- Jan 1 William Wycherley, English dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at 74
- Jan 30 Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien, Queen of Poland (1676-96), dies at 74
- Feb 19 Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (b. 1634)
- Mar 8 Harald Vallerius, Swedish composer and teacher (1697 choral book), dies at 69
- Mar 10 Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, Austrian composer, dies at 48
- Mar 13 Georg Gabriel Schutz, German composer, dies at 46
- Apr 14 Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral
- Apr 26 John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England, dies at 65
- Apr 28 Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest and saint who preached Mariology (Secret of the Rosary; True Devotion to Mary), dies at 43
- Jun 2 Ogata Korin, Japanese painter
- Jun 5 Roger Cotes, English mathematician (Newton-Cates formulas), dies at 33
- Jun 8 Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (1690-1716), dies at 58
- Jun 9 Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander, executed in Delhi by Mughal forces at 45
- Jun 28 George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
- Jul 8 Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
- Jul 9 Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician, physicist and sound engineer who coined the name acoustics for the study of sound from the ancient Greek word ακουστός, meaning "able to be heard", dies at 63
- Aug 3 Sebastián Durón, Spanish composer, dies at 56
- Sep 25 Johann Christoph Pez, German Baroque composer, dies at 52
- Sep 26 Antoine Parent, French mathematician, dies at 50
- Sep 30 Heinrich Georg Neuss, German composer, Lutheran theologian, and poet, dies at 62
- Oct 28 Stephen Fox, English politician, dies at 89
- Nov 2 Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler, dies at 65
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
Nov 14 German philosopher and mathematician (differential and integral calculus), dies at 70
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