- Jan 7 George Clifford III, Dutch director of East India Company and plant collector (grew 1st banana indoors), born in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (d. 1760)
- Jan 7 Jonas Alströmer [Torreson], Swedish industrialist (wool, shipbuilding, potato cultivation, sugar refinery, cutlery, tannery), and co-founder the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1739), born in Alingsås, Sweden (d. 1761)
- Jan 18 Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch Classical professor, baptized (d. 1766)
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