- Mar 18 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian Baroque composer (d. 1743)
- May 5 Jacques Danican Philidor, French composer (d. 1708)
- Jun 3 Manuel de Egues, Spanish composer, born in San Martin del Rio, Spain (d. 1729)
- Jul 25 Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, German composer, born in Esens, Germany (d. 1714)
- Nov 8 Thomas Bullis Jr., English composer (d. 1712)
- Dec 15 Michel-Richard Delalande, French organist and baroque composer (De Profundis), born in Paris (d. 1726)