(d. 1789) December 1 – Franz Xaver Richter, Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician (d. 1789) December 9 – Pierre II Surette, art of the Acadian and Wabanaki Confederacy resistance against the British Empire in Acadia (d. 1789) December 14 Caspar Friedrich Hachenberg, rector of the Latin school of Wageningen, The Netherlands, and writer of Greek and Latin grammars (d. 1793) Charles Lawrence, British military officer who (d. 1760) December 18 – Elizabeth of Russia, empress regnant of Russia (d. 1762) December 21 Charles Frederick, MP (d. 1785) Arnaud-François Lefèbvre, Apostolic Vicar of Cochin (d. 1760) December 24 – Johann Evangelist Holzer, Austrian-German painter (d. 1740) Deaths January 20 – François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (b. 1624) January 22 – Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury, English politician (b. 1654) January 24 – George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650) January 26 – Eleonore Charlotte of Saxe-Lauenburg-Franzhagen, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen (b. 1646) February 8 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (b. 1658) February 9 – François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (b. 1664) February 11 – Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate, German artist (b. 1622) February 17 – Erik Benzelius the Elder, Swedish theologian (b. 1632) February 19 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1646) March 9 – Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat March 21 – Burchard de Volder, Dutch mathematician (b. 1643) April 1 – Henri Jules, Prince of Condé (b. 1643) April 2 – Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Italian artist working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods (b. 1639) April 5 – Roger de Piles, French painter (b. 1635) April 8 – Wolfgang Dietrich of Castell-Remlingen, German nobleman (b. 1641) April 20 – Johann Ernst von Thun, Tyrolean Catholic bishop (b. 1643) April 21 Gurgin Khan (George XI of Kartli), Persian Governor of Kandahar (b. 1651) Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano, Prince of Savoy (b. 1628) June 25 – Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach from 1677 until his death (b. 1647) June 29 – Antoine Thomas, Belgian Jesuit astronomer in China (b. 1644) June 30 – Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660) July 17 – Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646) August 24 – Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, German princess (b. 1640) August 31 – Andrea Pozzo, Jesuit Brother, architect and painter (b. 1642) September 4 – Jean-François Regnard, French comic poet (b. 1655)