writer and dramatist (b. 1651) June 4 – Léopold Clément, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine, French prince (b. 1707) June 8 – Isaac Chayyim Cantarini, Italian rabbi (b. 1644) June 14 – Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford, English politician (b. 1644) July 14 – Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640) July 26 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660) July 28 – Mariana Alcoforado, Portuguese nun (b. 1640) August 4 – William Fleetwood, Anglican bishop (b. 1656) August 10 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal, statesman (b. 1656) August 14 – Edward Northey (barrister), British barrister and politician (b. 1652) August 17 – Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668) August 21 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian linguist and scholar (b. 1673) August 23 – Increase Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1639) August 26 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632) September 19 – Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton, English diplomat (b. 1662) October 1 – Frédéric Maurice Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne, French prince (b. 1702) October 10 – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. c. 1665) October 13 – Praskovia Saltykova, Russian tsarina (b. 1664) October 19 – Godfrey Kneller, German-born artist (b. 1646) October 28 – Christopher Vane, 1st Baron Barnard, English politician and peer (b. 1653) October 31 – Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642) November 19 – Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and statesman (b. 1632) December 1 – Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist, actress (b. 1669) December 2 – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (b. 1674) December 7 – Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (b. 1677) December 20 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician, botanist (b. 1652) References