- Jan 5 Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect & painter, born in Parma, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (now Italy) (d. 1757)
- Feb 10 Johann Melchior Molter, German composer, born in Tiefenort, Thuringia (now Germany) (d. 1765)
- Feb 17 Ernst Gottlieb Baron, German lutenist and composer, born in Breslau, Silesia (d. 1760)
- Feb 29 Esprit Antoine Blanchard, French composer, born in Pernes (d. 1770)
- Mar 5 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian Venetian Rococo painter (Isaac's Sacrifice), born in Venice, Venetian Republic (d. 1770)
- Mar 13 Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, French marshal and statesman, 3rd Duke of Richilieu, born in Paris (d. 1788)
- May 23 Johann Caspar Vogler, German composer and organist, born in Hausen, Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (d. 1763)
- Jun 11 Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal, born in Inverugie Castle, Scotland (d. 1758)
- Jun 27 William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier, born in Kittery, Maine (d. 1759)
- Jul 14 William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)
- Aug 2 Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1730-54) who fought Austria & Russia, born in Edirne Palace, Edirne, Ottoman Empire (d. 1754)
- Aug 9 Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein and general, born in Prague (d. 1772)
- Aug 12 Maurice Greene, English composer, born in London (d. 1755)
- Aug 31 Johann Paul Kunzen, German organist and composer, born in Leisnig, Saxony (d. 1757)
- Sep 27 Alfonsus Liguori, Italian bishop, theologian, poet, composer, lawyer, and Catholic saint, born in Marianella, Campania, Kingdom of Naples (d. 1787)
- Oct 8 Cornelis Troost, Dutch portrait painter (Unseemly Love), born in Amsterdam (d. 1750)
- Oct 13 John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (d. 1743)
- Oct 17 August III, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1733-63), Elector of Saxony, born in Dresden, Saxony (d. 1763)
- Nov 2 Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans, born in Herrenberg, Germany (d. 1760)
- Nov 11 Andrea Zani, Italian composer and violinist, born in Casalmaggiore, Cremona Province (d. 1757)
- Nov 15 Gerhardus Havingha, Dutch organist and composer, born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1753)
- Dec 22 James Oglethorpe, British soldier, politician, philanthropist, and founder of the US colony of Georgia, born in Godalming, Surrey, England (d. 1758)
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