- Jul 19 Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, Flemish composer, dies at 49
- Aug 10 Sebastien de Brossard, French composer and music theorist, dies at 74
- Aug 17 Mauritius Vogt, German composer, dies at 61
- Aug 31 Gottfried Finger, Moravian violist and Baroque composer dies at about 65 [born c. 1655-56]