Wikipedia highlights these Jan 1 - Paul Revere, American silversmith and patriot (d 1818) Jan 8 - John Carroll (priest) first RC Archbishop in US (d 1815) John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, British Royal Navy admiral (d 1823) Jan 27 - Étienne Clavière, French financier and politician (d 1793)
Feb 28 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde French musician and chemist (d 1796)
Apr 13 - Isaac Low, New York delegate to the Continental Congress (d 1791)
May 1 - Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro Spanish Jesuit philologist (d 1809) May 23 - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne (d 1814)
Sep 5 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d 1782) Sep 20 - James Keir, Scottish geologist, chemist, and industrialist (d 1820) Sep 28 - Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the UK (d 1811)
Oct 1 - Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (d 1811) Oct 9 - Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (d 1806) Oct 21 - Richard Gough, English antiquary (d 1809) Oct 30- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (d 1826)
Nov 10 - Granville Sharp, English abolitionist (d 1813)
Dec 29 - Thomas Banks, English sculptor and artist (d 1805) Dec 31 - Jean de Crévecoeur, French-American writer (d 1813)
Date unknown - John Julius Angerstein, English merchant and insurer (d 1822)
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