Joybert, politically active Canadian governors' wife (b. 1673) January 5 – Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1667) January 17 – Matthias Buchinger, German artist (b. 1674) January 20 – Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli, Italian jurist of religious law and historian (b. 1655) January 21 – Nicholas Trott, colonial magistrate, South Carolina Chief Justice (b. 1663) January 27 – Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692) January 29 – Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough (b. 1686) February 6 – Pope Clement XII (b. 1652) February 23 – Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Italian artist (b. 1656) February 29 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (b. 1667) March 23 – Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish scientist and explorer (b. 1660) April 28 – Bajirao I, Great Maratha warrior and Prime Minister of Marartha Empire (b.1700) April 23 – Thomas Tickell, English writer (b. 1685) May 17 – Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (b. 1681) May 31 – Frederick William I, King in Prussia (b. 1688) June 1 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657) June 6 – Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony (b. 1676) June 17 Theophilus of Corte, Italian Roman Catholic priest, preacher and missionary, canonized (b. 1676) William Wyndham, English politician (b. 1687) June 18 – Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoye, Anglo-Irish nobleman (b. 1652) July 2 – Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656) October 5 – Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721) October 11 – Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst, Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (b. 1679) October 20 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685) October 28 – Anna, Empress of Russia (b. 1693) December 1 – John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (b. 1680) December 20 – Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, British military officer and statesman (b. 1675) December 30 – John Senex, English geographer (b. ca. 1678) References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar