Editing 1748 (section)

== Deaths ==
[[File:William Kent.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William Kent]]]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Johann Bernoulli]], Swiss mathematician (b. [[1667]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Arnold Drakenborch]], Dutch classical scholar (b. [[1684]])
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun]], Austrian field marshal (b. [[1677]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine]], French noblewoman, Princess of Epinoy by marriage (b. [[1664]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[George Wade]], British military leader (b. [[1673]])
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Johann Gottfried Walther]], German music theorist, organist and composer (b. [[1684]])
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Empress Xiaoxianchun]] of Qing dynasty (b. [[1712]])
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[William Kent]], English architect (b. c. [[1685]])
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Shah]], Mughal emperor of India (b. [[1702]])
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Thomas Lowndes (astronomer)|Thomas Lowndes]], British astronomer (b. [[1692]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Henri, Duke of Elbeuf]], member of the House of Lorraine (b. [[1661]])
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Jean Philippe d'Orléans]], illegitimate son of future French regent [[Philippe II, Duke of Orléans|Philippe d'Orleans]] (b. [[1702]])
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Marretje Arents]], Dutch rebel leader (b. [[1712]])
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[James Thomson (poet, born 1700)|James Thomson]], Scottish poet (b. [[1700]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Trevor Royle|title=Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SDJdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA300|date=11 November 1984|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-07587-4|pages=300}}</ref>
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Edmund Gibson]], English jurist (b. [[1669]])
* [[September 10]] &ndash; Mother [[Ignacia del Espíritu Santo]], Filipino founder of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary (b. [[1663]])
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Anne Bracegirdle]], English actress (b. c. [[1671]])
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[John Balguy]], English philosopher (b. [[1686]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Hurd|title=The Early Letters of Bishop Richard Hurd, 1739-1762|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zTNQLZxFIKgC&pg=PR20|year=1995|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-0-85115-653-8|pages=20}}</ref>
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Isaac Watts]], English hymn writer (b. [[1674]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Isaac Watts|title=The Beauties of the Late Revd. Dr. Isaac Watts; ... To which is Added the Life of the Author|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2vCS6CIbOpEC&pg=PR12|year=1782|publisher=G. Kearsley|pages=12}}</ref>
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset]], English politician (b. [[1662]])