French historian (b. 1640) February 17 – Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (b. 1669) February 18 – Balthasar Permoser, German sculptor (b. 1651) February 22 Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663) Marie Thérèse de Bourbon, Princess of Conti and titular queen of Poland (b. 1666) February 27 – Giacomo Serpotta, Italian artist (b. 1652) February 28 – André Charles Boulle, French cabinet-maker (b. 1642) March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681) April 6 – Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg, Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order (b. 1664) April 28 – Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (b. 1666) May 20 – Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676) May 30 – John King, English churchman (b. 1652) July 11 – Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (b. 1659) July 15 – Woodes Rogers, English privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas (b. c. 1679) September 24 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654) October 6 – George Duckett (Calne MP), English politician (b. 1684) October 12 – Dionisia de Santa María Mitas Talangpaz, Filipino saint (b. 1691) October 25 – Andrea Brustolon, Italian artist (b. 1662) October 31 – Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (b. 1666) November 10 – Adam Christian Thebesius, German anatomist (b. 1686) November 20 – Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, French naval officer, governor of Newfoundland (b. 1661) November 21 – Jan Jansen Bleecker, Mayor of Albany, New York (b. 1641) November 26 – Charles Sergison, English politician (b. 1655) December 4 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist (b. 1685) December 14 – Johann Philipp Förtsch, German opera composer (b. 1652) date unknown Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter, calligrapher, encyclopedist, foreign diplomat to Japan (b. 1669) Agrippina Petrovna Volkonskaia, politically active Russian lady-in-waiting References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar