- Jan 1 Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)
- Jan 6 Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1720)
- Jan 6 Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705)
- Jan 14 Angelo Predieri, composer
- Jan 22 Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral (Zealand)
- Feb 3 Francois Fagel, Dutch fieldmarshal, baptized
- Feb 7 Jean-Francois Regnard, French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria)
- Apr 8 Louis Willem I, Margrave (Baden-Baden)
- May 4 Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker - considered the inventor of the piano, born in Padua (d. 1731)
- May 13 Innocent XIII, [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Italian 244th Pope (1721-24)
- Jun 13 Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh, 1st actress in the Netherlands (Onvergelijkelijke Ariana, Amsterdam Schouwburg), born in Middelburg, Netherlands (d. 1661)
- Jun 26 Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent
- Aug 13 Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)
- Sep 12 Sebastien de Brossard, French composer and music theorist, born in Dompierre, Orne, France (d. 1730)
- Sep 19 Jan Luyts, Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer
- Nov 24 Charles XI, King of Sweden (1660-97)
- Dec 28 Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)