- Jan 13 Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French tragic poet and playwright (Rhadamiste et Zénobie), born in Dijon, France (d. 1762)
- Jan 24 Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735)
- Mar 30 Jethro Tull, English agricultural writer, born in Basildon, England (d. 1741) baptism date
- Jun 20 Nicholas Rowe, English poet and playwright (Tamerlane), Poet Laureate (1715-18), born in Little Barford, Bedfordshire (d. 1718)
- Jun 22 Jean Philippe Eugène de Mérode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo, born in Brussels (d. 1732)
- Aug 2 Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and Regent of France (1715-23), born in Château de Saint Cloud, France (d. 1723)
- Aug 9 František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect and builder, born in Prague (d. 1766)
- Sep 7 Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, German soldier and served under Emperor Leopold I, born in Osnabrück, Germany (d. 1728)
- Dec 25 Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712)