- Jan 6 Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, Spanish composer, born in Calatayud, Spain (d. 1768)
- Jan 10 Johannes Zick, German fresco painter, born in Lachen, Germany (d. 1762)
- Jan 14 Nakamikado, 114th Emperor of Japan (1709-35), born in Kyoto, Japan (d. 1737)
- Jan 28 Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch lawyer (d. 1771)
- Feb 10 Jean-Pierre Guignon [Giovanni Pietro Ghignone], Italian-French violinist and composer, born in Turin, Duchy of Savoy (d. 1774)
- Feb 27 Johann Valentin Gorner, German composer, born in Penig, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1762)
- Mar 4 Jack Sheppard, English burglar and prison escapee known as "Honest Jack", born in White's Row, London (d. 1724)
Anne Bonny (1702-1782)
Mar 8 Irish Caribbean pirate and lover of Calico Jack [date of birth is approximate], born in Kinsale, Ireland
- Mar 25 Christian Gottlieb Ziegler, German organist, kapellmeister, and composer, born in Pulsnitz, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1772)
- Mar 25 Pieter Teyler Van der Hulst, Dutch silk merchant (founded Teyler's Museum), born in Haarlem, Dutch Republic (d. 1778)
- Mar 27 Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer, born in Jettingen-Scheppach, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1762)
- May 2 Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German Lutheran theologian, born in Göppingen, Germany (d. 1782)
- Jun 26 Philip Doddridge, English Nonconformist clergyman, born in London (d. 1751)
- Jul 6 Franz Anton Maichelbeck, German composer, born in Reichenau, Prince-Bishopric of Constance, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1750)
- Jul 17 Johann Schneider, German composer and pupil of Bach, born in Coburg, Duchy of Saxe-Coburg (now in Bavaria, Germany) (d. 1788)
- Jul 30 Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin, Russian general who commanded Russian armies during the Seven Years' War, (d. 1758)
- Jul 31 Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter, born in Dole, France (d. 1768)
- Aug 15 Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter and etcher, born in Pitigliano, Italy (d. 1788)
- Aug 16 Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre, Spanish military engineer and archaeologist who rediscovered the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum, born in Zaragoza, Spain (d. 1780)
- Sep 6 Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, German composer, born in Wenigenehrich, Imperial County of Reuss, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1775)
- Dec 22 Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter, art connoisseur, and dealer (Madame d'Epinay), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1789)