Births
- 9 January - George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (died 1833)
- 24 January - Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (died 1844)
- 4 February - George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley (died 1818)
- 12 February - David Ochterlony, general (died 1825)
- 17 February - John Pinkerton, antiquarian (died 1826)
- 23 February - Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier (died 1823)
- 4 April - John Hoppner, English portrait-painter (died 1810)
- 23 April
- Alexander Hood, officer of the Royal Navy (died 1798)
- Alexander Cochrane, officer of the Royal Navy (died 1832)
- Philip Gidley King, naval officer and colonial administrator (died 1808)
- 15 May - Thomas Taylor, translator (died 1835)
- 17 May - Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, fossil collector (died 1839)
- 30 June - James Stephen, lawyer (died 1832)
- 25 July - Elizabeth Hamilton, writer (died 1816)
- August - Thomas Picton, soldier (died 1815)
- 24 August - Edward James Eliot, politician (died 1797)
- 25 August - Israel Pellew, naval officer (died 1832)
- 1 September - George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, Whig politician (died 1834)
- 9 September - Alexander Nasmyth, portrait and landscape painter (died 1840)
- 29 September - Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, admiral (died 1805)
- 28 October - John Sibthorp, botanist (died 1796)
- 5 December - George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans (died 1787)
- 9 December - Richard Colt Hoare, antiquarian and archaeologist (died 1838)
- date unknown
- Watkin Tench, Marine officer (died 1833)
- Jane West, writer (died 1852)
- Samuel Whitbread, politician (died 1815)
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