- Jan 20 François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France, dies at 84
- Jan 24 George Rooke, English admiral, captured Spanish treasure fleet at Battle of Vigo Bay, dies at 58 or 59
- Feb 8 Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (Concerti Grossi), dies at 50
- Feb 9 François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general, dies at 44
- Feb 11 Louise Hollandine, Abbess and painter, daughter of King Frederik V of the Palatinate and Elizabeth Stuart, dies at 86
- Feb 19 Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (b. 1646)
- Mar 8 William Cowper/Cooper, English anatomist, dies at about 62
- Mar 9 Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat, dies at 70
- Jun 14 Gottfried Wegner, German theologian and hymn composer (court preacher at Konigsberg), dies at 65
- Jun 30 Edward Lhuyd, Welsh naturalist (Illustrations of the Figured Stones of Britain), dies at about 49
- Jul 17 Pascal Collasse, French Baroque theatre composer, dies at 60
- Jul 17 Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
- Sep 4 Jean-François Regnard, French comedic poet, dramatist and traveller (captured by pirates to be a slave in Algeria), dies at 54
- Sep 11 Oxenstiern, Dutch general, dies in the Battle of Malplaquet
- Sep 11 Spaar, Dutch General, dies in the Battle of Malplaquet
- Oct 9 Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England, dies at 68
- Nov 23 Hans Willem baron Bentinck, Dutch-English earl of Portland, dies at 60
- Dec 1 Abraham a Sancta Clara [Johann Ulrich Megerle], German court preacher and friar, dies at 65
- Dec 8 Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (Timocrates), dies at 74
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