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Events
- Armagh County Infirmary founded by Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby.
Births
- 7 May - Francis Beaufort, hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy, creator of the Beaufort scale (d.1857).
- 11 July - Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore, politician and statesman (d.1841).
- 29 December - Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry, Whig politician (d.1849).
Full date unknown
- Máire Bhuí Ní Laoghaire, poet (d.c1849).
- Bartholomew Teeling, a leader of the Irish forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (d.1798).
Deaths
- 4 April - Oliver Goldsmith, novelist and playwright (b.1728 or 1730).
- 11 July - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, pioneer and army officer in colonial New York (b.1715).
- 27 December - Henry Mossop, actor (b.1729).
- Sir Robert Blackwood, 1st Baronet (b.1694).
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