- Jan 16 Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (Mémoires), born in Paris (d. 1755)
- Feb 21 Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)
- Feb 28 Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
- Mar 31 Benedict XIV [Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini], Italian Pope (1740-58), born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1758)
- May 29 Humphry Ditton, English mathematician, born in Salisbury, England (d. 1715)
- Jun 1 Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)
- Jul 5 Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials, born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1720)
- Jul 14 Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier who served the Ottoman Empire and converted to Islam (d. 1747)
- Sep 2 William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
- Sep 3 Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts (d. 1751)
- Oct 11 Samuel Clarke, English philosopher and theologian, born in Norwich, England (d. 1729)
- Oct 21 Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
- Oct 24 Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician, born in Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany (d. 1749)