- Jan 4 Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer
- Feb 10 Pierre de La Garde, French composer, singer, and guitarist, born in Crécy-la-Chapelle, France (d. c. 1792)
- Feb 24 Bernhard Hupfeld, composer
- Feb 26 John Randall, British organist and hymn composer, born in Cambridge, England (d. 1799)
- Mar 26 Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, Spanish theorist and composer, born in Las Herencias, Toledo, Spain (d. 1779)
- Mar 31 Florian Wrastill, Austrian composer of sacred music, choir master, and Benedictine monk, born near Königgrätz, Bohemia [now Hradec Králové, Czech Republic] (d.1758)
- Apr 9 Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1750)
- Apr 30 Guillaume-Gommaire Kennis, Belgian violinist and composer, born in Lier, Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1789)
- Jun 18 Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, Czech composer, born in Německý Brod, Bohemia (d. 1757)
- Aug 13 Christoph Nichelmann, German composer and harpsichordist, born in Treuenbrietzen, Germany (d. 1762)