- May 3 Friedrich Wilhelm Weis, German physician and composer, born in Göttingen, Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (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)