- Apr 3 Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German benedictine and composer, born in Oberelsbach, Germany (d. 1750)
- Apr 11 Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer, born in Avignon, France (d. 1738)
- Apr 15 Jann van Huysum, Dutch painter (still lives of flowers and fruit), born in Amsterdam (d. 1749)
- Apr 16 John Hadley, English mathematician and inventor (octant), born in Bloomsbury, London (d. 1744)
- Apr 22 Willem Ignatius Kerricx, Flemish architect, sculptor and painter, born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1745)