- Jan 1 Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician, dies at 80
- Jan 16 Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
- Feb 3 Henri Madin, French composer, dies at 49
- Feb 18 Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal, dies at 70
- Mar 14 George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)
- Mar 23 Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer and musicologist, dies at 63
- Apr 12 William Kent, English sculptor/architect (Kensington Palace), dies
- May 12 Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer, founder of the Lowndean professorship of astronomy at Cambridge University (b. 1692)
- Jun 28 Marretje Arends [Matje of Nieuwendijk], Amsterdam plunderer, hanged
- Jun 28 Pieter van Dort, Amsterdam plunderer, hanged
- Aug 16 Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, Italian composer, dies at 63
- Aug 27 James Thomson, Scottish poet (Rule, Britannia), dies at 47
- Sep 6 Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
- Sep 10 Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, Filipino Religious Sister of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 85
- Sep 21 John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
- Nov 25 Isaac Watts, English writer, preacher and hymnist (Horae Lyrican), dies at 74
- Dec 2 Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician, dies at 86
- Dec 11 Ewald G. von Kleist, German lawyer/, inventor of condensator, dies at 55
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