Births
- January 7 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
- January 9 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766)
- February 8 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (d. 1770)
- February 10 – Aaron Hill, English writer (d. 1750)
- February 23 – George Frideric Handel, German composer (d. 1759)
- March 12 – George Berkeley, English philosopher (d. 1753)
- March 18 – Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (d. 1752)
- March 21 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750)
- June 30 – John Gay, English writer (d. 1732)
- July 3 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)
- August 18 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician (d. 1731)
- October 1 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1740)
- October 26 – Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
- November 17 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
- December 17 – Thomas Tickell, English writer (d. 1740)
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)