- Jan 20 Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, Italian composer and mandolin player, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1732)
- Mar 24 Georg Philipp Telemann, German late baroque composer, born in Magdeburg, Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1767)
- Apr 11 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer (Concert Spirituel), born in Paris (d. 1728)
- Aug 22 Pierre Danican Philidor, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1731)
- Sep 28 Johann Mattheson, German composer, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1764)
- Dec 14 Giuseppe Valentini, Italian violinist, poet, and composer, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy) (d. 1753)