - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, statesman (died 1792)
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