Events in Music
- Jan 31 Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon" premieres at the Palais-Royal in Paris
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 5 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, Italian composer, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1750)
- Jan 19 Girolamo Chiti, Italian composer and music theorist, born in Siena (d. 1759)
- Feb 14 Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, German composer, born in Ostramondra, Thuringia, Germany (d. 1735)
- Feb 24 Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer
- May 12 Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, Italian composer and castrato (d. 1746)
- Sep 28 Mihael Omerza, Slovenian composer, born in Kamnik, Slovekia (d. 1742)
- Oct 16 Jan Dismas Zelenka, Bohemian composer born at Louňovice, Lands of the Bohemian Crown (d. 1745)
- Nov 10 Johann Christian Schieferdecker, German composer, born in Teuchern, Germany (d. 1732)
- Nov 14 Omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius
- Dec 24 Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian composer, born in Trani, Italy (d. 1744)