- May 21 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, Italian organist and composer, born in Siena (d. 1755)
- May 22 Abraham Patras, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1735-37), born in Grenoble, France (d. 1737)
- May 24 Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, born in Pitti Palace, Florence, Tuscany (d. 1737)