Births
- 19 March - Edward Pakenham, general (died 1815)
- 10 April - William Hazlitt, essayist (died 1830)
- 18 May
- Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, politician (died 1854)
- Andrew Ure, doctor and writer (died 1857)
- 7 June - Beau Brummell, arbiter of fashion (died 1840)
- 19 September - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (died 1868)
- 25 November - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, Christian writer (died 1856)
- 17 December - Humphry Davy, chemist (died 1829)
- 18 December - Joseph Grimaldi, clown (died 1837)
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