- Jan 13 Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, German composer and librettist, born in Grünstädtel,, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany) (d. 1749)
- Jan 22 Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
- Feb 1 Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1768)
- Feb 3 Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)
- Feb 21 Christoph Stoltzenberg, German composer, born in Wertheim am Main, Wertheim County, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1764)
- Feb 28 Alexei Petrovich, Russian Tsarevich and son of Peter the Great (who fell out with his father and defected to Austria), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1718)
- Mar 1 Conrad Beissel, German born American religious leader and composer (founded Ephrata community), born in Eberbach (d. 1768)
- Mar 18 Christian Goldbach, German mathematician (Goldbach position), born in Königsberg, Brandenburg-Prussia (d. 1764)
- Apr 22 John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (C) and English chief minister (1722-42), born in Westminster, Middlesex, England (d. 1763)
- Apr 25 Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, German composer, born in Passau, Germany (d. 1770)
- Jul 7 Johann Tobias Krebs, German organist and composer, born in Heichelheim, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar (now Germany) (d. 1762)
- Aug 9 Lorenzo Zavateri, Italian violinist and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1764)
- Sep 12 Peter Dens, Flemish Catholic theologian, born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1775)
- Sep 15 Ignazio Prota, Italian composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire (now Italy) (d. 1748)
- Oct 8 Jaime de Casellas, Spanish composer, born in Valls, Spain (d. 1764)
- Oct 19 Giuseppe Maria Carretti, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1774)
- Oct 29 Martin Folkes, English antiquarian and mathematician, born in Westminster, London (d. 1754)
- Nov 11 Gerhard Hoffmann, German composer, born in Rastenberg, Thuringia, (d. 1757)
- Nov 17 Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter and cartoonist (d. 1734)
- Nov 22 François Colin de Blamont, French composer, born in Versailles, France (d. 1760)
- Nov 23 Ernst Johann van Biron, Russian duke of Courland and regent of Ivan VI, born in Kalnciems, Semigallia (d. 1772)
- Nov 24 Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German-American composer (son of Johann Pachelbel, one of the first to move to America), born in Stuttgart (d. 1750)
- Nov 29 Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747)
- Dec 1 Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England, born in Dover, Kent (d. 1764)
- Dec 22 Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur, born in Manipur (d. 1751)