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== Births == * [[January 14]] – [[Jacques-Donatien Le Ray]], French supporter of the American Revolution (d. [[1803]]) * [[January 17]] – [[Hugh Mercer]], brigadier general in the American [[Continental Army]], and a close friend to [[George Washington]] (d. [[1777]]) * [[February 4]] – [[Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie]], Director-general of the [[Louisiana (New France)|Colony of Louisiana]] (d. [[1765]]) * [[February 7]] – [[Margaret Fownes-Luttrell]], British painter (d. [[1766]]) * [[March 8]] – [[Richard Howe]], British admiral (d. [[1799]]) * [[April 5]] – [[Benjamin Harrison V]], signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. [[1791]]) * [[April 8]] – [[Lewis Morris]], American landowner and developer, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. [[1798]]) * [[April 12]] – [[Charles Burney]], English music historian (d. [[1814]]) * [[April 20]] – [[Joseph de Ferraris]], [[Austrian Empire|Austrian]] [[cartographer]] of the [[Austrian Netherlands]] (d. [[1814]]) [[File:Sir Henry Raeburn - James Hutton, 1726 - 1797. Geologist - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[James Hutton]]]] * [[June 3]] O.S. – [[James Hutton]], Scottish geologist (d. [[1797]]) * [[June 14]] O.S. – [[Thomas Pennant]], Welsh naturalist (d. [[1798]]) * [[June 20]] – [[Louise Henriette of Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans]], mother of [[Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans|Philippe Égalité]] (d. [[1759]]) * [[July 1]] – [[Acharya Bhikshu (Jain Monk)|Acharya Bhikshu]], Jain saint (d. [[1803]]) * [[July 30]] – [[William Jones (1726–1800)]], British clergyman, author (d. [[1800]]) * [[August 7]] – [[James Bowdoin]], American Revolutionary leader, politician (d. [[1790]]) * [[August 9]] – [[Francesco Cetti]], Italian Jesuit scientist (d. [[1778]]) * [[September 1]] – [[François-André Danican Philidor]], French composer, chess player (d. [[1795]]) * [[September 2]] – [[John Howard (prison reformer)]], English philanthropist (d. [[1790]]) * [[September 26]] – [[John H. D. Anderson]], Scottish scientist (d. [[1796]]) * [[September 26]] – [[Angelo Maria Bandini]], Italian librarian (d. [[1803]]) * [[October 16]] – [[Daniel Chodowiecki]], Polish painter (d. [[1801]]) * [[December 4]] – [[Lord Stirling]], American brigadier-general during the [[American Revolutionary War]] (d. [[1783]]) * ''date unknown'' ** [[Lê Quý Đôn]], Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (d. [[1784]]) ** [[Cyprian Howe]], American colonel in the American Revolutionary War (d. [[1806]]) ** [[Katsukawa Shunshō]], Japanese woodblock artist (d. [[1792]]) ** [[Jedediah Strutt]], English businessman (d. [[1797]]) ** [[Lady Anne Monson]], English botanist (d. [[1776]])
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