- Feb 2 Gottfried August Homilius, German organist and composer (Weihnachtsoratorium), born in Rosenthal, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1785)
- Mar 8 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of J. S. Bach, born in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1788)
- Mar 24 Carlo Giovanni Testori, Italian violinist, composer, pedagogue, and musicologist (La musica raggionata), born in Vercelli, Kingdom of Venice (d. 1782)
- Jul 2 Christoph Willibald Gluck, Austrian composer (Il re pastore), born in Erasbach, Germany (d. 1787)
- Sep 10 Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer, born in Aversa, Kingdom of Naples (d. 1774)
- Dec 23 Johann Siebenkas, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1781)
- Dec 24 Rainieri de' Calzabigi, Italian poet and librettist, born in Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (d. 1795)
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