Births
- January 25 - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, philosopher (died 1819)
- March 4 - Johann David Wyss, Swiss novelist (died 1818)
- March 14 - Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (died 1809)
- April 13 - Thomas Jefferson, American revolutionary and President
- June 20 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet (died 1825)
- July 14 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian lyric poet (died 1816)
- date unknown - Julien Louis Geoffroy, French critic (died 1814)
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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)