Year (''' MDCCXXIV ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- January 24 - Frances Brooke , English writer (d. 1789 )
- February 28 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend , British field marshal (d. 1807 )
- April 12 - Lyman Hall , American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790 )
- April 22 - Immanuel Kant , German philosopher (d. 1804 )
- April 29 - John Michell , English scientist and geologist (d. 1793 )
- May 7 - Dagobert Sigmund Von Wurmser , Alsatian-born Austrian general (d. 1797 )
- May 19 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl Of Bristol , British admiral and politician (d. 1779 )
- June 8 - John Smeaton , English civil engineer (d. 1792 )
- July 2 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , German poet (d. 1803 )
- July 31 - Noël François De Wailly , French lexicographer (d. 1801 )
- August 23 - Abraham Yates , American Continental Congressman (d. 1796 )
- August 25 - George Stubbs , English painter (d. 1806 )
- August 27 - John Joachim Zubly , Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781 )
- September 3 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester , British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808 )
- October 31 - Christopher Anstey , English writer (d. 1805 )
- December 12 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood , British admiral (d. 1816 )
- December 13 - Franz Aepinus , German scientist (d. 1802 )
- December 18 - Louise Of Great Britain , queen of Frederick V Of Denmark (d. 1751 )
- December 24 - Johann Conrad Ammann , Swiss physician and naturalist (d. 1811 )
- December 30 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée , French painter (d. 1805 )
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