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== Deaths ==
* [[January 17]] – [[Isabella Simons]], banker in the Austrian Netherlands (b. [[1694]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Francis George of Schönborn-Buchheim]] (b. [[1682]])
* [[February 22]] – [[Akdun]], Chinese Manchu statesman (b. [[1685]])
[[File:Eliza-haywood.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Eliza Haywood]]]]
* [[February 25]] – [[Eliza Haywood]], English actress, writer (b. [[1693]])
* [[March 1]] – [[Antonio Bernacchi]], Italian opera singer (b. [[1685]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Marie Sophie de Courcillon]], French noblewoman and Duchess of Rohan-Rohan, Princess of Soubise by marriage (b. [[1713]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Giacomo Antonio Perti]], Italian composer (b. [[1661]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Jacques Cassini]], French astronomer (b. [[1677]])
* [[July 1]] – [[Giambattista Nolli]], Italian architect (b. [[1701]])
* [[July 24]] – [[George Vertue]], English engraver, antiquary (b. [[1684]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Jonathan Nichols, Jr.]], Rhode Island colonial deputy governor (b. [[1712]])
* [[September 22]] – [[Abu l-Hasan Ali I]], ruler of Tunisia (b. [[1688]])
* [[October 13]] – [[John Henley (clergyman)|John Henley]], English minister (b. [[1692]])
* [[October 15]] – [[William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston]], Irish noble (b. [[1684]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière]], governor of New France (b. [[1693]])
* [[October 28]] – [[Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort]] (b. [[1709]])
* [[December 8]] – [[William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington]], English statesman, diplomat (b. c. [[1690]])
* [[December 11]] – [[Maria Amalia, Holy Roman Empress]] (b. [[1701]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Bernard Accama]], Dutch painter (b. [[1697]])
** [[Frehat Bat Avraham]], Jewish Poet
** [[William Beverley]], American legislator, civil servant, planter, and landowner (b. [[1696]])<ref name="W&M1">{{cite book | last=William and Mary Quarterly | author-link=William and Mary Quarterly | year=2006 | title=Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly | publisher=Clearfield Company, Inc., by Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. | location=Baltimore | isbn=978-0-8063-0955-2 | oclc=79476264 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-omPLYeCtsQC | via=[[Google Books]] | archive-date=2016-04-06 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406062103/https://books.google.com/books?id=-omPLYeCtsQC | url-status=live|page=887}}</ref><ref name="Gwathmey3">{{cite book | last=Gwathmey | first=John Hastings | year=1979 | title=Twelve Virginia Counties: Where the Western Migration Began | publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. | location=Baltimore | isbn=978-0-8063-0861-6 | oclc=5777452 | url=https://archive.org/details/twelvevirginiaco00gwat | url-access=registration | via=[[Internet Archive]]|page=175 }}</ref>