- Jan 19 John Weldon, English composer, born in Chichester, England (d. 1736)
- Mar 17 Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)
- Mar 27 Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian nobleman and leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg, born in Borsi, Royal Hungary (d. 1735)
- Apr 14 Ernst Christian Hesse, German composer, born in Großengottern, Thuringia, Electorate of Saxony (d. 1762)
- Apr 17 Frederik I, van Hessen Kassel, King of Sweden (1720-51), born in Kassel, Germany (d. 1751)
- May 28 Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (Riccati equation), born in Venice, Venetian Republic (d. 1754)
- Jun 6 Georg Riedel, German composer, born in Königsberg, Brandenburg-Prussia (d. 1738)
- Jul 1 Anthony Collins, English philosopher (A Dscourse On Free-Thinking), born in Hounslow, Middlesex, England (d. 1729) [birth date June 21 O.S.]
- Jul 3 Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal, born in Dessau, Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1747)
- Jul 14 Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet, born in Hindenburg in der Altmark, Saxony-Anhalt (d. 1763)
Robert Walpole (1676-1745)
Aug 26 1st British Prime Minister (Whig: 1721-42), born in Houghton, Norfolk, England
- Sep 13 Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, Duchess of Lorraine, born in Château de Saint-Cloud, France (d. 1744)
- Sep 18 Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg, born in Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1733)
- Oct 8 Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar, born in Casdemiro, Spain (d. 1764)
- Nov 12 Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, Italian composer, born in Brescia, Republic of Venice (d. 1746)
- Dec 11 Johann Georg Weichenberger, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1740)
- Dec 19 Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French organist and composer, born in Paris, France (d. 1749)
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