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== Deaths ==
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Lord George Graham]], Royal Navy officer and MP (b. [[1715]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Barthold Heinrich Brockes]], German poet (b. [[1680]])<ref>{{cite book|title=German Baroque Writers, 1661-1730|publisher=Gale Research|year=1996|page=62}}</ref>
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Willem van Mieris]], Dutch painter (b. [[1662]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Margravine Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth]], German noble (b. [[1713]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg]], German aristocrat and general (b. [[1661]])
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst]], father of [[Catherine II of Russia]] (b. [[1690]])
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Claude Alexandre de Bonneval]], French soldier (b. [[1675]])
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Johann Jacob Dillenius]], German botanist (b. [[1684]])
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Francesco Solimena]], Italian painter (b. [[1657]])
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau]], Prussian field marshal (b. [[1676]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat]], Scottish clan chief (b. c. [[1667]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Jean-Frédéric Osterwald]], Swiss Protestant pastor (b. [[1663]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair]], Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. [[1673]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues]], French writer (b. [[1715]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Martin Fine|title=Vauvenargues and La Rochefoucauld|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5327AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1|year=1974|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-0588-6|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Andrei Osterman]], Russian statesman (b. [[1686]])
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton]], English cricketer (b. [[1702]])
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[Avdotya Chernysheva]], Russian noble, [[lady in waiting]] (b. [[1693]])
[[File:NaderShahPainting.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Nader Shah]]]]
* [[June 19]] 
** [[Nader Shah]], Persian leader (b. [[1688]])
** [[Alessandro Marcello]], Italian composer (b. [[1669]])
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Bononcini]], Italian composer (b. [[1670]])<ref>{{cite web|author=Frajese, Carlo |year=1970 |url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-bononcini_%28Dizionario_Biografico%29/|title=Bononcini, Giovanni|website=[[Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani]], Vol. 12|access-date=2 October 2015}} {{in lang|it}}.</ref>
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[Giulia Lama]], Italian painter (b. [[1681]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gaze |first1=Delia |title=Concise Dictionary of Women Artists |date=2001 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-57958-335-4 |page=438 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V4h7A0XIN14C&pg=PA438 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[David Brainerd]], American missionary (b. [[1718]])
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[John Potter (Archbishop)|John Potter]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. c. [[1674]])
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Amaro Pargo]], Spanish corsair (b. [[1678]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Alain-René Lesage]], French writer (b. [[1668]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles F. Partington|title=The British Cyclopedia of Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eLkTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA188|year=1838|pages=188}}</ref>
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Vincent Bourne]], English classical scholar (b. [[1695]])