- Dec 1 Giuseppe Sarti, Italian composer, born in Faenza, (d. 1802)
- Dec 3 Antonio Soler, Spanish Catalan composer (Fandango), born in Olot, Catalonia, Spain (d. 1783)
- Dec 20 Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, Czech composer, born in Městec Králové, Lands of the Bohemian Crown (now Czech Republic) (d. 1794)