landscape painter (d. 1793) December December 4 – Gasparo Gozzi, Venetian critic and dramatist (d. 1786) December 9 – Abraham Bäck, physician (d. 1795) December 10 – Johann Nicolaus Mempel, German composer and musician (d. 1747) December 13 – John Baptist Caryll, third Jacobite Baron Caryll of Durford (d. 1788) December 14 – Martin Knutzen, German philosopher (d. 1751) December 15 – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, English politician (d. 1802) December 17 – Antoine-Noé de Polier de Bottens, Swiss theologian (d. 1783) December 19 – Jonathan Toup, British philologist (d. 1785) December 23 – Maruyama Gondazaemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1749) December 27 – Giovanni Battista Borra, Italian architect and engineer (d. 1770) December 29 André-Joseph Blavier, Belgian composer (d. 1782) Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762) Herman Petersen, Swedish merchant (d. 1765) Deaths January January 1 Giovanni Francesco Negroni, Italian cardinal (b. 1629) Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1649) January 2 – Lady Mary Butler, British noble; (b. 1689) January 5 – Jean Chardin, French jeweler, traveler and author (b. 1643) January 8 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1653) January 11 – Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (b. 1637) January 12 – John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery, Governor of Jamaica, President of the British Royal Society (b. 1639) January 20 – Pavao Ritter Vitezović, Croatian writer, historian, linguist and publisher (b. 1652) January 26 – Scrope Howe, 1st Viscount Howe, English politician (b. 1648) February February 1 – Michael II Apafi, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1676) February 2 – Marko Mesić, Croatian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1640) February 3 – William Milman, English lawyer (b. 1650) February 4 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (b. 1671) February 11 – Zulfiqar Khan Nusrat Jung, Nawab of the Carnatic (b. 1657) February 12 Florence MacMoyer, last hereditary keeper of the Book of Armagh, (b. 1630) Jahandar Shah, Mughal emperor (b. 1661) Michele Antonio Vibò, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Turin, Apostolic Internuncio to France (b. 1630) February 14 Louis Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (b. 1663) William Harrison, English poet and diplomat (b. 1685) February 15 – Carlo Vigarani, Italian scenic designer (b. 1637) February 25 – King Frederick I of Prussia (b. 1657) February 26 – William Paget, 6th Baron Paget, English peer and ambassador (b. 1637) February 28 – Samuel Whiting Jr., American clergyman 1633–1713