- Feb 13 Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, Spanish composer, born in Barcelona (d. 1751)
- Mar 10 Christian Friedrich Schale, German composer (d. 1800)
- Mar 10 Raphael Weiss, German composer and priest, born in Wangen (d. 1779)
- Mar 25 Jean-Baptiste Canavas, Italian composer and cellist, born in Turin (d. 1784)
- Apr 13 Pierre Jélyotte, French composer, born in Lasseube, France (d. 1797)
- Oct 3 Antoine Dauvergne, French composer, born in Moulins, Alier, France (d. 1797)
- Oct 10 Johann Ludwig Krebs, German organist and composer, born in Buttelstedt, Germany (d. 1780)