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- January 25 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet writing in Braid Scots and English (died 1796)[5]
- March 5 – John Jamieson, Scottish lexicographer (died 1838)[6]
- March 29 – Alexander Chalmers, Scottish biographer and editor (died 1834)
- April 27 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English political writer and advocate of women's rights (died 1797)[7]
- May 4 (baptism) – Isabella Kelly, Scottish novelist and poet (died 1857)[8]
- June 17 – Helen Maria Williams, English novelist, poet and translator from French (died 1827)
- October 13 – Mary Hays, English writer and advocate of women's rights (died 1843)
- November 10 – Friedrich Schiller, German poet and dramatist (died 1805)
- December 25 – Richard Porson, English classicist (died 1808)
- unknown date – Deen Mahomet, author of first book in English by an Indian (died 1851)[9]
- June 12 – William Collins, English poet (born 1721)
- June 26 – Arthur Young, English religious writer and cleric (born 1693)
- July 27 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French philosopher (born 1698)
- July 29 – Kata Bethlen, Hungarian memoirist and correspondent (born 1700)
- August 16 – Eugene Aram, English philologist and murderer, hanged (born 1704)
- August 24 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (born 1715)
- September 5 – Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architectural historian (born 1706)
- October 7 – Joseph Ames, English bibliographer and antiquary (born 1680)
- unknown date – Francis Coventry, English clergyman and novelist (born 1725)[10]
- probable – Anton Wilhelm Amo, West African-born German philosopher (born 1703)
Michael H. Fisher, "Mahomed, Deen (1759–1851)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP), 2004 Retrieved 13 May 2017.