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== Births ==
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Ethan Allen]], American patriot (d. [[1789]])
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Pierre-Joseph Desault]], French anatomist and surgeon (d. [[1795]])
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Padre Francisco Garcés]], Spanish missionary (d. [[1781]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1809]])<ref>{{cite web |title=History of William Cavendish-Bentinck Duke of Portland - GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/william-bentinck-duke-of-portland |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=1 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Nathaniel Gorham]], American politician (d. [[1796]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Joseph-Ignace Guillotin]], French physician (d. [[1814]])
* [[June 4]] &ndash; King [[George III of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1820]])
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[John Singleton Copley]], American painter (d. [[1815]])
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Darejan Dadiani]], Georgian queen consort (d. [[1807]])
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Anne d'Yves]], writer, participant in the Brabant Revolution (d. [[1814]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Etteilla]], French occult cartomancer (d. [[1791]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Nicholas Van Dyke (governor)|Nicholas Van Dyke]], American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. [[1789]])
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Arthur Phillip]], British admiral and Governor of New South Wales (d. [[1814]])
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Andrei Bolotov]], Russian agriculturalist and memoirist (d. [[1833]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Charles Spalding]], Scottish inventor and underwater diver (d. [[1783]])
[[File:William Herschel01.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William Herschel]]]]
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[William Herschel]], German-born astronomer (d. [[1822]])
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis]], British general (d. [[1805]])