- Jan 22 Giuseppe Luigi Tibaldi, Italian tenor and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. c. 1790)
- Apr 18 Gaétan Vestris, French ballet dancer, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (d. 1808)
- May 2 Florian Johann Deller, Austrian composer, baptized in Drosendorf, Austria (d. 1773)
- May 3 Florian Leopold Gassmann, Bohemian composer, born in Brüx, Bohemia (d. 1774)
- Sep 22 George Wilhelm Gruber, German composer and violinist, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1796)
- Oct 16 (Pieter) Pierre van Maldere, Flemish violinist and composer, born in Brussels, Southern Low Countries (now Belgium), (d. 1768)
- Oct 17 Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French opera composer (La belle Arsène), born in Fauquembergues, France (d. 1817)
- Dec 1 Giuseppe Sarti, Italian composer, born in Faenza, (d. 1802)
- Dec 3 Antonio Soler, Spanish Catalan composer (Fandango), born in Olot, Catalonia, Spain (d. 1783)
- Dec 20 František Xaver Pokorný Czech violinist and composer, born in Městec Králové, Lands of the Bohemian Crown (d. 1794)
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