Musicians Born in 1679

  • Jan 5 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, Italian composer, born in Rome, Papal States (d. 1750)
  • Jan 19 Girolamo Chiti, Italian composer and music theorist, born in Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (d. 1759)
  • Feb 14 Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, German composer, born in Ostramondra, Thuringia, Electorate of Saxony (d. 1735)
  • May 12 Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, Italian composer and castrato singer, born in Venice, Republic of Venice (d. 1746)
  • Sep 28 Mihael Omerza, Slovenian composer, born in Kamnik, Slovekia (d. 1742)
  • Oct 16 Jan Dismas Zelenka, Bohemian composer, born in 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 and son of Antonius, born in Cremona, Duchy of Milan, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1742)
  • Dec 24 Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian composer, born in Trani, Kingdom of Naples (d. 1744)