- Feb 3 Florido Tomeoni, Italian composer (d. 1820)
- Feb 11 Albert Christoph Dies, German painter, engraver and biographer of Josef Haydn, born in Hanover (d. 1822)
- Feb 13 Francois Alexander Sallantin, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1816)
- Mar 2 Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, Belgian composer, born in Liège (d. 1799)
- Mar 10 Philipp Christoph Kayser, German composer and pianist, born in Frankfurt (d. 1823)
- Mar 14 Pierre-Louis Couperin, French organist and composer (d. 1789)
- Apr 4 Vincenc Mašek, Bohemian composer, born in Zvíkovec, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1831)
- May 19 Gabriele Prota, Italian composer, born in Naples (d. 1843)
- Jun 1 Frederigo Fiorillo, Italian violist, mandolinist, and composer, baptized in Brunswick (d. 1823)
- Jul 29 Franz Gotz, Bohemian composer, born in Strašice (d. 1815)
- Aug 1 Antonio Capuzzi, Italian violinist and composer, born in Brescia, Italy (d. 1818)
- Aug 8 Luigi Marchesi, Italian castrato singer, born in Milan, Habsburg Empire (now Italy) (d. 1829)
- Aug 31 Johann Ignaz Walter, German opera singer and composer, born in Perutz, Bohemia (d. 1822)