- Jan 6 Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, Spanish composer, born in Calatayud, Spain (d. 1768)
- Jan 10 Johannes Zick, German fresco painter, born in Lachen, Germany (d. 1762)
- Jan 14 Nakamikado Emperor of Japan, born in Kyoto, Japan (d. 1737)
- Jan 28 Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch lawyer
- Feb 10 Jean-Pierre Guignon [né Giovanni Pietro Ghignone], Italian-French violinist and composer, born in Turin, Duchy of Savoy (now Italy) (d. 1774)
- Feb 27 Johann Valentin Gorner, composer
- Mar 4 Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)
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Mar 8 Anne Bonny, Irish pirate (date of birth is approximate), born in Kinsale, Ireland (d. 1782)
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- Mar 25 Christian Gottlieb Ziegler, German composer, born in Pulsnitz, Saxony
- Mar 25 Pieter Teyler Van der Hulst, Dutch silk merchant (Teyler's Museum)
- Mar 27 Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer, born in Jettingen-Scheppach, Germany (d. 1762)
- May 2 Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German Lutheran theologian, born in Göppingen, Germany (d. 1782)
- Jun 26 Philip Doddridge, English Nonconformist clergyman, born in London (d. 1751)
- Jul 6 Franz Anton Maichelbeck, German composer, born in Reichenau, Germany (d. 1750)
- Jul 17 Johann Schneider, German composer and pupil of Bach, born in Coburg, Bavaria, Germany (d. 1788)
- Jul 31 Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter, born in Dole, France (d. 1768)
- Aug 15 Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter and etcher, born in Pitigliano, Italy (d. 1788)
- Aug 20 Stepan F graaf Apraksin, Russian general-fieldmarshal (d. 1758)
- Sep 6 Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, German composer, born in Wenigenehrich, Germany (d. 1775)
- Dec 22 Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter, art connoisseur, and dealer (Madame d'Epinay), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1789)