• Monarch – Frederick I

• - A new sumptuary law bans the use of hooped skirts wider than 4.5 ells.^[1]
• 9 December – Carl Gustaf Tessin succeed Carl Gyllenborg as Privy Council Chancellery.
• - Eva Ekeblad present the result of how to make flour and alcohol out of potatoes to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

• 24 January – Gustav III of Sweden, monarch (died 1792)
• January 31 - Pehr Hörberg, artist, painter and musician (died 1816)
• 24 February – Uno von Troil, Archbishop of Uppsala (died 1803)
• 14 December - Julie Alix de la Fay, ballerina (died 1826)
• - Andreas Berlin, naturalist (died 1773)
• - Peter Jacob Hjelm, chemist and the first person to isolate the element molybdenum (died 1813)
• - Ulrika Fredrika Bremer, shipowner (died 1798)
• - Eric Ruuth, Governor-General of Swedish Pomerania (died 1820)
• - Lovisa Simson, theater director (died 1808)
• Hedda Piper, courtier (died 1812)

• 9 December – Carl Gyllenborg, politician (born 1679)

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