- Jan 11 Columban Praelisauer, German music director and composer, baptized in Kötzting, Electorate of Bavaria (now Bad Kötzting, Germany) (d. 1753)
- Jan 20 Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish composer, born in Brussels (d. 1741)
- Jan 29 Carlmann Kolb, German composer and priest, born in Kösslarn, Lower Bavaria (d. 1765)