Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
Feb 13 American Puritan minister (Salem witchcraft trials), dies at 65
- Mar 8 Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, Italian literary and critic (Arcadia), dies at 64
- Apr 3 James Anderson, Scottish lawyer (b. 1662)
- Apr 13 Johann Christoph Schmidt, German composer, dies at 63
- Apr 23 Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco, Spanish organist, composer (La púrpura de la rosa), and maestro de capilla (Catedral de Lima, Peru, 1676-1707), dies at 83
- Apr 25 John Woodward, English geologist known for his collection of fossils and physician, dies at 62
- Jul 26 John Friend, physician/politician, dies
- Aug 12 Henricus Zwaardecroon, Dutch Governor-General of Dutch East Indies (1718-25) who introduced coffee crop to Java, dies at 61
- Aug 15 Marin Marais, French composer, dies at 72
- Aug 26 Anne Marie of Orléans, Queen of Italy, dies at 58
- Sep 23 Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b. 1655)
- Oct 8 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer (Concert Spirituel), dies at 47
- Nov 10 Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (Great Northern War, Russo-Persian War) and Governor of Estonia and Karelia (1712-23), dies at 67
Assassination
Drug Overdose
Gunshot Wound
Murder
Plane Crash
Suicide