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== Deaths ==
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Josiah Franklin]], English-born American businessman, father of Benjamin Franklin (b. [[1657]])
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1697]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Joseph Effner]], German architect (b. [[1687]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Henry Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort]], English nobleman (b. [[1707]])
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Tommaso Crudeli]], Florentine free thinker imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition (b. [[1702]])
[[File:Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford by Arthur Pond.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Robert Walpole]]]]
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Robert Walpole]], first [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]] (b. [[1676]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford {{!}} prime minister of Great Britain |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Walpole-1st-Earl-of-Orford |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=1 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Tomaso Antonio Vitali]], Italian violinist and composer (b. [[1663]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie]], French military leader (b. [[1671]])
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet]], British politician (b. [[1686]])
[[File:Jonathan Swift by Charles Jervas detail.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jonathan Swift]]]]
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Swift]], Anglo-Irish writer (b. [[1667]])
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Isaac Greenwood]], American mathematician (b. [[1702]])
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde]], exiled Irish statesman and soldier (b. [[1665]])
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Étienne Fourmont]], French orientalist (b. [[1683]])
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste van Loo]], French painter (b. [[1684]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Jan Dismas Zelenka]], Bohemian composer (b. [[1679]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie (1695–1745)|Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie]], Swedish-born salonnière (b. [[1695]])