- Jan 8 Jean Gilles, French composer, born in Tarascon, France (d. 1705)
- Mar 19 Francesco Gasparini, Italian baroque composer (Ambleto; Missa Canonica), born in Camaiore, Republic of Lucca (d. 1727)
- Mar 29 Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist (Founder of the Foundling Hospital), born in Lyme Regis, Dorset (d. 1751)
- Apr 14 Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General and statesman, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1741)
- Apr 20 Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739)
- May 6 Alain-René Lesage, French author (Turcaret ou le Financier), born in Sarzeau, France (d. 1747)
- Jun 21 Cajetan Kolberer, composer, born in Salzburg, Austria (d. 1732)
- Jun 23 Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (New Science), born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples (d. 1744)
- Jul 6 Pieter Burman the Elder, Dutch classical scholar, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1741)
- Oct 18 John George IV, Elector of Saxony (1691-94), born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1684)
- Oct 30 Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, 1st Queen consort of Prussia (1701-05), born in Iburg Castle, Osnabrück, Hanover (d. 1705)
- Nov 10 François Couperin, French composer and organist (Les Concerts Royaux), born in Paris, France (d. 1733)
- Nov 10 Louis III, Prince of Condé and Duke de Bourbon, born in Paris (d. 1710)
- Nov 11 Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1736)
- Nov 27 Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (1717-50), born in Limoges, France (d. 1751)
- Nov 27 Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German musician, composer, and instrument inventor, born in Eiseleben, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1750)
- Dec 3 Casimir Schweizelsperg, German composer, born in Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria (d. sometime after 1722)
- Dec 31 Hermannus Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician, born in Voorhout, Netherlands (d. 1738)
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