- Feb 9 Amos Bull, American composer (The Responsary), born in Enfield, Connecticut (d. 1825)
- May 3 Friedrich Wilhelm Weis, German physician and composer, born in Göttingen, Germany (d. 1826)
- May 4 Marianne Martinez, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1812)
- May 18 Joseph Beer, Bohemian clarinetist, and composer (5th clarinet flap), born in Grünwald, Bohemia (d. 1812)
- Jun 18 Georg Augustin Holler, German composer, born in Luhe-Wildenau, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1814)
- Jul 20 Henri Hamal, Belgian organist and composer, born in Liège (d. 1820)
- Aug 11 Johann Gottlieb Schwencke, German bassoonist, born in Breitenau, Saxony (now Germany) (d. 1823)
- Sep 15 Georg Ritschel, German composer, born in Mannheim, Electorate of the Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1805)
- Oct 4 Domenico Corri, Italian composer, born in Rome (d. 1825)
- Nov 26 Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, German composer, born in Erlangen, Bavaria (d. 1785)
- Dec 8 Pierre-Joseph Candeille, French composer, born in Estaires, France (d. 1827)
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