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== Births == * [[February 4]] – [[Carl Michael Bellman]], Swedish poet, composer (d. [[1795]]) * [[February 15]] – [[Juan Andrés]], Spanish Jesuit (d. [[1817]]) * [[February 16]] – [[Giambattista Bodoni]], Italian publisher and engraver (d. [[1813]]) * [[February 17]] – [[John Sullivan (general)|John Sullivan]], American General in the [[American Revolutionary War]], delegate in the [[Continental Congress]] (d. [[1795]]) * [[March]] – [[Johann van Beethoven]], German musician, father of [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] (d. [[1792]]) * [[March 16]] – [[Johann Jacob Schweppe]], German-born inventor, founder of the Schweppes Company (d. [[1821]]) * [[April 7]] – [[Haym Salomon]], Polish-Jewish American financier of the [[American Revolution]] (d. [[1785]]) * [[April 14]] – [[Anna Strong (spy)|Anna Strong]], Patriot spy during the American Revolutionary War (d. [[1812]]) * [[May 7]] – [[Nikolai Arkharov]], Russian police chief (d. [[1814]]) [[File:Marquis de Sade portrait.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Marquis de Sade]]]] * [[June 2]] – [[Marquis de Sade]], French author, for whom sadism is named (d. [[1814]]) * [[June 24]] – [[Juan Ignacio Molina]], Spanish-Chilean Jesuit priest, naturalist, historian, translator, geographer, botanist, ornithologist and linguist (d. [[1829]]) * [[June 27]] – [[James Woodforde]], English clergyman and [[diarist]] (d. [[1803]]) * [[July 27]] – [[Jeanne Baré]], French explorer (d. [[1803]]) * [[August 23]] – Emperor [[Ivan VI of Russia]] (d. [[1764]]) * [[August 26]] – [[Joseph-Michel Montgolfier]], French inventor (d. [[1810]]) * [[September 12]] – [[Johann Heinrich Jung]], German writer (d. [[1817]]) * [[September 23]] – [[Empress Go-Sakuramachi]] of Japan (d. [[1813]]) * [[September 25]] – [[Hercules Mulligan]], tailor and spy during the [[American Revolutionary War]] (d. [[1825]]) * [[October 29]] – [[James Boswell]], Scottish author (d. [[1795]]) * [[October 31]] – [[Philip James de Loutherbourg]], English artist (d. [[1812]]) * [[December]] – [[Elisabeth Olin]], Swedish opera singer (d. [[1828]]) === Date unknown === * [[Ali Pasha of Ioannina]], Albanian ruler (d. [[1822]]) * [[Margaret Bingham]], Countess of Lucan, born Margaret Smith, English portrait miniature painter and writer (d. [[1814]])<ref name="Radford">{{DNB|wstitle=Bingham, Margaret|volume=5}}</ref> * [[John Milton (Georgia politician)|John Milton]], American politician and officer of the [[Continental Army]] (d. [[1817]]) (earliest estimated date of birth) * [[Septimanie d'Egmont]], French [[Salon (gathering)|salonist]] (d. [[1773]])
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