- Mar 8 Harald Vallerius, Swedish composer and teacher (1697 choral book), dies at 69
- Mar 10 Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, Austrian composer, dies at 48
- Mar 13 Georg Gabriel Schutz, German composer, dies at 46
- Jul 9 Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician, physicist and sound engineer who coined the name acoustics for the study of sound from the ancient Greek word ακουστός, meaning "able to be heard", dies at 63
- Aug 3 Sebastián Durón, Spanish composer, dies at 56
- Sep 25 Johann Christoph Pez, German Baroque composer, dies at 52
- Sep 30 Heinrich Georg Neuss, German composer, Lutheran theologian, and poet, dies at 62
- Nov 22 Johann Aegidius Bach, German violist, organist, and orchestra leader, buried after death at 60
- Dec 6 Benedictus Buns, Dutch Carmelite and composer (b. 1642)
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