- Jan 5 Jacob Balthasar Schutz, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1700)
- Jan 30 Charles Rollin, French historian, born in Paris (d. 1741)
- Mar 25 Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)
- Apr 11 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet, born in Paris (d. 1722)
- Apr 16 Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman, born in Horton, Northamptonshire, England (d. 1715)
- May 25 Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1737)
- Jun 6 Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, and Maestro di Cappella (San Petronio, 1696-1756), born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1756)
- Jun 9 Tsar Feodor III of Russia (1676-82), born in Moscow, Tsardom of Russia (d. 1682)
- Jul 20 Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French Canadian sailor, explorer and adventurer (Hudson Bay, Louisiana), born in Montréal, New France (d. 1706)
- Sep 2 Georg Böhm, German organist and composer, born in Hohenkirchen, Mecklenburg-Güstrow (now Germany) (d. 1733)
- Oct 11 Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat, Cardinal and poet, born in Chateau de la Ronte, Haute-Loire, France (d. 1741)
- Oct 27 Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (Great Northern War, Russo-Persian War) and Governor of Estonia and Karelia (1712-23), (d. 1728)
- Nov 1 Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (Le Chevalier à la mode), born in Fontainebleau, France (d. 1725)
- Nov 4 Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (1716-42), born in Neuburg an der Donau, Germany (d. 1742)
- Nov 6 Charles II of Spain, last Habsburg King of Spain (reigns 1665-1700), born in Royal Alcazar of Madrid, Spain (d. 1700)
- Nov 15 Christoph von Graffenried, British peer from Switzerland who founded New Bern, Carolina, born in Worb Castle, Bern, Switzerland (d. 1743)
- Nov 28 Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)
- Dec 5 Robert Haley, 1st Earl of Oxford and English premier (Whig, 1710-14), born in Covent Garden, Middlesex, Kingdom of England (d. 1725)
- Dec 5 Robert Harley, English diplomat and statesman (Lord High Treasurer, 1711-14; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1710-11; Secretary of State, 1704-08), born in Covent Garden, Middlesex, Kingdom of England (d. 1724)
- Dec 18 Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (d. 1751)
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