- Jan 6 Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, Spanish composer, born in Calatayud, Spain (d. 1768)
- Feb 10 Jean-Pierre Guignon [né Giovanni Pietro Ghignone], Italian-French violinist and composer, born in Turin, Duchy of Savoy (now Italy) (d. 1774)
- Feb 27 Johann Valentin Gorner, composer
- Mar 25 Christian Gottlieb Ziegler, composer
- Mar 27 Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer, born in Jettingen-Scheppach, Germany (d. 1762)
- Jul 6 Franz Anton Maichelbeck, German composer, born in Reichenau, Germany (d. 1750)
- Jul 17 Johann Schneider, German composer and pupil of Bach, born in Coburg, Bavaria, Germany (d. 1788)
- Sep 6 Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, German composer, born in Wenigenehrich, Germany (d. 1775)