Births
- 19 January - James Watt, inventor (died 1819)
- 28 February - Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers (died 1784 in the United States)
- 10 May - George Steevens, literary critic (died 1800)
- 25 June - John Horne Tooke, politician and philologist (died 1812)
- 27 October - James Macpherson, poet (died 1796)
- date unknown - Alexander Runciman, painter (died 1785)
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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.”
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