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=== October–December ===
* [[October 6]] – [[François-Bernard Lépicié]], 18th-century French engraver (d. [[1755]])
* [[October 7]] – [[Henry Madin]], French composer at the Chapelle royale (d. [[1748]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Jean Paul Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac]], Marshal of France (d. [[1784]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Giacomo Ceruti]], Italian late Baroque painter (d. [[1767]])
* [[October 23]]
** [[Ange-Jacques Gabriel]], principal architect of King Louis XV of France (d. [[1782]])
** [[John Jortin]], English church historian (d. [[1770]])
* [[October 30]]
** [[Peter Thompson (antiquarian)|Peter Thompson]], English merchant (d. [[1770]])
** [[Paul Troger]], Austrian painter (d. [[1762]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Caleb Fleming]], English dissenting minister and Polemicist (d. [[1779]])
* [[November 6]] – [[Sir Alexander Lauder, 4th Baronet]] (d. [[1730]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Alberico Archinto]], Italian cardinal and papal diplomat (d. [[1758]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Maria Taylor Byrd]], colonial woman who managed her and her husband William Byrd II's Westover Plantation when he was absent (d. [[1771]])
* [[November 22]] – [[Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial]], Canadian-born colonial governor of French Canada in North America (d. [[1778]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Jacob Johann Köhler]], Estonian printer who published the first Estonian-language Bible in 1739 (d. [[1757]])
* [[November 24]] – [[Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry]], Scottish nobleman, extensive landowner, Privy Counsellor, Vice Admiral of Scotland (d. [[1778]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Charlotta Frölich]], Swedish agronomist (d. [[1770]])
* [[December 2]] – [[Oliver Legipont]], German Benedictine bibliographer (d. [[1758]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Anthony Mooyart]], acting Governor of Ceylon during the Dutch period in Ceylon (d. [[1767]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Mark Hiddesley]], Anglican churchman (d. [[1773]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Paul Fourdrinier]], English engraver (d. [[1758]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton]], powerful Jacobite politician (d. [[1731]])
* [[December 24]] – [[William Warburton]], English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (d. [[1779]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Jacobus Houbraken]], Dutch engraver and the son of the artist and biographer Arnold Houbraken (d. [[1780]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Filippo della Valle]], Italian late-Baroque or early Neoclassic sculptor (d. [[1768]])
* [[December 27]] – [[Vlaho Kabužić]], Ragusan nobleman and diplomat (d. [[1750]])
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**[[Bernard Forest de Bélidor]], French engineer (d. [[1761]])
**[[William Moraley]], English-American indentured servant and autobiographer, a primary source for life in the [[Province of Pennsylvania]] (d. [[1762]])
**[[Baal Shem Tov]], Polish rabbi and founder of the [[Hasidic movement]] of Judaism.