- Oct 3 Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist, born in Mondovì, Piedmont, Italy (d. 1781)
- Oct 6 George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman, born in Dover, England (d. 1771)
- Oct 25 Petronio Maria Pio Sgabazzi, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. after 1740)