Year (''' MDCCLVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 16 - Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1834 )
- February 20 - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller , English philanthropist (d. 1834 )
- April 9 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth , British admiral (d. 1833 )
- May 30 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1844 )
- June 18 - Gervasio Antonio De Posadas , Argentine leader (d. 1833 )
- June 22 - George Vancouver , British explorer (d. 1798 )
- July 20 - Garsevan Chavchavadze , Georgian diplomat and politician (d. 1811 )
- August 9 - Thomas Telford , British Engineer & Architect (d. 1834 )
- September 6 - Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis De La Fayette , French soldier and statesman (d. 1834 )
- October 9 - King Charles X Of France (d. 1836 )
- October 21 - Pierre Augereau , Marshal Of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816 )
- November 28 - William Blake , English poet (d. 1827 )
- December 17 - Nathaniel Macon , American politician (d. 1837 )
- December 25 - Benjamin Pierce , American politician (d. 1839 )
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- January 9 - Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle , French scientist and man of letters (born 1657 )
- January 19 - Thomas Ruddiman , Scottish classical scholar (born 1664 )
- March 1 - Edward Moore , English writer (born 1712 )
- March 8 - Thomas Blackwell , Scottish classical scholar (born 1701 )
- March 12 - Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena , Italian Architect / Painter (born 1696 )
- March 14 - John Byng , British admiral (executed) (born 1704 )
- March 27 - Johann Stamitz , Czech-born composer (born 1717 )
- May 6 - Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf Von Browne , Austrian field marshal (born 1705 )
- May 6 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke Of Grafton , British politician (born 1683 )
- May 6 - Kurt Christoph Graf Von Schwerin , Prussian field marshal (born 1684 )
- July 23 - Domenico Scarlatti , Italian composer (born 1685 )
- August 28 - David Hartley , English philosopher (born 1705 )
- October 17 - René Antoine Ferchault De Réaumur , French scientist (born 1683 )
- October 25 - Antoine Augustine Calmet , French theologian (born 1672 )
- October 30 - Osman III , Ottoman Sultan (born 1699 )
- November 12 - Colley Cibber , English poet (born 1671 )
- December 11 - Edmund Curll , English bookseller and publisher (born 1675 )
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