Editing 1726 (section)

== Deaths ==
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Domenico Zipoli]], Tuscan-born composer and Jesuit missionary (b. [[1688]])
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Hercule-Louis Turinetti, marquis of Prié]] (b. [[1658]])
* [[January 19]] 
** [[Franz Beer]], Austrian architect (b. [[1659]])
** [[Giovanni Battista Tolomei]], Italian Jesuit priest, theologian and cardinal (b. [[1653]])
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Guillaume Delisle]], French cartographer (b. [[1675]])
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Jacques Carrey]], French painter (b. [[1649]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria]] (b. [[1662]])
* [[March 5]] &ndash; [[Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull]], English politician (b. c. [[1665]])
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Henrietta Catharina, Baroness von Gersdorff]], German noblewoman; poet (b. [[1648]])
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Alexander Pendarves]], British politician (b. [[1662]])
[[File:John Vanbrugh.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Vanbrugh]]]]
* [[March 14]] &ndash; Chhatrapati [[Shivaji II|Shivaji Raje Bhonsale 2nd]], 5th Maratha Emperor (b. [[1696]]) 
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[John Vanbrugh]], English architect and dramatist (b. [[1664]])
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Jeremy Collier]], English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (b. [[1650]])
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Thomas Pitt]], British Governor of Madras (b. [[1653]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Pitt {{!}} British merchant |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Pitt |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=20 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans]], English soldier (b. [[1670]])
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Michel Richard Delalande]], French organist, composer (b. [[1657]])
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[Galeazzo Marescotti]], Italian Catholic cardinal (b. [[1627]])
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[John Ker]], Scottish spy (b. [[1673]])
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Hugh Drysdale]], British Colonial Governor of Virginia
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Nicolaus II Bernoulli]], Swiss mathematician (b. [[1695]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Yuntang|Aixinjueluo Yuntang]], born ''Aixinjueluo Yintang'', Qing prince (b. [[1683]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Jean Boivin the Younger]], French writer (b. [[1663]])
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[Anton Domenico Gabbiani]], Italian painter (b. [[1652]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Sophia Dorothea of Celle]], queen consort of [[George I of Great Britain]] (b. [[1666]])
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Samuel Penhallow]], American colonist, historian (b. [[1665]])