- Jan 16 Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (Mémoires), born in Paris (d. 1755)
- Feb 17 Johann Melchior Conradi, German composer, born in Oettingen, County of Oettingen, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1756)
- Feb 21 Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)
- Feb 26 Johann Philipp Treiber, German composer, born in Arnstadt, Electorate of Saxony. Holy Roman Empire (d. 1727)
- Feb 28 Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
- Mar 17 Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, Polish composer, born in Bruskowo Wielkie, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1721)
- Mar 31 Benedict XIV [Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini], Italian Pope (1740-58), born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1758)
- May 29 Humphry Ditton, English mathematician, born in Salisbury, England (d. 1715)
- Jun 1 Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)
- Jul 5 Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials, born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1720)
- Jul 12 Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco, Italian cellist and composer, born in Verona, Republic of Venice (now Italy) (d. 1742)
- Jul 14 Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier who served the Ottoman Empire and converted to Islam, born in Coussac-Bonneval, France (d. 1747)
- Jul 25 James Thornhill, English painter (St. Paul's Cathedral dome), born in Melcombe Regis, Dorset, England (d. 1734) [some sources cite year as 1676]
- Aug 14 Johann Georg Christian Störl, composer, born in Kirchberg an der Jagst, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1719)
- Sep 2 William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
- Sep 3 Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts (d. 1751)
- Oct 11 Samuel Clarke, English philosopher and theologian, born in Norwich, England (d. 1729)
- Oct 21 Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
- Oct 24 Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician, born in Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany (d. 1749)
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
80-89
Over 90