(d. 1800) November 9 – Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770) November 22 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman (d. 1824) December 6 James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (d. 1809) Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794) December 27 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (d. 1790) December 29 – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1764) Date unknown - Im Yunjidang, Korean scholar, writer and neo-Confucian philosopher (d. 1793) Deaths January 25 – Robert Challe, French colonialist (b. 1659) January 26 – Pierre Daniel Huet, French churchman and scholar (b. 1630) February 5 – Abraham Hill, British merchant (b. 1633) February 5 –James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, English chief minister (b. 1673) February 16 – James Craggs the Younger, English politician (b. 1686) February 24 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648) March 16 – James Craggs the Elder, English politician (b. 1657) March 19 – Pope Clement XI (b. 1649) March 29 – Charles Vane, English pirate, executed (b. 1680) April 14 – Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652) April 27 – Eva von Buttlar, German mystic sectarian (b. 1670) April 28 – Mary Read, English-born pirate (b. c. 1695) May 7 – Zinat-un-Nissa, princess of the Mughal Empire (b. 1643) May 8 – Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1652–1721), French politician (b. 1652) May 10 – Christian William I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1666–1720) (b. 1647) June 3 – Joaquín Canaves, Spanish Catholic bishop (b. 1640) June 18 – Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal, son of William VI (b. 1655) July 8 – Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649) July 18 – Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684) July 19 – Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet, British bishop (b. 1650) July 26 – Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, French noble (b. 1636) August 3 – Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648) August 13 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b. 1665) September 3 – Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1663) September 6 – Georg Wolfgang Wedel, German physician, surgeon, botanist, chemist and philosopher (b. 1645) September 8 Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686) Henri Arnaud, French Waldensian pastor, leader (b. 1641) September 9 – David Martin, French theologian (b. 1639) September 11 – Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician