Birthdays in Music
- Jan 15 Joseph Lederer, composer
- Jan 17 Thomas Linley the elder, English composer and tenor, born in Badminton, Gloucestershire (d. 1795)
- Mar 5 Vincenzo Galeotti, [Tomazelli], Italian dancer/choreographer
- Apr 2 Giacomo Tritto, Italian composer, born in Altamura, Italy (d. 1824)
- Apr 13 Johann Heinrich Zang, composer
- Aug 24 David Traugott Nicolai, German composer, born in Görlitz, Germany (d. 1799)
- Sep 22 Anton Filtz [Fils], German composer, born in Eichstätt (d. 1760)
- Oct 3 Francois Krafft, composer
- Oct 28 Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer