- Jan 17 Pieter van Bloemen [Standaart], Flemish landscape painter, baptized in Antwerp (d. 1720)
- Jan 18 Hendrik Casimir II, Dutch Prince of Nassau-Dietz and Stadtholder of Friesland and Groningen (1664-96), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1696)
- Feb 11 Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle, French scientist and writer (Plurality of Worlds), born in Rouen, France (d. 1757)
- Mar 1 Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (reasonable orthodoxy), born in Basel, Swiss Confederacy (d. 1740)
- Mar 18 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian Baroque composer (d. 1743)
- Mar 24 Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)
- May 5 Jacques Danican Philidor, French composer (d. 1708)
- Jun 3 Manuel de Egues, Spanish composer, born in San Martin del Rio, Spain (d. 1729)
- Jun 10 James Cragg the Elder, British politician (d. 1721)
- Jun 14 Cornelis Cruys [Niels Olsen Creutz], Norwegian Dutch admiral, commanded the Russian Baltic fleet, born in Stravanger, Denmark-Norway (d. 1727)
- Jul 11 Frederick I, King of Prussia (1701-13), born in Königsberg, Prussia (d. 1713)
- Jul 25 Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, German composer, born in Esens, Germany (d. 1714)
- Aug 10 Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch colonial director
- Aug 18 Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, Italian architect and designer, born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1743)
- Sep 27 Sophia Alekseyevna, Regent of Russia (1682-89), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1704)
- Oct 4 Francesco Solimena, Italian painter, born in Canale di Serino, Avellino, Italy (d. 1747)
- Nov 8 Thomas Bullis Jr., English composer (d. 1712)
- Nov 11 Guido Starhemberg, Austrian earl and fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars), born in Graz, Austria (d. 1737)
- Nov 26 William Derham, English clergyman, natural theologian and scientist, born in Stoulton, Worcestershire (d. 1735)
- Dec 15 Michel-Richard Delalande, French organist and baroque composer (De Profundis), born in Paris (d. 1726)