- Jan 20 Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, Italian composer and mandolin player, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1732)
- Mar 24 Georg Philipp Telemann, German late baroque composer, born in Magdeburg, Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1767)
- Mar 30 Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter and engraver, born in Antwerp (d. 1752)
- Apr 11 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer (Concert Spirituel), born in Paris (d. 1728)
- Jun 18 Feofan Prokopovich, Russian Orthodox theologian and Archbishop of Novgorod, born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1736)
- Jun 26 Hedvig Sophia, Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, born in Three Crowns Castle, Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1708)
- Aug 5 Vitus Bering, Danish explorer of Bering Strait and coast of Alaska, born in Horsens, Denmark (d. 1741)
- Aug 22 Pierre Danican Philidor, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1731)
- Sep 11 Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist, born in Eisenberg, Germany (d. 1741)
- Sep 28 Johann Mattheson, German composer, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1764)
- Nov 17 Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776)
- Nov 28 Jean Cavalier, French Huguenot chief of the Camisards, born in Ribaute, France (d. 1740)
- Dec 14 Giuseppe Valentini, Italian violinist, poet, and composer, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy) (d. 1753)