published the first Estonian-language Bible in 1739 (d. 1757) November 24 – Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman, extensive landowner, Privy Counsellor, Vice Admiral of Scotland (d. 1778) November 28 – Charlotta Frölich, Swedish agronomist (d. 1770) December 2 – Oliver Legipont, German Benedictine bibliographer (d. 1758) December 6 – Anthony Mooyart, acting Governor of Ceylon during the Dutch period in Ceylon (d. 1767) December 9 – Mark Hiddesley, Anglican churchman (d. 1773) December 20 – Paul Fourdrinier, English engraver (d. 1758) December 21 – Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton, powerful Jacobite politician (d. 1731) December 24 – William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (d. 1779) December 25 – Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch engraver and the son of the artist and biographer Arnold Houbraken (d. 1780) December 26 – Filippo della Valle, Italian late-Baroque or early Neoclassic sculptor (d. 1768) December 27 – Vlaho Kabužić, Ragusan nobleman and diplomat (d. 1750) date unknown Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (d. 1761) William Moraley, English-American indentured servant and autobiographer, a primary source for life in the Province of Pennsylvania (d. 1762) Baal Shem Tov, Polish rabbi and founder of the Hasidic movement of Judaism. Deaths January–March January 10 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French ecclesiastical historian (b. 1637) January 15 Girolamo Borghese, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pienza (1668–1698) (b. 1616) Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, Anglo-Irish nobleman, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, Cavalier (b. 1612) January 17 – Moyse Charas, apothecary in France during the reign of Louis XIV (b. 1619) January 20 – Giannicolò Conti, Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1617) January 22 – Frederick Casimir Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia (b. 1650) January 23 – Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1629) February 9 – Francis Bernard, English apothecary (b. 1628) February 16 – Sir James Rushout, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1644) February 21 – Rowland Thomas, English colonist of Springfield, Massachusetts, selectman, stonemason, surveyor, and proprietor (b. 1621) March 2 – Jacques Quétif, French Dominican and noted bibliographer (b. 1618) March 6 – Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1619) March 14 – Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622) March 16 – Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Danish countess (b. 1621) April–June April 6 – Mechtilde of the Blessed Sacrament, French nun (b. 1614) April 9 – Charles d'Albert d'Ailly, French diplomat (b. 1625) April 11 – Charles Morton,