- Jan 4 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi [Draghi], Italian Baroque organist, composer (Il Prigioniero Superbo; La serva padrona (The Maid Turned Mistress); Stabat Mater), born in Jesi, The Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1736)
- Jan 7 Josef Antonin Sehling, Bohemian violinist and composer, born in Toužim, Western Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1756)
- Jan 30 Vigilio Blasio Faitello, Italian composer, born in Bolzano, Holy Roman Empire (now Italy) (d. 1768)
- Mar 6 Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, Italian composer, born in Padua, Italy (d. c. 1763)
Thomas Arne (1710-1778)
Mar 12 British composer (Rule Britannia, A-Hunting We Will Go), born in London
- Mar 27 Joseph Abaco, Italian composer, born in Brussels, Spanish Netherlands (d. 1805)
- Apr 12 Caffarelli [Gaetano Majorano], Italian castrato soprano, born in Bitonto, Kingdom of Naples, Habsburg Empire (now Italy) (d. 1783)
- Apr 15 Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, French dancer, born in Brussels, Spanish Netherlands (d. 1770)
- Jul 7 Arvid Niclas von Höpken, Swedish nobleman, soldier, and composer (Il Re Pastore), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1778)
- Nov 22 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer and son of J.S. Bach (Sinfonias 64), born in Weimar, Germany (d. 1784)
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