1677) February 8 – Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (b. 1682) February 11 – Philip Livingston, American politician (b. 1686) April 14 – Balthasar Denner, German artist (b. 1685) May 11 – Catharine Trotter Cockburn, English novelist, dramatist, and philosopher (b. 1674) May 28 – Pierre Subleyras, French painter (b. 1699) June 18 – Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1675) July 1 – William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675) July 12 Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of New France (b. c.1671) George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter of England (b. 1702) July 23 – Ingeborg i Mjärhult, Swedish soothsayer (b. 1665) August 13 – Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic, poet (b. 1719) August 29 – Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor, polymath (b. 1684) September 10 – Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician, physicist (b. 1706) September 14 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier, politician (b. 1675) October 4 – Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711) October 9 – Luís da Cunha, Ambassador of Portugal (b. 1662) November 14 – Maruyama Gondazaemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1713) November 19 – Carl Heinrich Biber, German violinist and composer (b. 1681) December 4 – Claudine Guérin de Tencin, French salon holder (b. 1682) December 5 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, French-Canadian explorer and trader (b. 1685) December 19 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672) December 25 – John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford, British Army general (b. 1702) date unknown – Maria Oriana Galli-Bibiena, Italian painter (b. 1656) References