Bouillon, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1643) March 17 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (b. 1643) March 18 – William Fraser, 12th Lord Saltoun, (b.1654) March 27 – August, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig, German prince (b. 1655) April 6 – Perizonius, Dutch linguist (b. 1651) April 16 – Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1679) May 8 – Marie Mancini, Italian courtier, third of the five Mancini sisters (b. 1639) May 19 – Charles Montagu, English Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661) May 21 – Pierre Magnol, French botanist (b. 1638) May 30 – Roeloff Swartwout, American city founder in New York (b. 1634) June 19 – Nicolas Lemery, French chemist (b. 1645) June 25 – Jean-Baptiste du Casse, French admiral and buccaneer (b. 1646) July 5 – Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1659) July 28 – Jakub Kresa, Czech mathematician (b. 1648) July 30 – Nahum Tate, Irish poet (b. 1652) August 21 – Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German countess (b. 1660) September 1 François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628) King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638) September 24 – Wilhelm Homberg, Dutch alchemist (b. 1652) October 13 – Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638) October 14 – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636) October 15 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (b. 1675) October 17 – Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (b. 1655) October 30 – Juliane Louise of East Frisia, Princess of East Frisia (b. 1657) October 31 – Elisha Cooke, Sr., Massachusetts colonial politician and judge (b. 1637) November – Mirwais Hotak, Pashtun emir, and founder of the Hotaki Dynasty (b. 1673) November 24 – Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1636) December 9 – Benedetto Gennari II, Italian painter (b. 1633) December 15 – George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642) December 28 William Carstares, Scottish clergyman (b. 1649) Joanna Koerten, Dutch painter (b. 1650) date unknown – Elizabeth Boutell, British stage actor (b. 1650) References