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== Births == * [[January 5]] – [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute]], French astronomer, mathematician (d. [[1788]]) * [[January 11]] – [[Prithvi Narayan Shah]], First Monarch of Nepal (d. [[1775]]) * [[January 12]] – [[Samuel Langdon]], American President of Harvard University (d. [[1797]]) * [[January 31]] – [[Petronella Johanna de Timmerman]], Dutch poet, scientist (d. [[1786]]) * [[February 15]] – [[John Witherspoon]], American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. [[1794]]) * [[February 17]] – [[Tobias Mayer]], German astronomer (d. [[1761]]) * [[February 21]] – [[Louis-Pierre Anquetil]], French historian (d. [[1808]]) * [[February 23]] – [[Richard Price]], Welsh philosopher (d. [[1791]]) * [[March 22]] – [[Charles Carroll (barrister)|Charles Carroll]], American lawyer, Continental Congressman (d. [[1783]]) * [[March 25]] – [[Catharina Mulder]], Dutch organist (d. [[1798]]) * [[March 31]] – King [[Frederick V of Denmark]] (d. [[1766]]) * [[April 5]] – [[Catherine Charlotte De la Gardie]], Swedish countess (d. [[1763]]) * [[April 20]] – [[Cornelius Harnett]], [[United States|American]] Continental Congressman (d. [[1781]]) * [[April 30]] – [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]], French naturalist (d. [[1806]]) * [[June 3]] – [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]], Italian-born physician, naturalist (d. [[1788]]) * [[June 11]] – [[Johann Georg Palitzsch]], German astronomer (d. [[1788]]) [[File:Adam Smith The Muir portrait.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Adam Smith]]]] * [[June 16]] – (baptised) [[Adam Smith]], Scottish economist, philosopher (d. [[1790]]) * [[June 20]] ** [[Adam Ferguson]], Scottish philosopher, historian (d. [[1816]]) ** [[Theophilus Lindsey]], English theologian (d. [[1808]]) * [[July 1]] – [[Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes]], Spanish statesman, writer (d. [[1802]]) * [[July 10]] – [[William Blackstone]], English jurist (d. [[1780]]) * [[July 11]] – [[Jean-François Marmontel]], French historian, writer (d. [[1799]]) * [[July 16]] – Sir [[Joshua Reynolds]], English painter (d. [[1792]]) * [[September 11]] – [[Johann Bernhard Basedow]], German educational reformer (d. [[1790]]) * [[October 4]] – [[Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus]], German entomologist (d. [[1798]]) * [[October 11]] – [[Hedvig Strömfelt]], Swedish psalm writer (d. [[1766]]) * [[November 8]] – [[John Byron]], English admiral (d. [[1786]]) * [[November 30]] – [[William Livingston]], American politician, journalist (d. [[1790]]) * [[December 22]] – [[Carl Friedrich Abel]], German composer (d. [[1787]]) * [[December 26]] – [[Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm]], German writer (d. [[1807]]) * ''Date unknown'' ** [[Carl Albert von Lespilliez]], German draftsman, architect and printmaker (d. [[1796]]) ** [[Eva Merthen]], Finnish political activist (d. [[1811]])
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