Editing 1749 (section)

== Deaths ==
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Françoise-Marie de Bourbon]], youngest daughter of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] (b. [[1677]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Jan van Huysum]], Dutch painter (b. [[1682]])
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Philip Livingston (1686-1749)|Philip Livingston]], American politician (b. [[1686]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Balthasar Denner]], German artist (b. [[1685]])
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Catharine Trotter Cockburn]], English novelist, dramatist, and philosopher (b. [[1674]]) 
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Pierre Subleyras]], French painter (b. [[1699]])
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Ambrose Philips]], English poet (b. [[1675]])
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[William Jones (mathematician)|William Jones]], Welsh mathematician (b. [[1675]])<ref>{{cite DWB |title=JONES, WILLIAM (1675?-1749), mathematician |id=s-JONE-WIL-1675 |access-date=27 October 2021}}</ref>
* [[July 12]]
** [[Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois]], Governor of New France (b. c.[[1671]])
** [[George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter]] of England (b. [[1702]])
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[Ingeborg i Mjärhult]], Swedish soothsayer (b. [[1665]])
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Johann Elias Schlegel]], German critic, poet (b. [[1719]])
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Matthias Bel]], Hungarian pastor, polymath (b. [[1684]])
[[File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Émilie du Châtelet]]]]
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Émilie du Châtelet]], French mathematician, physicist (b. [[1706]])
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham]], English soldier, politician (b. [[1675]])
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Baron Franz von der Trenck]], Austrian soldier (b. [[1711]])
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Luís da Cunha]], Ambassador of Portugal (b. [[1662]])
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Maruyama Gondazaemon]], Japanese sumo wrestler (b. [[1713]])
* [[November 19]] &ndash; [[Carl Heinrich Biber]], German violinist and composer (b. [[1681]])
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[Claudine Guérin de Tencin]], French salon holder (b. [[1682]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye]], French-Canadian explorer and trader (b. [[1685]])
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Francesco Antonio Bonporti]], Italian priest and composer (b. [[1672]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford]], British Army general (b. [[1702]])
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Maria Oriana Galli-Bibiena]], Italian painter (b. [[1656]])