(b. 1649) February 26 – Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1662) March 5 – Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician March 6 – Henrietta Catharina, Baroness von Gersdorff, German noblewoman; poet (b. 1648) March 13 – Alexander Pendarves, British politician (b. 1662) March 14 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhonsale 2nd, 5th Maratha Emperor (b. 1696) March 26 – John Vanbrugh, English architect and dramatist (b. 1664) April 26 – Jeremy Collier, English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (b. 1650) April 28 – Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653) May 10 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (b. 1670) June 18 – Michel Richard Delalande, French organist, composer (b. 1657) July 3 – Galeazzo Marescotti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1627) July 8 – John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673) July 22 – Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia July 31 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695) September 22 – Aixinjueluo Yuntang, born Aixinjueluo Yintang, Qing prince (b. 1683) October 29 – Jean Boivin the Younger, French writer (b. 1663) November 22 – Anton Domenico Gabbiani, Italian painter (b. 1652) November 23 – Sophia Dorothea of Celle, queen consort of George I of Great Britain (b. 1666) December 2 – Samuel Penhallow, American colonist, historian (b. 1665) References