Year (''' MDCCXLVIII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Friday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 1 - Gottfried August Bürger , German poet (died 1794 )
- January 19 - Antonio Carnicero , Spanish painter (died 1814 )
- February 2 - Adam Weishaupt , German founder of the Order Of The Illuminati (died 1811 )
- February 9 - Luther Martin , American politician (died 1826 )
- February 15 - Jeremy Bentham , English philosopher and writer (died 1832 )
- February 22 - Timothy Dexter , American businessman (died 1806 )
- February 27 - Anders Sparrman , Swedish naturalist (died 1820 )
- March 5 - William Shield , English violinist and composer (died 1829 )
- March 5 - Jonas C. Dryander , Swedish botanist (died 1810 )
- March 8 - Prince William V Of Orange (died 1806 )
- March 10 - John Playfair , Scottish scientist (died 1819 )
- April 12 - Antoine Laurent De Jussieu , French botanist (died 1836 )
- April 27 - Pierre-Louis Ginguené , French author (died 1815 )
- April 27 - Adamantios Korais , Greek scholar (died 1833 )
- May 3 - Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès , French cleric and constitutional theorist (died 1836 )
- May 7 - Olympe De Gouges , French playwright (died 1793 )
- May 10 - Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot , French ornithologist (died 1831 )
- May 28 - Frederick Howard, 5th Earl Of Carlisle (died 1825 )
- June 8 - William Few , American politician (died 1828 )
- June 30 - Jacques Dominique, Comte De Cassini , French astronomer (died 1845 )
- August 8 - Johann Friedrich Gmelin , German naturalist (died 1804 )
- August 30 - Jacques-Louis David , French painter (died 1825 )
- October 7 - King Charles XIII Of Sweden (Charles II of Norway) (died 1818 )
- October 13 - Johann Dominicus Fiorillo , German painter and art historian (died 1821 )
- October 14 - Alexianne And Kyrianne Stryker , Makain thieves (This is Jane's addition XD)
- October 19 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson , wife of Thomas Jefferson (died 1782 )
- November 11 - King Charles IV Of Spain (died 1819 )
- November 13 - William Chalmers , Swedish merchant (died 1811 )
- December 9 - Claude Louis Berthollet , French chemist (died 1822 )
- December 14 - William Cavendish, 5th Duke Of Devonshire (died 1811 )
- ''date unknown'' - James Sayers , English caricaturist (died 1823 )
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- January 1 - Johann Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician (born 1667 )
- January 16 - Arnold Drakenborch , Dutch classical scholar (born 1684 )
- February 18 - Otto Ferdinand Graf Von Abensperg Und Traun , Austrian field marshal (born 1677 )
- March 14 - George Wade , British military leader (born 1673 )
- March 23 - Johann Gottfried Walther , German music theorist, organist, and composer (born 1684 )
- April 12 - William Kent , English architect (born c. 1685 )
- May 12 - Thomas Lowndes , British astronomer (born 1692 )
- August 27 - James Thomson , Scottish poet (born 1700 )
- September 6 - Edmund Gibson , English jurist (born 1669 )
- September 12 - Anne Bracegirdle , English actress (born c. 1671 )
- September 21 - John Balguy , English philosopher (born 1686 )
- November 25 - Isaac Watts , English hymn writer (born 1674 )
- December 2 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke Of Somerset , English politician (born 1662 )
- December 19 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti , Italian priest and composer (born 1672 )
: ''See also .''
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