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== Deaths ==
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Robert Blair (poet)|Robert Blair]], Scottish poet and cleric (b. [[1699]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Anton Josef Kirchweger]], German writer
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham]], British politician (b. [[1715]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Hermann von der Hardt]], German historian (b. [[1660]])
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia]], regent of Russia (b. [[1718]])
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Nicolas de Largillière]], French painter (b. [[1656]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow]], Irish politician (b. [[1685]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[William Tennent]], Scottish-American theologian (b. [[1673]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[James Drummond, 3rd Duke of Perth]], British noble (b. [[1713]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Thomas Southerne]], Irish playwright (b. [[1660]]) 
* [[June 14]] &ndash; [[Colin Maclaurin]], Scottish mathematician (b. [[1698]])
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Thomas Baker (antiquarian)|Thomas Baker]], English antiquarian (b. [[1656]])
[[File:Felipe V de España.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Philip V of Spain]]]]
* [[July 9]] &ndash; King [[Philip V of Spain]] (b. [[1683]])
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[John Peter Zenger]], American printer, whose court case advanced freedom of the press in the American colonies (b. [[1697]])
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Francesco Trevisani]], Italian painter (b. [[1656]])
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Christian VI of Denmark|Christian VI]], King of Denmark and Norway (b. [[1699]])
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)|Francis Hutcheson]], Irish philosopher (b. [[1694]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[St George Gore-St George]], Irish politician (b. [[1722]])
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Josiah Burchett]], English Secretary of the Admiralty (b. c. [[1666]])
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Georg Steller]], German naturalist (b. [[1709]])
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Lady Grizel Baillie]], Scottish poet (b. [[1665]])
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Charles Radclyffe]], British politician and rebel, by beheading after being convicted of treason against the Crown (b. [[1693]])