- Jan 12 Ferdinand I, king of Sicily & Naples. (d. 1825)
- Jan 12 Jacob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Baltic German poet and dramatist (The Soldiers), born in Sesswegen, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (d. 1792)
James Madison (1751-1836)
Mar 16 4th US President (1809-17), born in Port Conway, Virginia
- May 24 Charles Emanuel IV, King of Sardinia (1796-1802), born in Turin (d. 1819)
- Jun 4 John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, British barrister and politician, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland (d. 1838)
- Jul 11 Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, Queen consort of Denmark and Norway, born in Leicester House, London, England (d. 1775)
- Aug 7 Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (1767-1806), born in Berlin (d. 1820)
- Aug 23 Louis-Francois Beffara, French lexicographer, born in Nonancourt, France (d. 1838)
- Sep 13 Henry Kobell, Dutch painter and cartoonist, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1779)
- Oct 16 Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (d. 1805)
- Oct 20 Hendrik van Stralen, Dutch politician
- Oct 30 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright (The Rivals, The School for Scandal) and Whig MP, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1816)
- Dec 7 Jurriaan François de Friderici, governor-general of Suriname, born in Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa (d. 1812)
- Dec 9 Maria Luisa of Parma, Queen of Charles IV of Spain, born in Parma (d. 1819)
- Dec 10 George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist, born in Bierton, Buckinghamshire (d. 1813)
- Dec 26 Clement Hofbauer, Austrian missionary and saint (d. 1820)