1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808) December 12 – Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (d. 1816) December 13 – Franz Aepinus, German scientist (d. 1802) December 18 – Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1751) December 24 – Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician, naturalist (d. 1811) December 25 – John Michell, English scientist and geologist (d. 1793) December 28 – Christoph Franz von Buseck, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (d. 1805) December 30 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (d. 1805) Date unknown Marie Anne Victoire Pigeon, French mathematician (d. 1767) James MacLaine, Irish highwayman (d. 1750) Deaths January 20 – William Lowndes, English politician (b. 1652) February 19 – Pieter Schuyler, British colonial military leader, acting governor of New York (b. 1657) March 4 – Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach, duchess by marriage of Württemberg-Winnental (b. 1663) March 7 – Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655) March 10 – Urban Hjärne, Swedish chemist (b. 1641) March 15 – Regent Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours (b. 1644) March 19 – Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham, English politician (b. 1655) March 31 – Sophia of Saxe-Weissenfels, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. 1654) April 28 – Streynsham Master, English colonial administrator (b. 1640) May 3 – John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662) May 21 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, English statesman (b. 1661) June – Magdelaine Chapelain, French fortune teller and poisoner (b. 1651) June 11 – Ludovico Sabbatini, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1650) June 15 – Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674) June 24 – Johann Theile, German composer and organist (b. 1646) July 1 – Johann Homann, German cartographer (b. 1664) July 2 – Thomas Maule, prominent Quaker in colonial Salem (b. 1645) July 13 – Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet, British politician (b. 1656) July 31 – Claude de Ramezay, Canadian politician (b. 1659) August 2 – Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont, Scottish statesman (b. 1641) August 6 – Samson Wertheimer, European rabbi (b. 1658) August 21 – Noël Alexandre, French theologian and ecclesiastical historian (b. 1639) August 24 – Andreas Kneller, German organist and composer (b. 1649) August 31 – King Louis I of Spain (b. 1707) October 2 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644) October 18 – Jean de Hautefeuille, French cleric,