- Jan 7 Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company
- Jan 7 Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
- Jan 18 Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch Classical prof, baptized
- Feb 8 Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (d. 1770)
- Feb 10 Aaron Hill, English playwright/poet (Tragedy of Zara)
- Mar 12 George Berkeley, Irish philosopher/bishop of Cloyne
- Mar 17 Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter
- Mar 18 Ralph Ersine, Scottish minister (d. 1752)
- Jun 3 Cornelis Hop, Amsterdam regent/diplomat
- Jun 30 Dominikus Zimmermann, Bavarian Baroque architect and painter (Liebfrauenkirche), born in Gaispoint, Germany (d. 1766)
- Jul 3 Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer, born in Roos Hall, Beccles, England (d. 1768)
- Aug 18 Brook Taylor, English mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem, born in Edmonton, Middlesex, England (d. 1731)
- Oct 1 Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1711-40), born in Hofburg Palace, Vienna (d. 1740)
- Nov 17 Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
- Dec 6 Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France, born in Royal Palace, Turin, Savoy (d. 1712)
- Dec 17 Thomas Tickell, English writer and poet, born in Bridekirk, Cockermouth, England (d. 1740)