Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (b. 1667) January 22 – Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675) January 23 – Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian and scholar (b. 1672) January 26 – Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686) January 29 – Sophia Schröder, Swedish soprano (b. 1712) February 7 – Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset (b. 1684) February 8 – Aaron Hill, English writer (b. 1685) February 19 – Jan Frans van Bredael, Flemish painter (b. 1686) March 6 – Domenico Montagnana, Italian luthier (b. 1686) March 29 – James Jurin, British mathematician, doctor (b. 1684) April 7 – George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington, British Army general (b. 1701) May 3 – John Willison, Scottish minister, writer (b. 1680) May 17 – Georg Engelhard Schröder, Swedish artist (b. 1684) May 28 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720) June 15 – Marguerite de Launay, baronne de Staal, French author (b. 1684) July 15 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman, ethnographer (b. 1686) July 28 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685) Conyers Middleton, English minister (b. 1683) July 31 – King John V of Portugal (b. 1689) August 8 – Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, English aristocrat, philanthropist and cricket patron (b. 1701) August 12 – Rachel Ruysch, Dutch painter (b. 1664) September 15 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690) October 3 Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian composer (b. 1717) James MacLaine, Irish highwayman (b. 1724) October 16 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer, lutenist (b. 1687) November 1 – Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1705) December 1 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671) December 13 – Philemon Ewer, English shipbuilder (b. 1702) December 16 Nasir Jang Mir Ahmad, son of Turkic noble Nizam-ul-Mulk (b. 1712) Nasir Jung, Head of Hyderabad State (b. 1712) References Further reading