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• Mme Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont revises Beauty and the Beast.

• January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
• February 6 – Aaron Burr, American politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
• March 3 – William Godwin, English journalist (d. 1836)
• May – John Macadam, Scottish engineer, invented Tarmac for the roads (d. 1836)