- Apr 14 Emanuele Barbella, Neapolitan composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, House of Habsburg (now Italy) (d. 1777)
- Jun 27 Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1763)
- Aug 9 Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher, German composer, born in Murnau, Bavaria (d. 1782)
- Nov 13 Anton Laube, Bohemian composer, born in BrĂ¼x (d. 1784)