17 – Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter (d. 1766) March 18 – Ralph Erskine (preacher), Scottish churchman (d. 1752) March 24 – John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland, British politician (d. 1762) March 26 Germain Louis Chauvelin, French politician (d. 1762) Johann Alexander Thiele, German painter (d. 1752) March 27 – Simon Hatley, English sailor (d. 1723) March 31 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750) April 4 – Claude Sallier, French librarian (d. 1761) April 18 – Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière, French admiral, colonial administrator (d. 1752) April 24 – Cosimo Imperiali, Italian cardinal (d. 1764) April 30 – Hermann Friedrich Teichmeyer, German botanist (d. 1746) May 4 – Akdun, Chinese Manchu statesman (d. 1756) May 6 – Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prussian queen consort (d. 1735) May 19 – Neri Maria Corsini, Italian Catholic priest and cardinal (d. 1770) June 6 – Spencer Phips, Acting governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1757) June 10 – Harry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford, English peer (d. 1739) June 11 – Thomas Wedgwood III, English potter, father of Josiah Wedgwood (d. 1739) June 14 – Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, countess by marriage of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1767) June 23 – Antonio Bernacchi, Italian opera singer (d. 1756) June 24 – Hans von Lehwaldt, German general (d. 1768) June 30 John Gay, English writer (d. 1732) Dominikus Zimmermann, German Rococo architect, stuccoist (d. 1766) July 3 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768) July 22 – Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock, Swedish general, noble (d. 1743) July 28 – Richard Newport (MP) (d. 1716) August 6 – Martin Bouquet, French Benedictine monk and historian (d. 1754) August 7 – Claude Lamoral, 6th Prince of Ligne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766) August 8 – Claude Joseph Geoffroy, brother of Étienne François Geoffroy (d. 1752) August 15 – Jacob Theodor Klein, German scholar (d. 1759) August 18 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician (d. 1731) September 2 – Christiane Charlotte of Nassau-Ottweiler, Countess, later Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1761) September 3 – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton (d. 1754) September 4 – Johann Adolf II, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (d. 1746) September 14 – Didier Diderot, French craftsman (d. 1759) September 16 – Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt, German scientist (d. 1735) September 17 Joshua Allen, 2nd Viscount Allen, Irish politician (d. 1742) Charles August, Prince