Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 4 – Carl Michael Bellman (died 1795), Swedish poet
- April 10 – Basílio da Gama (died 1795), Brazilian
- August 15 – Matthias Claudius (died 1815), German
- September 2 – Johann Georg Jacobi (died 1814), German
- November 4 – Augustus Montagu Toplady (died 1778), English clergyman and hymn-writer; an opponent of John Wesley; author of the hymn "Rock of Ages"
- Also:
- Charlotte Brooke (died 1793), Irish poet
- Samuel Henley (died 1815) English clergyman, school teacher, college principal, antiquarian, writer and poet
- Thomas Moss (died 1808), English clergyman and poet
- Christoph Friedrich Sangerhausen (died 1802), 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)