- Dec 1 Dismas Hatas, Czech composer, born in Vysoké Mýto (d. 1777)
- Dec 5 Joseph Friebert, Austrian composer, born in Gnadendorf, Lower Austria (d. 1799)
- Dec 8 Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, French organist, harpsichordist, and composer, born in Dijon, France (d. 1799)
- Dec 11 Charles Theodore, German Elector of Bavaria (1742-77), born in Drogenbos, Brussels, Austrian Netherlands (d. 1799)
Samuel Hood (1724-1816)
Dec 12 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral in the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary Wars, born in Butleigh, England
- Dec 13 Franz Aepinus, German physician and physicist, born in Rostock, Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1802)
- Dec 24 Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician, naturalist, and instructor of non-verbal deaf persons, born in Schaffhausen, Netherlands (d. 1811)
- Dec 31 Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, Czech organist and composer, born in Lahošť, Czech Republic (d. 1788)
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