- Jan 6 Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian oboe virtuoso and late Baroque/early classical composer who served the court of the Prince of Wales, born in Milan, Duchy of Milan (d. 1750)
- Feb 2 François de Chevert, French general (d. 1769)
- Feb 2 William Borlase, English naturalist (d. 1772)
- Feb 6 André Chéron, French composer and organist and harpsichordist, born in Paris, France (d. 1766)
- Feb 6 Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician, born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1726)
- Mar 17 Antoine Court, French minister and itinerant preacher in the Reformed church who restored Protestantism to France, born in Villeneuve-de-Berg, France (d. 1760)
- Apr 8 Johann Christian Gunther, German poet, born in Striegau, Silesia (d. 1723)
- Apr 10 Balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator and historian, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1778)
- Apr 12 Caspar Burman, Dutch historian and Mayor of Utrecht, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1755)
- May 2 Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-French architect, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy) (d. 1766)
- May 3 Henri Pitot, Italian-French engineer, born in Aramon, France (d. 1771)
- Jun 5 Johann Conrad Schlaun, German baroque architect (Schloss Münster), born in Nörde, Warburg, Germany (d. 1773)
- Jun 6 Adriaen Valckenier, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1737-41), born in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (d. 1751)
- Sep 3 Pietro Locatelli, Italian violinist and composer, born in Bergamo, Republic of Venice (now Italy) (d. 1764)
- Sep 5 Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1770)
- Sep 21 John Glas, Scottish Presbyterian clergyman (started Glasite church movement), born in Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland (d. 1773)
- Nov 10 John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (discovered Crab Nebula), born in Old Sarum, Wiltshire (d. 1771)
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