Births
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- January 9 – John Scott (died 1783), 53, English poet and friend of Samuel Johnson
- February – Charles Churchill (died 1764), English poet
- April 16 – Jacob Bailey, (died 1808), Church of England clergyman and poet born in the United States (colony of New Hampshire), immigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada in 1779
- September 2 – Johann Friedrich von Cronegk (died 1758), German dramatist, poet and essayist
- November 26 – William Cowper (died 1800), English poet
- December 12 – Erasmus Darwin (died 1802), English physician, natural philosopher, physiologist, inventor and poet (grandfather of Charles Darwin)
- Samuel Bishop (died 1758), English poet
- John Freeth (?)
- Francis Grose (died 1791), Swiss antiquary, draughtsman, and lexicographer
- Ephraim Moses Kuh (died 1790), German
- William Woty
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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)