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== Births ==
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau]], French chemist, politician (d. [[1816]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[John Hancock]], American politician and revolutionary (d. [[1793]])
[[File:Portrait of Thomas Paine.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Thomas Paine]]]]
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Thomas Paine]], British-born American patriot and pamphleteer (d. [[1809]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus]], Aromanian physician and noble (d. [[1828]])<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvtJAAAAcAAJ|title=Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich: Nabielak – Odelga|first=Constantin von|last=Wurzbach|author-link=Constantin von Wurzbach|series=[[Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich]]|volume=20|page=316|year=1869|language=de}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Arthur St. Clair]], American soldier and politician (d. [[1818]])
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Edward Gibbon]], English historian and politician (d. [[1794]])
* [[May 2]] &ndash; [[William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne]], [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]] (d. [[1805]])<ref>{{cite web |title=History of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/william-petty-2nd-earl-of-shelburne |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=1 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 20]] &ndash; [[Tokugawa Ieharu]], Japanese shōgun (d. [[1786]])
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Johann Friedrich Struensee]], Danish royal physician (d. [[1772]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Charles Hutton]], English mathematician (d. [[1823]])
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[John Hunter (Royal Navy officer)|John Hunter]], second governor of New South Wales (d. [[1821]])
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Luigi Galvani]], Italian physician and physicist (d. [[1798]])
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Michael Haydn]], Austrian composer (d. [[1806]])
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Miklós Küzmics]], [[Hungarian Slovenes]] writer, Catholic priest (d. [[1804]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Charles Carroll of Carrollton]], only [[Roman Catholic]] signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. [[1832]])
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Prince Josias of Coburg]], Austrian general (d. [[1815]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; 
** [[Frances Abington]], English actress (d. [[1815]])
** [[Gelelemend]], Indigenous American (Lenape) leader (d. [[1811]])