- Jan 5 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, Italian composer, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1750)
- Jan 19 Girolamo Chiti, Italian composer and music theorist, born in Siena (d. 1759)
- Jan 24 Christian von Wolff, German philosopher, born in Breslau, Silesia (d. 1754)
- Jan 27 Jean-Francois de Troy, French painter (Rococo style), born in Paris, France (d. 1752)
- Feb 14 Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, German composer, born in Ostramondra, Thuringia, Germany (d. 1735)
- Mar 18 Matthew Decker, English merchant and writer (d. 1759)
- May 12 Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, Italian composer and castrato (d. 1746)
- May 14 Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer who invented the Horrebow-Talcott Method, a method to determine a location's latitude from the stars, born in Løgstør, Jutland, Denmark (d. 1764)
- Jun 1 Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim)
- Aug 22 Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal, born in Grenoble, France (d. 1758)
- Sep 28 Mihael Omerza, Slovenian composer, born in Kamnik, Slovekia (d. 1742)
- Oct 16 Jan Dismas Zelenka, Bohemian composer born at Louňovice, Lands of the Bohemian Crown (d. 1745)
- Oct 18 Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials (d. 1716)
- Oct 20 Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer, Grand Chancellor of Prussia, born in Heidelberg (d. 1755)
- Nov 10 Johann Christian Schieferdecker, German composer, born in Teuchern, Germany (d. 1732)
- Nov 11 Firmin Abauzit, French scholar and scientist, born in Uzès, Kingdom of France (d. 1767)
- Nov 13 Thomas Philip Wallrad de Hénin-Liétard d'Alsace, Cardinal- Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium (d. 1759)
- Nov 14 Omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker and son of Antonius, born in Cremona, Italy (d. 1742)
- Dec 10 Willem Maurits, Dutch count of Nassau and governor of Zeeuws-Flanders, born in The Hague (d. 1753)
- Dec 24 Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian composer, born in Trani, Italy (d. 1744)