1736) date unknown – Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie, Swedish salonnière (d. 1745) Cai Wan, politically influential Chinese poet (d. 1755) Deaths January–March January 4 – François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Marshal of France (b. 1628) January 6 – Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp (b. 1641) January 11 – Nizel Rivers, Member of Parliament of England (b. 1614) January 16 – Hans Adam Weissenkircher, Austrian painter (b. 1646) January 26 – Johann Jakob Wepfer, Swiss pathologist (b. 1620) January 27 – Francesco Nasini, Italian painter (b. 1611) January 29 Paul Hermann, German botanist (b. 1646) Diego Sarmiento Valladares, Spanish bishop (b. 1611) February 6 Ahmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1691 to 1695 (b. 1643) Ahmed II of Turkey (b. 1643) February 11 John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston, English politician (b. 1616) Abraham Hinckelmann, German theologian (b. 1652) February 14 – Georg von Derfflinger, field marshal in the army of Brandenburg-Prussia (b. 1606) February 18 – Sir William Phips, First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1651) February 24 – Johann Ambrosius Bach, German musician, father to Johann Sebastian Bach (b. 1645) March 4 – Philip Sherard, English politician (b. 1623) March 5 – Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664) March 6 – Everhard Jabach, German private banker (b. 1618) March 12 – Cristoval Royas de Spinola, Spanish bishop and diplomat (b. 1626) March 15 – Rutger von Langerfeld, Dutch painter and architect (b. 1635) March 23 – Adam Perelle, French draughtsman and painter (b. 1640) March 25 – Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł, margravine consort of Brandenburg (b. 1667) March 26 George Nevill, 12th Baron Bergavenny, English noble (b. 1665) Jan Karol Opaliński, Polish starost and kasztelan of Poznań (b. 1642) March 28 – William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry, British politician (b. 1637) March 30 – Anselm Franz von Ingelheim, Archbishop of Mainz (b. 1634) April–June April 3 – Melchior d'Hondecoeter, painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1636) April 5 – George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer and statesman (b. 1633) April 6 – Richard Busby, English clergyman (b. 1606) April 12 – Jean-Baptiste Corneille, French historical painter, etcher, and engraver (b. 1649) April 13 Petrus Draghi Bartoli, roman-catholic patriarch (b. 1646) Jean de La Fontaine, French poet, fabulist and writer (b. 1621) April 15 Christoph Arnold, German astronomer (b. 1650) Claude Lancelot, French monk and grammarian