Editing 1698 (section)

=== July–September ===
* [[July 8]] – [[Nicolò Maria Antonelli]], Italian Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church (d. [[1767]])
* [[July 11]]
** [[Jean-Michel Chevotet]], French architect (d. [[1772]])
** [[George Turnbull (theologian)|George Turnbull]], Scottish philosopher (d. [[1748]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis]], French mathematician (d. [[1759]])
* [[July 19]]
** [[Johann Jakob Bodmer]], Swiss author (d. [[1783]])
** [[John Clavering (died 1762)|John Clavering]], English MP and Groom of the Bedchamber at the Court of George II (d. [[1762]])
* [[July 24]] – [[František Jiránek]], Czech (Bohemian) Baroque composer (d. [[1778]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Samuel Klingenstierna]], Swedish mathematician and scientist (d. [[1765]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Louis Fornel]], Canadian merchant (d. [[1745]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Erik Pontoppidan]], Danish author (d. [[1764]])
* [[August 29]]
** [[Richard Pearsall]], English Congregationalist minister, friend of Philip Doddridge (d. [[1762]])
** [[Jacob Vernet]], prominent theologian in Geneva (d. [[1789]])
* [[September 6]] – [[Jean Thurel]], French soldier (d. [[1807]])
* [[September 8]]
** [[François Francoeur]], French composer and violinist (d. [[1787]])
** [[Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt]], princess of Hesse-Darmstadt and through her marriage a princess of Hesse-Kassel (d. [[1777]])
* [[September 14]] – [[Charles François de Cisternay du Fay]], French chemist and superintendent of the Jardin du Roi (d. [[1739]])
* [[September 15]] – [[Pier Francesco Guala]], Italian painter (d. [[1757]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Lewis Morris (speaker)|Lewis Morris]], colonial American judge (d. [[1762]])
* [[September 26]] – [[William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire]], British nobleman, Whig politician and MP (d. [[1755]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Joachim Christian von Tresckow]], Prussian Lieutenant General (d. [[1762]])