Feb 22 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, German musicologist (1st biography of Johann Sebastian Bach), born in Meeder, Coburg (d. 1818)
Mar 10 Lorenzo Da Ponte [Emanuele Conegliano], Italian-American librettist (Don Giovanni), poet, and libertine priest, born in Ceneda, Republic of Venice (now Vittorio Veneto, Italy) (d. 1838)
Mar 23 Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1802)
Mar 24 Bernard Jumentier, French composer, primarily of sacred music, born in Lèves, France (d. 1829)
Apr 21 Johann Michael Malzat, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1787)
May 5 Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French composer, born in Strasbourg, France (d. 1794) [1]
Jun 15 George Joseph Vogler, German composer, organist and teacher, born in Würzburg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1814)
Jun 23 Konrad Back, German monastic composer, born in Haigerloch, County of Hohenzollern, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1810)
Jun 26 Louis Joseph Claude Saint-Amans, French composer, born in Marseille, France (d. 1820)
Aug 26 Johann Ernst Rembt, German organist and composer, born in Suhl, Germany (d. 1810)
Oct 4 Jean-Louis Duport, French cellist and composer, born in France (d. 1819)
Nov 10 Prince Maciej Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian noble, composer and librettist, born in Szydłowiec, Poland (d. 1800)
Dec 17 Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Il Matrimonio Segreto), born in Aversa, Italy (d. 1801)
Dec 23 Johann Lukas Schubaur, German composer, and physician, baptized in Lechfeld, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1815)