- Feb 19 Charles-Hubert Gervais, French baroque composer, born at the Palais Royal in Paris, France (d. 1744)
- Mar 26 Giacomo Cesare Predieri, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Papal States (d. 1753)
- May 21 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, Italian organist and composer, born in Siena (d. 1755)
- Jun 8 Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (Adagio in G-minor), born in Venice (d. 1751)
- Jun 30 Teodorico Pedrini, also known as De Lige, Italian Vincentian priest, musician, composer, and missionary at the imperial court of China (1711-46), born in Fermo, Marche, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1746)
- Dec 1 Francesco Stradivari, Italian violin maker and son of Antonius, born in Cremona, Duchy of Milan, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1743)