8 – Anton de Haen, Austrian physician of Dutch ancestry (d. 1776) December 12 Peter Kemble, American politician from the colonial period, President of the New Jersey Provincial Council from 1745 to 1776 (d. 1789) Sir Edward Knatchbull, 7th Baronet (d. 1789) December 26 – Lord George Beauclerk, British Army officer (d. 1768) December 29 – Martha Daniell Logan, American botanist (d. 1779) December 31 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, German organist (d. 1761) Deaths January–March January 4 – Giambattista Spinola, Italo-Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1615) January 8 – Lorenzo Bellini, Italian physician, anatomist (b. 1643) January 21 Francisco de la Puebla González, Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Santiago de Chile (1694–1704) (b. 1643) Willem Bastiaensz Schepers, Dutch admiral (b. 1619) January 26 – Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (b. 1627) February 2 – Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (b. 1661) February 8 – Johann Philipp Jeningen, German Roman Catholic priest from Eichstätt in Bavaria (b. 1642) February 18 – Johann Philipp d'Arco (b. 1652) February 21 – John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen, German prince, ancestor of the cadet branch of the royal family of Bavaria (b. 1638) February 23 Steven Blankaart, Dutch entomologist (b. 1650) Georg Muffat, German composer (b. 1645) Henry Noris, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1631) February 24 – Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (b. 1643) February 25 – Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer (b. 1620) March 1 – Joseph Parrocel, French Baroque painter (b. 1646) March 6 – Giuseppe Cei, Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Cortona (1695–1704) (b. 1640) March 16 – Deane Winthrop, 6th son of Governor John Winthrop (b. 1623) March 17 – Menno van Coehoorn, Dutch military engineer (b. 1641) March 31 – Christian Stockfleth, Norwegian civil servant and diplomat (b. 1639) April–June April 5 – Christian Ulrich I, Duke of Württemberg-Oels, German nobleman (b. 1652) April 8 Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624) Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English politician and army officer (b. 1641) April 10 – Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629) April 12 – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and theologian (b. 1627) April 14 Thomas Fitch, founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut (b. 1612) Henderson Walker, Acting Deputy Governor of North Carolina from 1699 to 1704 (b. 1659) April 15 – Johannes Hudde, Dutch mathematician and mayor of Amsterdam (b. 1628) April 17 – Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, leading Norwegian